Education

Cyber Schools Save the Best & Brightest

  • May 21, 2013

Avi Stein, a resident of Camp Hill, overcame learning disabilities and the challenges of mentoring four younger siblings to be one of only 20 Central Pennsylvania students honored with a…

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Taxes & Economy

Demanding More Dollars From Drillers

  • Gordon Tomb
  • May 20, 2013

Pennsylvania’s new drilling impact fee has not deterred special interests from demanding more money from the state’s most prolific producers of new energy. Act 13 of 2012 imposed…

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Education

From Cyber School to West Point

  • Priya Brannick
  • May 17, 2013

Hannah Tuffy, 20, is one of the first cyber school students to be accepted at the prestigious U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The accomplished Scranton native credits her success…

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Regulation

Facts Contradict Claims of Liquor Monopoly Supporters

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 16, 2013

I’ve received some email responses critical of my recent commentary on liquor privatization. These responses, unfortunately, echo many of faulty claims served up by supporters of the…

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Education

Students Excel with School Choice

  • May 16, 2013

Hannah and Alyssa will tell you that the freedom to choose a school that works for them was essential to their academic success. They are just two of the…

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Regulation

Perpetual Problems Plague PLCB

  • May 15, 2013

As Yogi Berra once quipped, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” Another year and another audit of the PLCB released by the Auditor General’s Office found mismanagement at the state…

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Regulation

Anti-Privatization Study Dismantled

  • May 15, 2013

A study frequently cited by liquor privatization opponents is soundly debunked in an article by Trevor Butterworth, a statistics guru at Forbes.com. Butterworth dismantles the methodology of the…

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Regulation

Pension Crisis Facts: Are Pension Obligation Bonds Risk Free?

  • May 15, 2013

This is the third in a series of blog posts debunking the myths surrounding Pennsylvania’s pension crisis. Pennsylvania’s two main government worker pension systems, the Public School Employee Retirement System…

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