Unbalanced, Reckless Spending Bill

  • Common Sense Weekly
  • July 18, 2025

Welcome to the Commonwealth Foundation’s weekly news roundup of policy issues debated in Harrisburg and across Pennsylvania.Follow us on X for the latest updates—and help us reach 10,000 followers! PA…

Blog

Read More: Unbalanced, Reckless Spending Bill

Energy

How PA Can Prevent Deadly Blackouts

  • Gordon Tomb
  • December 19, 2023

Originally published in the Delaware Valley Journal Having heard witnesses say America’s largest power grid remains unreliable nearly a year after a close call with blackouts last Christmas, Pennsylvania…

Media Hit

Read More: How PA Can Prevent Deadly Blackouts

Taxes & Economy

Jennifer Stefano: Holiday shopping is a moral good

  • December 5, 2023

Despite a growing association of the Christmas season with anti-consumerism, holiday shopping stimulates local economies and businesses, writes Commonwealth Foundation Executive Vice President and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jennifer Stefano in her recent …

Press Release

Read More: Jennifer Stefano: Holiday shopping is a moral good

Taxes & Economy

Holiday shopping is a moral good

  • Jennifer Stefano
  • December 4, 2023

Originally published at The Philadelphia Inquirer At 5:15 p.m. on Christmas Eve, you’ll find me at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church near 13th…

Media Hit

Read More: Holiday shopping is a moral good

Pa. Emergency Powers Amendment Going to People

  • Michael Torres
  • February 5, 2021

Feb. 4, 2021, Harrisburg, Pa.,— On March 6, 2020, Gov. Tom Wolf proclaimed a disaster emergency in Pennsylvania, granting himself the extraordinary power to supersede many state laws to…

Press Release

Read More: Pa. Emergency Powers Amendment Going to People

Criminal Justice Reform

Tough on Crime, Smart on Justice

  • Charles Mitchell
  • January 9, 2019

Commentators called it a “Christmas miracle.” In late December, Congressional Republicans and Democrats cooperated to pass the FIRST STEP Act, America’s most significant federal sentencing and prison reform…

Media

Read More: Tough on Crime, Smart on Justice