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Regulation

Did Lawmakers Fix the Pension Mess?

• Richard Dreyfuss
• December 16, 2010

Joe DiStefano of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that State Representative (and PSERS Board member) Dwight Evans claims no further pension reform is needed. Evans is hardly dealing with reality.

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Taxes & Economy

The “Fair Share” Canard

• Matthew Brouillette
• December 16, 2010

Tonight, I’ll be on WITF’s Smart Talk to discuss why jobs aren’t coming back quicker and if we should allow tax rates to increase (i.e., allow the Bush tax…

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Taxes & Economy

Pipeline to Nowhere is Dead

• December 16, 2010

In November, the PennVEST board, heavily pressured by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), approved an almost $12 million taxpayer-funded grant and loan to pay for a water line…

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Pa.-backed challenge to health-care law heads to court

• December 15, 2010

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Education

PA School Districts Creating Online Options in Response to Cyber Schools

• Nathan Benefield
• December 15, 2010

As reported in the Valley News Dispatch, Pennsylvania school districts continue to add online options in response to students leaving for public cyber schools. Two things to…

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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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Customers must decide: Keep PECO, or try another outlet?

• December 14, 2010

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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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Borrowing will leave legacy of high debt

• December 12, 2010

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Commonwealth Foundation says … Lawsuit lottery must end

• December 10, 2010

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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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Drilling issue must be argued with facts

• December 10, 2010

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State to seek $650 million for projects

• December 10, 2010

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State Capitol workers paid to stay home on Inauguration Day

• December 10, 2010

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Most local lawmakers giving back pay raise

• December 10, 2010

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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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Pennsylvanians will pay $2.2 million for state workers’ day off for Corbett inauguration

• December 9, 2010

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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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Few benefits of more employment benefits

• December 8, 2010

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