Taxes & Economy
Welfare Anti-Fraud Measures Earn Gold Medal
The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare received an award for its recent efforts to curb waste and fraud. The Council of State Governments gave DPW a 2012 Innovations Award…
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Ready for Higher Liquor Prices?
The floodgates have opened on the Lords of Liquor’s most infamous (and erroneous) claim that government-run liquor stores bring in lots of cash for the state. In reality, the PLCB…
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Superintendent Shocked Students Splitting Skidding Schools
Across Pennsylvania, newspapers are telling the celebratory story of parents and students formerly stuck in failing and violent public schools who are taking immediate advantage of new opportunity scholarships that…
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Calling Shenanigans on Liquor Union Bosses
Pennsylvania’s liquor store union bosses have been called out by Dr. Antony Davies, an associate professor at Duquesne University, and James Harrigan, a fellow of the Institute of…
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Olympic Lessons for Gold Medal Citizens
When you watch as much Olympics coverage as I do, you can learn a lot: like the size of swimming prodigy Missy Franklin’s feet (13), the weight of the tires…
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How Low Can Frackaphobes Go?
Winston Churchill once quipped that, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” If so, then natural gas drilling myths…
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Welfare Reforms Save $173 Million
Tucked away in the blizzard of budget bills at the end of June were some significant welfare reforms that not only save money, but empower the poor. Reforms in the…
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Cyber Schools Under Unfair Attack
Last week, a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on Pennsylvania’s cyber schools advanced some common myths and omitted some critical facts about how these popular schools do academically, and how they are…
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Flava Flav-style Facts Foil Dimock Disaster Drama
As Public Enemy taught my generation: Don’t believe the hype! That’s never been truer than in digesting the jaw-dropping Dimock disaster drama dumped on the Pennsylvania public…
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