Government Accountability

4 Bills In 5 Months

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 6, 2007

WGAL (NBC 8) with a story on the sluggish pace of the full time Pennsylvania legislature. So far this year, they have passed only 4 bills – two renaming…

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What Taxpayers are buying Mark Cohen

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 6, 2007

Two Philadelphia Inquirer stories today highlight the use of tax money by Rep. Mark Cohen. The first details how he billed 3 weekends in N.Y. to taxpayers to attend…

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MO’s Free-Market Health Care Reform

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 5, 2007

The state of Missouri has become to the first to enact a number of free-market reforms in health care – many of which are needed in Pennsylvania. This legislation:…

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Open-Records Bill Strengthened

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 5, 2007

Sen. Pileggi has announced that he will amend his open records bills (SB1) to change the presumption – i.e. all government records will be considered public information unless specifically exempted…

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Bill targets teacher strikes

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 4, 2007

Rep. Todd Rock will be introducing a bill that will ban teacher strikes and fine teachers for each day they strike illegally. This legistlation is supported by StopTeacherStrikes.org.

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Term limits crash

  • June 3, 2007

Brad Bumsted of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review notes the irony of how the day after lawmakers beat up the idea of term limits that a poll came out showing overwhelming…

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Budget stalls over spending disputes

  • June 3, 2007

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the how lawmakers could be in for a long summer. Tune in this coming week to THE BOX where the Budget will be the topic…

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Voters not getting say on school tax hikes

  • June 3, 2007

Philadelphia Inquirer story on why we need to take Step #2 of the Pennsylvania Diet Plan. If the public schools are the community’s schools, why shouldn’t the communty…

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