Education

PSU: Progress Seems Underway

  • Charles Mitchell
  • April 29, 2011

On March 8, Gov. Tom Corbett started a statewide conversation about higher education through his budget address, in which he proposed significant cuts in the subsidies Pennsylvania public universities receive…

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Voice for School Choice finds New Site

  • April 29, 2011

HARRISBURG, PA  | The Commonwealth Foundation launched today the Stand Strong Senator project in response to the wave of aggressive and special interest lobbying led by the Pennsylvania State Education…

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Taxes & Economy

Orwellian Tax Speak: Call It a “Fee”

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • April 28, 2011

Call it a “fee” or call it “knockwurst” if you like, but the latest proposal for a “local impact fee” on natural gas drillers is not only still a…

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Education

When Bell Bottoms Were Cool…And PSU Charged $675

  • Charles Mitchell
  • April 28, 2011

I just sent the following to a student at Penn State who is writing a paper on Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed cuts to the subsidies our public universities receive from…

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Taxes & Economy

The Natural Gas Not-A-Tax

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • April 28, 2011

Yesterday, the Republican Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati released his much anticipated Marcellus shale Not-A-Tax “local impact fee.” The proposal would require drillers to pay a “Base Fee”…

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