Education

More Dollars is Not Producing More Scholars

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 30, 2009

A new report from the Math Science Partnership of Greater Philadelphia on Pennsylvania school performance (specifically the 11th grade PSSAs) across school districts finds that: Demographic factors (residents with…

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Taxes & Economy

Cap and Trade is a Rip-off

  • June 29, 2009

The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clearâ€?, said President Obama, speaking definitively on the issue of climate change, as he usually does with other issues he wants…

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Regulation

Has Gambling Reduced Property Taxes?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 29, 2009

In a press conference last week, Gov. Rendell patted himself on the back for all the property tax relief he has provided via gambling.  But John Delano of KDKA-TV in…

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Health Care

Residents: RomneyCare a Failure

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 29, 2009

Rasmussen polling finds that only 26% of Massachusetts residents think the health care reform in that state was a “success”, compared with 37% calling in a failure. The…

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State Budget

Rendell’s “Pay the Inmates, not the Guards” Strategy

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • June 26, 2009

The Morning Call’s John Micek has a follow-up article to yesterday’s revelation that inmates would be getting paid while the guards would not during the current budget impasse.

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Taxes & Economy

More Mandates=More Expensive Electricity

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • June 25, 2009

On Wednesday the Housed passed a bill to reestablish the State Energy Office, terminated in 1995. HB 287 would resurrect the office to preform vague duties like: Promote…

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State Budget

Rebutting Rendell’s Rhetoric

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 25, 2009

Rendell’s propaganda campaign continues today, with another press conference (his sixty-first, in support of legislation that does not yet exist) with tax eaters asking for more tax dollars. Rendell latest…

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