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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
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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.

PA lawmakers crafting new tax loophole for private aircraft

  • April 26, 2013

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Pension posturing

  • April 24, 2013

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Letters to the editor – April 21, 2013

  • April 22, 2013

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Pa. Senate unveils transportation plan, fees would increase

  • April 18, 2013

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Knowles pushes to use liquor privatization money to fix state’s roads and bridges

  • April 17, 2013

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Tax reform boosts growth

  • April 12, 2013

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‘Welfare’ stigma not because of name

  • April 8, 2013

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Pension crisis is going to hit hard

  • April 7, 2013

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Renewables waste much, produce little: PennLive letters

  • April 5, 2013

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Guest Voice: End Pa.’s liquor monopoly

  • April 5, 2013

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Gov. Corbett mulls using private insurance to expand health care coverage

  • April 4, 2013

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State-federal meeting does not resolve Corbett’s concerns over Medicaid expansion

  • April 4, 2013

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Health care option mulled

  • April 4, 2013

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Conservative policy group takes aim at Medicaid expansion “myths”

  • April 4, 2013

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Letters to the Editor – 4/4/2013

  • April 4, 2013

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They came for liquor, and left with a proposal

  • April 1, 2013

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Liquor privatization effects on campus uncertain

  • April 1, 2013

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They came for liquor, and left with a proposal

  • March 29, 2013

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New Pennsylvania Turnpike CEO Compton vows to ‘change culture’

  • March 28, 2013

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Taxpayers, turnpike users pay price for corruption

  • March 25, 2013

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Mandatory sentences filling jails

  • March 25, 2013

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