Government Accountability

Lawsuit Lottery Must End

• December 8, 2010

Upon taking office in January, Governor-elect Tom Corbett will face the burden of addressing the numerous economic and fiscal problems facing the Keystone State.  One of the most pervasive is…

Commentary

Unemployment Compensation Time Bomb Set to Explode

• Elizabeth Stelle
• December 2, 2010

Unemployment woes are back in the news.  With benefit extensions up for debate, a much bigger unemployment problem is on the horizon. Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation fund is bankrupt, but…

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Taxes & Economy

Family Feud Fuels Anti-Drilling Folly, Fiasco

• Elizabeth Stelle
• November 30, 2010

Last week, the Wall Street Journal featured the leasing saga of the Price family, a Silver Lake Township, Pa., clan whose fickle family…

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Regulation

The New Food Justice Agenda

• November 9, 2010

The food police are coming to Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania State Board of Education is considering new nutrition guidelines for events at public schools, which would mean the end…

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Health Care

Is FactCheck Recycling Talking Points on ObamaCare?

• Nathan Benefield
• October 29, 2010

Here is an email I sent to FactCheck.org: Your recent article claims insurance premiums won’t go up. Are you kidding? Simple economics, or the experience of states like…

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Energy

Never Enough Green for Renewable Energy

• October 27, 2010

According to Pennsylvania's Public Utilities Commission, the annual cost of ownership for solar energy per kilowatt-hour is over 700% more than the cost of coal, and wind energy is almost…

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Regulation

The Only Way to Fix Public Pensions

• Nathan Benefield
• October 4, 2010

The Baltimore Sun editorializes that the only way to fix the pension plan for state workers (in Maryland, though the same would hold true in Pennsylvania) is to move…

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Taxes & Economy

Fact Check: Severance Tax Proposal Would be Highest in US

• Nathan Benefield
• September 28, 2010

SB 1155 would impose a severance tax rate of 39 cents per MCF. At the August estimated average wellhead price of $4.22 per MCF, this is an effective…

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Taxes & Economy

PennEnvironment: Weather is Climate Again

• September 9, 2010

So PennEnvironment yesterday comes out with a new propaganda piece to capitalize on what they call last winter’s “Snowmageddon,” which is designed to get…

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