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Government Accountability

Flava Flav-style Facts Foil Dimock Disaster Drama

• July 26, 2012

As Public Enemy taught my generation:  Don’t believe the hype!  That’s never been truer than in digesting the jaw-dropping Dimock disaster drama dumped on the Pennsylvania public…

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Dubious math on charter schools

• July 26, 2012

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Education

Who’s Eligible for PA Opportunity Scholarships?

• July 26, 2012

Just weeks ago, the Pennsylvania General Assembly and Gov. Corbett threw a major lifeline to thousands of children trapped in violent and failing public schools. Click…

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Sen. Browne comes to the rescue in the state’s fiscal crisis

• July 25, 2012

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Education

Unable to Win, Union Bosses Try to Change Election Rules

• Nathan Benefield
• July 24, 2012

My younger brother Matt and I often enjoy an intense pickup one-on-one basketball game. Being seven years older, I had the advantage for a long time. As kids, I was…

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Government Accountability

‘Shocked and Appalled’ by PLCB

• July 24, 2012

You’ve heard of shock and awe?  Well here is ‘shock and appalled,’ brought to you by the duplicitous, doublespeaking Deacons of Distilleries who are at it again, this time dumping…

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Education

Taxpayers Benefit from School Choice

• Nathan Benefield
• July 23, 2012

I had a letter to the editor in Friday’s edition of the Philadelphia Daily News on the benefits of the expansion of school choice in Pennsylvania for taxpayers…

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Health Care

Medicaid Big Threat to States

• Elizabeth Stelle
• July 23, 2012

A new study by the State Budget Crisis Task Force found Medicaid is one of the six biggest threats facing states. That should be no surprise to our readers.

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Debt mounts from state school building boom

• July 23, 2012

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Welfare

NYT Blasts Corbett, Misses Facts

• Elizabeth Stelle
• July 20, 2012

Recently, the New York Times ran an editorial that willfully neglected to mention the utter failure of more welfare spending to reduce poverty in Pennsylvania. The editorial was long on…

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Taxes & Economy

Happy Cost of Government Day 2012

• July 20, 2012

Today Pennsylvania reached its Cost of Government Day, according to Americans for Tax Reform’s annual report. In other words, it took the average Keystone worker until July 20, or…

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Taxpayers Save

• July 20, 2012

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Public Union Democracy

Unions Bankrupt Scranton, Who’s Next?

• Elizabeth Stelle
• July 19, 2012

The City of Scranton is broke. It can’t pay its employees and faces a budget deficit of about $16 million this year, thanks to a toxic combination of declining…

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Report details the six gravest threats to states’ fiscal stability

• July 19, 2012

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Disgusted by Pa. state budget

• July 18, 2012

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Regulation

Moody’s Sounds the Four Alarms

• Nathan Benefield
• July 17, 2012

Yesterday, Moody’s Investor Services downgraded Pennsylvania’s bond rating one level. The downgrade implies Pennsylvania bonds are riskier than previously assessed, and it could make it more expensive for the…

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Regulation

Map of the Day: Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities

• July 17, 2012

Pennsylvania’s government-run liquor monopoly doesn’t make citizens safer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data on alcohol-attributable deaths ranks Pennsylvania middle of the pack in terms of deaths per…

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Welfare

State Flexibility Essential to Preserving the Safety Net

• Elizabeth Stelle
• July 17, 2012

Last week, I noted a number of states whose governors were refusing the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act because of the costs the expansion would impose. Over…

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Government Accountability

Union Privileges Fuel More Money in Politics

• Nathan Benefield
• July 16, 2012

Turns out not everything is bigger in Texas. The Lone Star State has twice the population of Pennsylvania, yet when it comes to political spending, Pennsylvania’s labor unions can outgun…

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Regulation

Popping Popular Privatization Myths

• July 16, 2012

When short on facts, blow a lot of hot air. That’s the strategy of liquor store union boss Wendell Young IV. Wendell and I were panelists on a recent Delaware County…

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Taxes & Economy

Welfare: Don’t Repudiate Resounding Results, Replicate Reform

• Elizabeth Stelle
• July 16, 2012

A new move from the Obama administration would waive work requirements under TANF (cash assistance). Requiring recipients to work was a central provision of the highly successful 1996 welfare…

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