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Jay-Z, MLK, and the progressive opposition to genuine reform
Originally published at Broad + Liberty It’s not often you can mention Jay-Z and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the same breath. Yet, the Brooklyn-born hip-hop mogul and the…
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A Pennsylvania Pastor Leads His Community’s Fight for Educational Freedom
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Pa. Dems education plans, spending explosion nod to teachers unions, special interests
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Op-Ed: Biden’s spending binge makes Americans poorer, just before the holidays
Biden and his allies in Congress need to stop this destructive spending now.
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Op-Ed: How the Taxpayer Protection Act would help Pennsylvania
It’s time for Pennsylvania lawmakers to return to fiscally responsible governance. Passing the Taxpayer Protection Act is the perfect place to start.
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Op-Ed: We can keep Pennsylvania beautiful without making it poor
The secret is Pennsylvania’s abundant natural gas deposit, the second largest in the world, which produces power with drastically less pollution and just half the carbon emissions of coal.
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Op-Ed: To Protect Your Nonprofit’s Growth, Protect Your Donors’ Privacy
Reporters have the right to keep their sources private. Lawyers don’t have to release their client lists. And non-political charities do not have to share the identities of their donors,…
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Op-Ed: Taxpayers Take School Board to Court for Trying to Silence Parents’ Criticism
The education bill is moving forward in Pennsylvania as a recent poll from Real Clear Opinion Research found that a strong majority of independents, Democrats, and Republicans say they support…
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Op-Ed: Pennsylvanians can’t afford Biden’s multi-trillion tax-and-spend plan
With the legislative sausage-making now underway, it’s likely Pennsylvanians would find the menu of specific tax hikes distasteful.
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Op-Ed: Michigan’s governor should follow Pennsylvania’s on school choice expansions
If Wolf, who has demonstrated allegiance to teacher unions, can sign massive school choice expansions in Pennsylvania, other governors including Whitmer should as well. Kids need it. Parents want it.
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Op-Ed: Three Pa. bills to give parents more control over their kids’ education
As a devoted James Bond fan, I rushed to see No Time to Die. I don’t usually see much of my own life in Bond’s — but this time, I…
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Op-Ed: Covid didn’t “break” parents
Few things are more sickening than the realization that something you disagree with will happen to your child and there is nothing you can do about it.
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Op-Ed: A lawyer made COVID policy for Bucks County schools
Bucks County public education officials chose to ignore local health authorities and instead followed a well-connected lawyer.
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The Vince Coglianese Show – Jennifer Stefano – 10.01.21
Vince Coglianese speaks with Jennifer Stefano, a Fellow at the Independent Women's Forum (IWF) and the Vice President of the Commonwealth Foundation.
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Op-Ed: Schools shouldn’t be political battlegrounds. Let’s make peace through educational choice
School choice policies allow some of the funding used to educate a child to follow that child to the family’s school of choice.
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Op-Ed: Pa. lawmakers can end educational chaos by passing HB 1
Educational choice policies like those in the Excellent Education for all Act (House Bill 1) empower parents.
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Op-Ed: While progressive leaders eat cake, their constituents suffer
A picture is worth a thousand words — maybe even 300,000, which was the dollar cost for a table at the Met Gala this year.
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Op-Ed: Climate Change Regulations in Pennsylvania: No Discernable Benefits
What happens next in Pennsylvania’s legal and legislative battles over proposed climate change regulations will largely depend on who controls the narrative about carbon dioxide emissions and their impact.
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Op-Ed: Main Line Madness
Parents across the country are engaging with their schools’ embrace of critical racial pedagogy, but in progressive locales like Lower Merion, pushback requires organization and cooperation among those who want…
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Op-Ed: Back-to-School Season in Pennsylvania Defined by Conflict
Amid new and recycled policies surrounding the COVID-19 Delta variant, batteles with local public school bureaucracies are intensifying. …
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Op-Ed: Climate Regulations Reach Critical Turning Point in Pennsylvania
September…
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Op-Ed: Limited government can make a comeback
For advocates of limited government, it’s easy to feel like the fight is over and the country is on the path to fiscal ruin. But such pessimism is unwarranted.
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Op-Ed: Teacher Sues Union That Demands He Pay Dues For Almost A Year After He Resigned
A Pennsylvania teachers union argues that a teacher who resigned his union membership should pay 'fair-share fees' for the entire year, even though he resigned only a few months in.
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Op-Ed: Young Pennsylvanians want to fight climate change. Our leaders want to pretend they are.
Governor Wolf’s push to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is more about appearances than real change. It’s time for Pennsylvania to instate policy that helps the environment, boosts revenue,…
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