Video: Turnpike Lease Q&A

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 11, 2008

Video from yesterday’s luncheon on leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike is below (or click here) For additional information, our Policy Brief on the Turnpike lease is here (it…

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Education

Putting Children Last

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 11, 2008

The Wall Street Journal blasts efforts by Democrats—coerced by the teacher’s unions—to end the DC Opportunity Scholarship program, a program which saves kids from failing schools and…

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Taxes & Economy

Movin’ Out/Migration Resource and Data

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 11, 2008

Here are some resource and links related to my commentary on interstate migration: Census Data and migration report United Van Lines Data and…

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Regulation

Will MacGyver rescue the smoking ban?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 10, 2008

John Micek thinks the Senate Dems plan to pass a smoking ban that includes everything the conference committee bill did, plus exemptions so Scranton and Pittsburgh could pass their own…

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Tolling I-80 not a matter of “fairness”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 10, 2008

A reader asked for a response to comments Sen. Sean Logan has been making about Turnpike lease revenue and the need to toll I-80 for “fairness”. (See Logan’s Morning…

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Public Union Democracy

Right to Work states have higher growth

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 10, 2008

The Union Label blog looks at economic growth differences between right to work and forced unionism state.

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Taxes & Economy

Is the minimum wage behind higher unemployment?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 9, 2008

Mark Perry makes the case that the recent uptick in unemployment in the US is partially due to the increase in the federal minimum wage (and the pending increase…

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Government Accountability

Legislators controlling redistricting are like alcoholics tending bar

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 9, 2008

John Baer’s latest column blasts legislators who are killing reform – in particular redistricting – for their own self-interest: And who can forget Speaker Emeritus John Perzel winning…

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No toll limit

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 9, 2008

My letter to the editor in the Patriot News on Turnpike tolls under the lease vs. under Act 44: Charles Thompson’s May 25 article, “For drivers, it’s just…

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