Jessica Fannin
Marketing Coordinator
Jessica Fannin is the Marketing Coordinator at the Commonwealth Foundation.
She brings to the public affairs team a background in storytelling fueled by strategic audience engagement, videography, and digital media.
A graduate of Messiah University, Jessica earned her bachelor’s degree in broadcasting and journalism. During her time at Messiah, she was a podcast host for the student radio station and an Emmy-nominated student journalist. Additionally, she gained experience through internships at a Christian TV station, a videography company, and a financial-planning firm.
Jessica is passionate about finding creative ways to connect with an audience and deliver messages that resonate. At the core of her work is a love for people and the drive to share stories that matter.
When she is not at work, Jessica enjoys staying active with activities like line dancing, exercising, and exploring new trails.
House GOP pushes for lower state income tax
Tony Phyrillas on today’s hearing regarding rolling back the state PIT to it’s pre-2004 level of 2.80%. Read Matt’s testimony here, or sign up for email updates…
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How you match up with Presidential candidates
Lancaster Online has posted on new tool to track how you match up, on issues, with presidential candidates. It seems to work out pretty accurately for me (a couple…
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School choices promote accountability
Good Editorial on how if you want “accountability” in education, then you should support school choice. Of course the critics of school choice in its various forms always cite…
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19th Century View of Government?
Patriot News has a blurb about our re-selling calendars for property tax relief (third item). Rendell spokeman Chuck Ardo defends the calendars (more or less) by taking a…
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Free Market Health Care FAQ
A new publication from the Galen Institute: Frequently asked questions on health policy and responses from our pro-market perspective Topics on this page Free-market healthcare…
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Employee Free Choice Act Would Disenfranchise 105 Million Workers
Web Memo on proposed card-check legislation from the Heritage Foundation Topics on this page Employee Free Choice ActThe Heritage Foundation…
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Who else has Rendell promised money to?
Pete DeCoursey of Capitolwire.com (subscription) has broken a story about Lionsgate Films lobbying the state. The story began by looking into violations of the state lobbying law when Lionsgate…
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Health Care Advice to Candidates
John Goodman offers a bit of advice on health care policy to presidential candidates.
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Common Sense of Bonusgate
Paul Jacob of The Sam Adams Alliance weighs in on Pennsylvania’s “Bonusgate”. Listen to the audio version here. Topics on this page Common sense…
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Of Calendars and Porn Taxes
Policy Blog may only be #6 in this weeks PA Blog Influence Ranking, but we made some noise over the weekend. The Pittsburgh Tribune Review featured a story…
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Hold the Pork
John Fund in the Wall Street Journal on the 9,000 earmarks, and the possibility Bush will refuse to acknowledge them. Since the earmarks were dropped into a conference report,…
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How states encourge higher uninsurance rates
Wall Street Journal article by Tarren Bragdon questions Why does New York spend more on Medicaid — a health-care program for the poor — than every other state…
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Proposed PA tax on adult businesses
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story on the latest new tax proposal, this one on “adult businesses” from Senator Jane Orie (so much for Senate Republicans opposing any new taxes). I was…
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Leading Bioenergy Crops Bad for the Environment
An analysis in Science Magazine of a finds that the environmental impact of biofuels from corn, soy and other crops may be worse than fossil fuels. More from…
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Cost of Calendars
The Chief Clerks offices for both the PA House and Senate have graciously provided the cost of printing those lovely Capitol Calendars. Here is the breakdown: House:Calendars Printed:…
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Rich states grow faster by taxing less
Washington Examiner editorial on how rich states grow faster by taxing less Topics on this page Washington Examiner…
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I Am Lawsuit Abuse
New website highlights of the worst cases of lawsuit abuse, including the infamous case of a judge suing a dry cleaner for losing his pants – for $67 million.
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Lawmakers have priorities confused
This Letter to the Editor at The REPUBLICAN & Herald succinctly nails what’s wrong with Harrisburg. We need more such letters in newspapers across Pennsylvania. Actually, we need more…
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Taxpayer Protection Limit equal to 3.29%
With the latest population estimate from the Census Bureau (which shows continued anemic growth in PA), we can now estimate what the spending limit under the proposed…
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Politics and ideology stall health-care initiatives
I thought I’d comment on this Beaver County Times Editorial that decries “politics and ideology” for stopping health care initiatives like RendellCare. They are right, you know, ideology –…
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Why the “Year of Reform” Wasn’t
Russ Diamond on “Why the “Year of Reform” Wasn’t”: Nothing else has been accomplished on the reform front, though. Newspaper editors, pundits, journalists and citizens are asking: Why?…
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