Taxes & Economy

Trashing Friedman’s Economics

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 16, 2008

Crain's Chicago Business speculates that “failure of the free market” and “deregulation” will harm the reputation of the University of Chicago's School of Economics and of any influenced by…

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Pennsylvania Senate GOP has Turnpike Lease Study

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 15, 2008

An analysis of potential Turnpike lease by Moody’s, commissioned the the PA Senate Transportation Committee, was released yesterday. Their findings are that a Turnpike lease might be beneficial, that…

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Government Accountability

Prizes for bloggers, citizen activists, video producers, and more

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 15, 2008

Our friends at the Sam Adams Alliance have something called The Sammies awards (with cash prizes) to encourage bloggers and citizens to get involved in political action. Here…

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Education

Charter schools produce graduates, cost less

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 15, 2008

Jay P. Greene’s blog points to a couple of recent studies on charter schools. The first one (link to full study here) shows that charter schools in Florida…

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Turnpike Commission Cutting Work Force

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 14, 2008

Following traffic and revenue declines, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission announced it will be reducing its staff size starting with a “voluntary departure program”, with layoffs to be next. Curiously,…

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Government Accountability

Free-market internship, jobs, and grant opportunities

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 14, 2008

Some good opportunities to earn money working for liberty for college students, recent graduates and young professionals, and young journalists to pass along:Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow…

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Government Accountability

Shed a little light on your government

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 14, 2008

ShowMeTheSpending.com, a project of the National Taxpayers Union (with a coalition of groups) has relaunched as a wiki (like Wikipedia) as part of the Sunshine Review…

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Government Accountability

Corruption and Potential for Reform in State Contracts

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 14, 2008

Chris Freind has a five part series in The Bulletin on conflicts of interest, corruption, and the inability to get reforms passed in how state contracts are awarded.  The…

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Taxes & Economy

RINO Season Is Now Open

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 14, 2008

Ted Nugent declares “RINOs” fair game in a poignant piece on Human Events There are really only four things I have a strong aversion to: unloaded guns,…

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