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What Our Towns Pay: Suburban cops dominate list of top earners

• August 17, 2015

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Regulation

Gov. Wolf’s So-Called Compromise

• Nathan Benefield
• August 17, 2015

Gov. Wolf proposed a new “compromise” on pensions and the budget last week, according to news reports. Here is what that compromise includes: A defined contribution plan for new…

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Education

Pension Reform to Protect my Kids

• August 17, 2015

I chose teaching because I enjoy interacting with students and helping them learn.  My science classes show students that certain actions yield predictable results.  With this in mind, I am…

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What does state law require for lobbying reports? Good question

• August 16, 2015

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Government Accountability

New Contract, Still no Transparency

• Nathan Benefield
• August 14, 2015

The newest state contract with AFSCME—the union representing more than 30,000 state workers—was signed earlier this week. The contract was agreed to in April, then ratified by…

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Wolf property tax plan a sour vintage (letter)

• August 14, 2015

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Letter to the Editor: Gov. Tom Wolf glosses over biggest source of new revenue: sales and income tax hikes

• August 14, 2015

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Letter to the Editor: Gov. Tom Wolf glosses over biggest source of new revenue: sales and income tax hikes

• August 13, 2015

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Consider points on severance tax

• August 13, 2015

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4.6 Billion Is the Loneliest Number

• Gina Diorio
• August 12, 2015

Gov. Tom Wolf and the state legislature have agreed on legislation 39 times this year, the Pittsburgh Tribune notes. But when it came time to vote on Wolf’s $4.6…

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State Budget

Audio: Gov. Wolf’s Budget Blindspot

• Jonathan Reginella
• August 12, 2015

CF’s Nate Benefield joins Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT to discuss the budget impasse and Gov. Wolf’s misleading claims. During their conversation, Nate shed light on Gov.

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Gov. Wolf’s complaints with the Republican budget

• August 12, 2015

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Seattle Hospital Cuts Cost of Outpatient Services 35 Percent

• August 11, 2015

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Regulation

Entrepreneurs Speak Out Against the PLCB

• August 10, 2015

Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) partisans are quick to defend the agency as an asset for the state, but the PLCB’s finances—and the entrepreneurs who deal with the booze bureaucracy—tell a different story. On the financial front, the board reported $117 million in net…

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State Budget

Listen: Telephone Townhall on PA Budget and More

• Jonathan Reginella
• August 10, 2015

Matt Brouillette and Rich Zeoli of Talk Radio 1210 WPHT answer questions about the Pennsylvania budget during a telephone town hall. Matt explains how Gov. Wolf's tax plan that would smack…

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Letters: Fattah charges political revenge

• August 7, 2015

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Truth lacking on Tom Wolf’s ‘Schools That Teach’ tour (letter)

• August 7, 2015

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State Budget

Silly Talk with Gov. Wolf

• Nathan Benefield
• August 6, 2015

Gov. Tom Wolf appeared on Radio Smart Talk yesterday morning. He mostly danced around host Scott LaMar's questions—claiming “You don't know what I’ve been supporting” on pension reform, and…

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Regulation

Could Coal’s Savior be PA’s Legislature?

• Elizabeth Stelle, Gordon Tomb
• August 5, 2015

180 workers in CONSOL Energy’s coal division recently lost their jobs. Now, Pennsylvania’s legislature may be the only thing standing between the Obama administration and complete destruction of the…

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Education

Discouraging Signs in York City

• James Paul
• August 5, 2015

The consequences of Gov. Tom Wolf’s lock-step fealty to public sector union interests are being felt across the state and particularly in York City—where one of Wolf’s…

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Education

Union Politicking Shows Need for Mary’s Law

• Gina Diorio
• August 4, 2015

Political mailers supporting candidates are par for the course during elections—unless those mailers are sent by government unions and funded with members’ dues. Then, they’re illegal. But that didn’t stop…

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