Blowing both ways

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 24, 2007

David Hurst in the Altoona Mirror on Big Wind and Big Government. It looks like the wind energy companies have hired “Mr. Bring-home-the-bacon” Bob Jubelirer to bring home the…

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Is PA Government the Worst?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 21, 2007

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story on a Tim Potts presentation on taking Pennsylvania from “worst in the nation” to “best in the nation” in terms of good government. Unfortunately, spokesmen…

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Pat Toomey on “Transportation” Earmarks

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 21, 2007

Club for Growth President (and Commonwealth Foundation board member) Pat Toomey in National Review Online on the number of pork projects in the federal transportation funding bill…

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OECD report on Biofuels

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 20, 2007

The recent OECD report on biofuels is a must read for lawmakers consider Governor’s plan to mandate ethanol use and to subsidize ethanol production in PA: The…

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Interstate 80 toll foes drive on capital

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 20, 2007

Patriot News on the growing push to repeal Act 44. More from the Commonwealth Foundation on repealing Act 44 here and here.

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House Democrats fight probe of bonus payments

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 20, 2007

Patriot News on House Democrats’ taxpayer-funded lawsuit to limit the taxpayer-funded investigation into whether taxpayer-funded bonuses were handed out illegally.

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The Politics of Ethanol

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 19, 2007

NY Times article on The High Costs of Ethanol. If the typically liberal NY Times opposes the political games of ethanol, why does Governor Rendell continue to push…

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Republicans Can Win on Health Care

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 18, 2007

Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal on some free market health care reforms. While Rove’s prescription contains much of the same reforms we suggested here and…

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Legislation on building wind farms encouraged

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 18, 2007

Patriot News Article on the debate over wind as a viable energy alternative. The headline is somewhat misleading, as the primary focus is on groups “encouraging” legislation that would…

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