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Fairness

Op-Ed: Gerrymandering won’t save unpopular candidates

• Nathan Benefield
• January 1, 2022

Originally published in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review With state and congressional redistricting underway in Harrisburg, many politicians have blamed “partisan gerrymandering” for past election losses. But this is another instance when the…

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Criminal Justice Reform

Op-Ed: The First Step Act Is A Giant Leap Toward Meaningful, Bipartisan Prison Reform

• Jennifer Stefano
• December 13, 2021

Criminal justice reform is not about being softer on crime. It’s about a smarter approach to our justice system and our prisons — focusing resources on protecting public safety.

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Public Union Democracy

Op-Ed: Pennsylvania Unions Ignore SCOTUS Ruling, Keep Forcing Teachers To Pay Dues

• Kevin Mooney
• December 2, 2021

Until recently, those rights had been subjugated to the commonwealth’s labor laws, which allow unions to charge nonmembers “fair share fees” as a condition of their employment.

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Education

Op-Ed: School Choice Is the Fix for Pennsylvania’s Broken Education System

• Colleen Hroncich, Stefanie Mason
• December 1, 2021

Pennsylvania’s public education system is broken, according to a lawyer in the historic education-funding lawsuit currently underway in the state’s Commonwealth Court.

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State Budget

Op-Ed: Biden’s spending binge makes Americans poorer, just before the holidays

• Jennifer Stefano
• November 23, 2021

Biden and his allies in Congress need to stop this destructive spending now.

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State Budget

Op-Ed: How the Taxpayer Protection Act would help Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• November 22, 2021

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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Energy

Op-Ed: We can keep Pennsylvania beautiful without making it poor

• Stephen Bloom
• November 18, 2021

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

• Jennifer Stefano
• November 2, 2021

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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Education

Op-Ed: Taxpayers Take School Board to Court for Trying to Silence Parents’ Criticism

• Kevin Mooney
• October 31, 2021

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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Regulation

Op-Ed: Pennsylvanians can’t afford Biden’s multi-trillion tax-and-spend plan

• Nathan Benefield
• October 30, 2021

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

• Marc LeBlond
• October 23, 2021

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

• Jennifer Stefano
• October 20, 2021

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

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 10, 2021

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

• Kevin Mooney
• October 6, 2021

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

• Jennifer Stefano (Author)
• October 1, 2021

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

• Stephen Bloom
• October 1, 2021

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

• Nathan Benefield
• September 30, 2021

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

• Jennifer Stefano
• September 27, 2021

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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Energy

Op-Ed: Climate Change Regulations in Pennsylvania: No Discernable Benefits

• Kevin Mooney
• September 10, 2021

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

• Michael Torres
• September 1, 2021

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

• Colleen Hroncich
• August 31, 2021

Amid new and recycled policies surrounding the COVID-19 Delta variant, batteles with local public school bureaucracies are intensifying.     …

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