Regulation

New Poll Shows Growing Support for Selling Liquor Stores

  • December 15, 2010

Released today, the Quinnipiac University poll shows that 66 percent of Pennsylvania voters support selling state liquor stores—a rise from the 50 percent reported by a F&M poll…

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Education

Choosing Schools

  • December 14, 2010

Recently, Bruno Manno in Education Week explains that approximately 29 million students are enrolled in the school of their choice (free registration required). This means that over 50…

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Privatizing Roads Stops Pa.’s Dead End

  • December 13, 2010

Most people assume that the maintenance and building of roads is a government task that cannot be handled by the private sector. But, as economist Bruce Benson explains in a…

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Taxes & Economy

Facts Not Fear For Drilling Issue

  • December 10, 2010

Below is my guest opinion published in the Lebanon Daily News today, which confronts a misleading letter to the editor addressing gas drilling. After reading Joyce Kunkle’s Dec.

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Taxes & Economy

I Got Your Energy Security Right Here

  • December 9, 2010

The Toronto Globe and Mail yesterday reported how vast discoveries of new North American energy sources could “reflect the beginning of the end for U.S. dependence on Mideast…

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Government Accountability

More Lawyers, Fewer Doctors

  • December 9, 2010

Our friends at the Pacific Research Institute have produced a short video series on “Jackpot Justice,” explaining how the civil-justice system has failed to protect good people and…

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Government Accountability

Legislators Refuse COLA Increase

  • December 8, 2010

Despite the fact that Pennsylvania faces a projected budget deficit of $5 billion, legislators in Harrisburg will receive their annual cost of living adjustment (COLA), aka pay raise. Based…

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Education

What to Do About Teacher Strikes

  • December 7, 2010

Pennsylvania once again led the nation in teacher strikes. Although only 13 states permit them, Pennsylvania tops the chart again as more students are deprived of up to 180…

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Taxes & Economy

Do you know the drill?

  • December 7, 2010

When it comes to hydraulic fracturing, Pennsylvanians are being bombarded with misleading information. Citizens informed with this inaccurate information, largely stemming from the disingenuous film Gasland, are…

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Regulation

Supremes Say Grocery Store Suds Sales Sanctioned

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • December 7, 2010

The State Supreme Court has ruled uniamously that Wegmen’s and other grocery stores with restaurants are allowed to apply for retail beer licenses, which allow them to sell six…

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