Regulation

PLCB Spills Grapes of Wrath!

  • October 1, 2012

Wine Shrines, Kiosk Catastrophes and ethics investigations step aside (okay, hold that last one), the Kings of Cabernet have uncorked their latest mayhem of modernization, malfeasance and…

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Education

Charter Expansion Would Boost Student Learning

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 27, 2012

Priya wrote about the recent decline in state test scores and in the number of schools making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), noting seven facts union bosses don’t want you…

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Health Care

Saylor Broaches Biggest Budget Buster

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • September 26, 2012

Pensions and transportation top the list of crises the General Assembly won’t address in their short fall session, but little has been said about the biggest budget buster facing the…

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Education

5 Fixes for Property Tax Fires

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 25, 2012

Yesterday, I testified before the House Select Committee on Property Tax Reform, presenting on the best tax policy to finance government operations, and on…

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Education

Bread, Freedom and Halftime Sickles?

  • September 25, 2012

Workers of the world unite at the 50-yard line?  Apparently, that’s the tune played recently at a halftime show by the New Oxford High School Marching Band whose ” St.

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Education

7 Education Facts Unions Don’t Want You to Know!

  • Priya Brannick
  • September 25, 2012

Pennsylvania is reeling from the Friday release of student test scores for 2011-12, which show declining student performance in our public schools. Kids did worse on the Pennsylvania System…

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Education

Harrisburg’s Horrid Decade of Despair

  • September 21, 2012

With soaring crime, a city in bankruptcy and families on the financial brink, children trapped in Harrisburg School District have to wonder how bad it can really get. …

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Regulation

Pension Iceberg Grows $4 Billion

  • September 21, 2012

Pennsylvania’s ailing government worker pension system just landed taxpayers an estimated $4 billion more in unfunded pension liabilities. The Public School Employee Retirement System (PSERS)—the largest government worker pension system…

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Regulation

Simply Naked or Simply Stupid?

  • September 20, 2012

Contradictions, corruption and chaos have consistently characterized the conduct of the Kings of Cabernet.  So it should be no surprise today they renewed a kids’ contest designed to bring…

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