Turnpike Commission’s version of MiniTru

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 26, 2007

Turnpike Commission Vice-Chair and bond attorney Tim Carson in the Morning Call offers a rebuttal to the Brouillette-Gilroy Commentary. Carson’s editorial is as accurate as an Enron…

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The Tragedy of the Commons

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 21, 2007

John Stossel on the lost lesson of Thanksgiving: When the Pilgrims first settled the Plymouth Colony, they organized their farm economy along communal lines. The goal was to…

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The Most Important Election of Our Time

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 20, 2007

What happens when there is a tie for election? Run off? Coin Flip? Supreme Court case? Duel to the death? Rock Paper Scissors? In the case of the Wormleysburg Assessors…

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A new effort on open-records bill

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 20, 2007

Bill DeWeese is planning to push an amendment to the House open records bill, which would strengthen it, making it like the Senate bill, but applying to the…

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SEC investigation into Brimmeier?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 19, 2007

Here is a letter to SEC regional director Daniel Hawkes from Sen. Jake Corman, and the response from the SEC director. Corman questions whether or not Pennsylvania Turnpike…

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Toll criticisms mount; Better solutions exist

  • November 19, 2007

Editorial from the Williamsport SunGazette. No, we didn’t write it for them. 🙂 “When it comes to problem-solving, the I-80 toll proposal is the same old Pennsylvania government solution…

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Pa. puts a heavy stake on I-80 tolls

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 19, 2007

Good summary of the I-80 tolling situation and the concerns regarding federal approval – including noting that mass transit would get $150 million less if I-80 is not tolled…

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