EZ Come, EZ Go! at the Turnpike Commission

  • June 30, 2008

The second episode of PIKE TV, EZ Come, EZ Go!, looks at how the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is spending your toll dollars … and its not just…

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Leasing the turnpike is a better way for Pa

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 30, 2008

Former PA Transporation Secretary (and Turnpike Commissioner) Howard Yerusalim on the Turnpike lease in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Already, similar public-private lease arrangements are working in Indiana and the…

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State Budget

Budget Deal Reached

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 30, 2008

While taxpayers and state workers slept, lawmakers shook hands on a budget deal. John Micek has some of the details, as does the Patriot News. General Fund budget:…

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Taxes & Economy

Congressional Guardian of Worker Freedom Rankings

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 28, 2008

Alliance for Worker Freedomhas released an index rating members of Congress by their votes on worker freedom or for the big labor agenda. Here are the House ratings.

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Regulation

Senate passes transporation P3 bill

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 28, 2008

The Senate yesterday passed a bill allowing for Public Private Partnerships in transportation (bill text). The big Kahuna, the Turnpike lease, is exempted from the legislation, but it…

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PTC Still Stalling on I-80 Tolling

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 27, 2008

The Turnpike Commission revealed today they won’t resubmit their proposal to toll I-80 until August.  That means it will take nine months to answer the questions asked by the feds. …

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Education

The Liberace Complex?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 27, 2008

The York Daily Record has a story on the South Eastern School District paying $97,000 for – wait for it – a grand piano. I may have to…

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Government Accountability

The end of “campaign finance reform”?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 27, 2008

The Supreme Court was busy yesterday, in its second major ruling, they struck down a portion of McCain Feingold campaign finance restrictions, ruling that the “millionaire exemption” is unconstitutional.

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Taxes & Economy

Mexicans and Machines

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 27, 2008

The latest Drew Carey video on Reason TV tackles NAFTA, robots stealing jobs, and the benefits of creative descrution. I don’t know whether I laughed harder at the machines…

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