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New Analysis Reveals Striking Partisanship of Government Union Spending
Government unions spent more than $33 million on political causes and only 5.2 percent of PAC contributions went to non-Democratic candidates. Harrisburg, Pa., April 16, 2025 — Government unions…
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Prosperity
Independent Fiscal Office Exposes Shapiro’s Overinflated Revenue Projections
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Education
Senate Republicans School Shapiro Administration, Stand up for Students and Taxpayers
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Commonwealth Foundation Announces Promotion of Elizabeth Stelle to Vice President of Policy
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Time to put PHEAA up for sale
Editorial on PHEAA from The Valley Independent: “While the concept of placing the agency in the hands of a private, for-profit company might seem – considering the whole PROFIT aspect…
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Who are the judges?
A Reposting – for those of you who are neither lawyers or criminals and are looking for more info about the judicial candidates, here are various surveys/voter guides. Democracy…
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Pork or Bridge Repairs
The Club For Growth and Americans for Prosperity are blogging on Senator Tom Coburn’s effort to remove pork projects from transportation funding. Read more on transportation pork…
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PA Chief Justice to retire at year’s end
Chief Justice Cappy will retire at the end of the year. Apparently, even he just isn’t paid well enough to finish his term.
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English offers new remedy to tolling of I-80
Congressman Phil English is proposing to ban tolls on all existing federal freeways, similar to a proposal introduced by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. We don’t think that is…
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Are 37 million really poor?
Robert Rector Q&A on the latest poverty numbers: When you look at the people who John Edwards insists are poor, what you find is that the overwhelming…
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Consumerism and High-Cost Health Care
Health Hog on the idea that individual consumers can’t be allowed to make choices in major health care decision (which leads to the idea that government agents need to…
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Falling Bridges: The Nation Doesn’t Face a Crisis
John and Maxim Lott in the NY Post take on the “crisis” in bridges. They note that “structurally deficient” bridges have little or nothing to do with a likelihood…
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Fumo still doesn’t like Turnpike Lease idea
Patriot News article cites Vince Fumo as evidence that legislators don’t like the idea of a Turnpike lease. As Fumo put it, the turnpike “is what it is,…
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Paying interest, not earning it
Matt Brouillette’s commentary “Paying interest, not earning it” in the Sunday Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. And did you see Gov. Rendell’s response that was put out about 8 hours after…
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‘The Ten Cannots’…again
Although we posted “The Ten Cannots” last week, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review used them on their editorial page today with some commentary. They are so good, they are worth reading…
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Socialized Medicine is Already Here
Michael Cannon writes that the US health care system is already half socialized (and it is the half-socialized aspects, not the half-free parts, which is to blame of most…
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I-80 tolls the best of ideas … or the worst
Eric Heyl on Tolling I-80 in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The most significant problem with this proposal — and it is a particularly nagging one — is that…
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Minnesota’s Fiscal Priorities: Too Bad Bridge-Building Isn’t a Sport
Tax Foundation commentary on looks at the Minnesota bridge collapse, and debunks the myth of there not being enough money for transportation by pointing out how there is an…
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Who Pays for Health Insurance?
Wall Street Journal column discusses how it isn’t just the uninsured who don’t benefit from the current health insurance model (and how a standard deduction for health care would…
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Rendell revives idea of leasing turnpike
The Patriot-News reports that “Rendell has said that if the process promised annual returns approaching $1.5 billion or more, he likely would ask the General Assembly to reconsider the…
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Turnpike Open for Bidding
Governor Rendell has issued a request for qualifications for bidders on a Turnpike Lease. I’m not clear how a “request for qualifications” differs from “expression of interest” or an…
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High school graduates not proficient
Report from PA Partnerships for Children reveals that 45% of Pennsylvania high school graduates last year did not pass the 11th grade PSSA (on the first or 2nd try).
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The Ten Cannots
THE TEN CANNOTSBy Reverend William J.H. Boetcker (1916) You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big…
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Tolling I-80: What a crock
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Harrisburg’s transportation boondoggle: “It was hatched behind closed doors without debate or public input.” Read today’s commentary from Matt Brouillette too.
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Fix health care by making Americans care about costs
Michael Cannon in USATODAY.com on fixing the real problems in health care.
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