Prosperity

New Year, New Taxes in Pennsylvania

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • January 15, 2025

Originally published at RealClearPennsylvania The new year is always a great opportunity to shed vices like smoking and binge eating. For state and local lawmakers, their guilty pleasure tends…

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Energy

RGGI Is Unconstitutional, Harmful, and Useless

  • André Béliveau
  • January 6, 2025

Originally published at RealClearPennsylvania The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is on the cusp of shaping the commonwealth’s economic future. The court will soon rule on the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s entry…

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Energy

We Need More Three Mile Islands

  • André Béliveau
  • December 24, 2024

Originally published at Reason Jane Fonda isn’t a nuclear expert, but she played one on TV. In the 1979 film The China Syndrome, Fonda portrayed Kimberly Wells, a vivacious news…

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Prosperity

Josh Shapiro must stand with Pa. workers and support Nippon deal

  • Andrew Lewis
  • December 19, 2024

Originally published at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Despite the blistering cold conditions and national opposition, hundreds of Pittsburgh steelworkers gathered last Thursday to support a multimillion-dollar deal to save their…

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Fairness

Give Shapiro the Election Reform He Wants and PA Needs

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • December 17, 2024

Originally published at RealClearPennsylvania The 2024 election is finally over. On December 4th, the Pennsylvania Department of State certified the results – almost one month after Election Day. And…

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Fairness

A Monopoly Is Coming—Steel Yourself for It

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • December 15, 2024

Originally published at The Wall Street Journal On U.S. Steel’s proposed merger with Nippon Steel, President Biden and President-elect Trump have listened to national union executives, not local union…

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Prosperity

Corporate welfare doesn’t work. Cutting red tape does.

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • December 11, 2024

Originally published at Broad + Liberty In 2021, Pennsylvania lawmakers created the Local Resource Manufacturing (LRM) tax credit to attract businesses to the Keystone State. Shortly after, Nacero, a…

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Fairness

Will Lori Chavez-DeRemer Respect State Labor Reforms?

  • David Osborne
  • December 9, 2024

Originally published at Delaware Valley Journal Federalism is back. However, with the recent nomination of Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary, Congress must stay true to the federal government’s…

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Public Union Democracy

How Government Unions Won in Wisconsin by Stacking Judicial Deck

  • David Osborne
  • December 9, 2024

Originally published at The Daily Signal Remember when impassioned protesters stormed a Capitol building and disrupted the democratic process?No, not the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan.

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Energy

America needs Trump to unleash natural gas

  • Andrew Lewis
  • November 29, 2024

Originally published at The Washington Examiner What should President-elect Donald Trump do on Day One? The answer is clear for Pennsylvania, where the president-elect …

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Fairness

Trump Can’t Fight Big Labor Alone. States Must Also Help

  • David Osborne
  • November 26, 2024

Originally published at National Review President-elect Donald Trump is planning a new course for federal policy — regarding everything from foreign conflicts to environmental regulations — and he’s quickly forming…

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Prosperity

Time for Shapiro to Ditch Corporate Welfare and Cut Red Tape

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • November 26, 2024

Originally published at The Philadelphia Citizen For two years, Gov. Josh Shapiro has talked about the need for government to “move at the speed of business.” Though…

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Education

Pennsylvania is Now the Bellwether on Democrats’ Future

  • Andrew Lewis
  • November 21, 2024

Originally published at RealClearPennsylvania The Keystone State was expected to be the bellwether on November 5th, and it didn’t disappoint. Not only did Donald Trump carry Pennsylvania …

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Education

Pennsylvania Democrats have no mandate—except to compromise

  • Andrew Lewis
  • November 20, 2024

Originally published at The Patriot-News Pennsylvania Democrats took a bigger shellacking than most people realize. By now, everyone knows that Republicans cleaned up in federal races. Donald…

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Education

The U.S. Department of Education against education

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • November 20, 2024

Originally published at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette More than half of students take at least one course online, and many take more. Because of overregulation from the U.S. Department of…

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State Budget

How to Fix Pennsylvania’s Looming Budget Dilemma

  • Andrew Holman
  • November 18, 2024

Originally published at RealClearPennsylvania Pennsylvanians just elected 228 state senators and representatives. These candidates-turned-lawmakers spent the past several months doing all the challenging work of campaigning: giving speeches, knocking…

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