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Taxes & Economy

Free-market Gas Outshines Subsidized Solar

• Gordon Tomb
• April 9, 2013

One news story highlights hundreds of jobs lost and millions of taxpayer dollars down the drain via corporate welfare. Another celebrates millions of new state revenue and free market job…

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‘Welfare’ stigma not because of name

• April 8, 2013

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Regulation

Millions Blown in Border Bleed

• April 8, 2013

It’s time for another look at common myths opponents use against getting the government out of the booze businesses. Find more myths debunked here and here. Myth #5:…

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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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Public Union Democracy

Of Unions and “Limited Resources”

• April 5, 2013

After a lament in the American Prospect about how the Left is being outmatched and left behind in state-based advocacy, now The Nation has chimed in with its…

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How Can Education Spending Be Going Up?

• April 4, 2013

One educator wrote in response to our information on school spending, asking how we arrived at our figures. According to the PSEA, he noted, “funding HAS DECREASED under Mr.

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Your Pension Under the Governor’s Proposal

• April 4, 2013

You may have seen PSEA materials showing your pension reduced significantly under Gov. Tom Corbett’s pension reform proposal. So what does the proposal really do? For most teachers, the “multiplier”…

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

• April 4, 2013

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Taxes & Economy

Taking Wind out of the Subsidy Sail

• Gordon Tomb
• April 4, 2013

For years, you’ve heard conservatives say the wind power industry would be better off without government subsidies. But now even wind industry advocate and Tang Energy CEO Patrick Jenevin…

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Health care option mulled

• 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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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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Public Union Democracy

Union Poured Member Dues into Defeating Liquor Privatization

• Priya Brannick
• April 3, 2013

They’re a familiar sight in the state Capitol, wearing mustard-colored T-shirts emblazoned with their union’s logo. Now the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reported on how United Food and Commercial Workers…

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Education

Common Core Questions, School Choice Answers

• April 3, 2013

A new national school standard known as “Common Core” is fast becoming known for superseding state and local authority over public education curricula.  Using cutting edge data collection and…

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Regulation

Liquor Privatization: Good for Business (Except in Jersey)

• Nathan Benefield
• April 2, 2013

Ending Pennsylvania’s government liquor monopoly has some folks worried…like liquor store owners in New Jersey. Writes Jason Laday of the South Jersey Times: At any given time, on…

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Health Care

Medicaid Expansion Deals Don’t Deliver

• Elizabeth Stelle
• April 1, 2013

Time is ticking for President Obama to get more buy-in on a pivotal part of Obamacare—Medicaid expansion. States are under immense pressure to accept an influx of federal funds in…

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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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