Taxes & Economy

How Low Can Frackaphobes Go?

  • July 30, 2012

Winston Churchill once quipped that, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” If so, then natural gas drilling myths…

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PLCB: Kiosk Chaos Continues Until Morale Improves

  • August 16, 2011

Would a legitimate business ignore the findings of its own contract evaluation panel that found an inexperienced vendor’s business plan “deficient,” but go on to award a contract that didn’t meet consumer demands let…

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Education

The Really Devastating Thing Would Be a Tax Increase

  • Charles Mitchell
  • April 20, 2011

My wife and I returned to Pennsylvania last year, and boy, are we feeling welcome right now.  The warm fuzzies really took over earlier today when my wife called to…

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Education

Another Way to Handle Budget Problems

  • March 17, 2011

Following up on Charles’s post last week about Penn State’s “political stunt” over Gov. Corbett’s planned cuts to the university, it might help PSU president Graham Spanier to look…

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Education

Top Ten Reasons Pennsylvanians Deserve More from Their Universities

  • Charles Mitchell
  • March 17, 2011

Yesterday in Harrisburg, the talk was all about Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposal to cut the generous subsidies Pennsylvania taxpayers provide to our universities.  Budget Secretary Charles Zogby said…

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Taxes & Economy

Associated Press Article on Fracking Got it Wrong

  • January 19, 2011

As Gov. Corbett’s Administration takes office, anti-drilling activist have sought to make a natural gas severance tax their legislative priority. Unfortunately, their distrust of the gas industry largely stems from…

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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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Media and Bloggers Highlight Coming Pension Battle

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 14, 2010

In advance of Monday’s vote on HB 2497, the Union Pension Bailout—and afraid folks would be caught unaware of this lame-duck effort—the Commonwealth Foundation issued an action alert;…

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