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Taxes & Economy

Artificial costs

• March 3, 2006

Prevailing wage issue in the Patriot-News.

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Regulation

Capitolwire.com thoughts on AFSCME’s reponse to the pension study

• March 2, 2006

No problem with state pensions …that’s what David R. Fillman, Executive Director, Council 13, The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), said in a news…

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Public Union Democracy

Teachers set strike date

• March 2, 2006

Penn-Trafford’s teachers may be on the picket line…again, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. More fodder for Simon Campbell’s www.StopTeacherStrikes.com.

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Education

Black Flight

• March 2, 2006

Excellent Wall Street Journal article on what is happening in Minneaopolis where African-American families in the city’s poorest neighborhoods are choosing to leave their assigned public schools in large…

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Regulation

Pay no attention to the coming crisis.

• Nathan Benefield
• March 1, 2006

In an Alfred E Neuman-esque “What, me worry?” Council 13 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees claims there is no future pension problem in Pennsylvania. “…

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Hogging at the trough

• March 1, 2006

…in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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Regulation

EDITORIAL | Pension padding

• February 28, 2006

“Getting elected to the state’s freewheeling Legislature isn’t nearly as sweet as leaving the public body after several terms.” Read more from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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Regulation

Raw Deal for the People of Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• February 28, 2006

More coverage of our pension study in the Beaver County Times/Allegheny Times.

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Regulation

The Real War on Wal-Mart is to Expand Government

• February 28, 2006

Brendan Miniter in today’s Wall Street Journal… “Let’s first understand that the drive to enact anti-Wal-Mart legislation has very little to do with the retail giant except in two…

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