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Energy

Pennsylvania Stopped Costly Energy Taxes. But Government Mandates are Still Driving Up Electricity Bills.

  • Andrew Lewis
  • July 22, 2026

Originally published by TribLIVE. Pennsylvania families, already struggling to afford the rising cost of living, avoided even more expensive utility bills with the recently passed state budget. When Gov.

Read More: Pennsylvania Stopped Costly Energy Taxes. But Government Mandates are Still Driving Up Electricity Bills.

State Budget

Pennsylvania Avoided Tax Hikes—But Only for Now

  • Andrew Lewis
  • July 21, 2026
Read More: Pennsylvania Avoided Tax Hikes—But Only for Now
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Regulation

Government Intervention—not Free Markets—Made Your Housing and Healthcare Unaffordable

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 21, 2026
Read More: Government Intervention—not Free Markets—Made Your Housing and Healthcare Unaffordable
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Welfare

Pennsylvania’s Welfare Error Rate Is High. But New Numbers Provide Hope.

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • July 21, 2026
Read More: Pennsylvania’s Welfare Error Rate Is High. But New Numbers Provide Hope.

Scholarships offer lifeline to Pa. students

  • October 10, 2014

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Letter: School funding needs fresh ideas

  • October 10, 2014

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Philadelphia teachers will soon pay for their own health care

  • October 8, 2014

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Next Pennsylvania governor faces financial mess

  • October 8, 2014

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How Much Do We Spend On Education?

  • October 6, 2014

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As lawmakers return, the stakes are too high to play politics with pensions: Katrina Anderson

  • October 6, 2014

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Teachers Sue Union for Censoring Charitable Donations

  • October 6, 2014

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Immunizing Pennsylvania taxpayers

  • October 6, 2014

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Schoolyard Fight: Corbett, Wolf spar over the governor’s history of education funding

  • October 3, 2014

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Nathan Benefield: How to immunize Pa. taxpayers from chronic overspending

  • October 3, 2014

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Pennsylvania Decision to Expand Medicaid Could Prove Costly

  • October 3, 2014

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Barrar takes aim for 10th term

  • October 3, 2014

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State’s Medicaid expansion, Healthy PA, to begin enrollment

  • October 1, 2014

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Insurers coming back for Obamacare

  • September 29, 2014

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LETTER: Charter schools similar to public schools in diversity

  • September 23, 2014

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Stolen money? Dues and don’ts

  • September 23, 2014

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Platinum accents for the golden geese

  • September 22, 2014

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Corbett ad says Pa. media agree with him

  • September 19, 2014

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Think tanks often have corporate agendas, not citizen agendas

  • September 19, 2014

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Read More: Think tanks often have corporate agendas, not citizen agendas

The gas is here, so too are the money and jobs

  • September 19, 2014

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Read More: The gas is here, so too are the money and jobs

Lancaster County teacher sues state’s largest teachers’ union

  • September 18, 2014

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