Taxes & Economy

Re: What About Jobs of Other Colors?

  • May 11, 2010

Katrina’s post on Friday that highlighted Energy Ventures Analysis’s job destruction realism about Pennsylvania’s proposed alternative energy mandates is buttressed by similar research elsewhere, including …

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Taxes & Economy

Rendell on HB 80: Now it’s war!

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • January 14, 2010

Yesterday, Governor Rendell had some harsh albeit entertaining words for opponents of HB 80, which would increase the state’s mandated alternative energy requirements. According to Rendell “Powerful special interests…

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Regulation

PA Should Heed Europe’s Experience with Renewables

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • November 11, 2009

Last month the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) released Pennsylvania’s Climate Change Action plan. While touting the creation of “green jobs”, it did not advocate increasing PA’s…

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Health Care

Lots More Reasons why ObamaCare isn’t Popular

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 18, 2009

Pete DeCoursey has an interesting column on Capitowire (subscription) about why people oppose ObamaCare. He hits the main point correct — most people are satisfied with their coverage (…

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Health Care

Obama’s Health Care Quackery

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 12, 2009

Shikha Dalmia has a piece on Reason.com  discussing the falacy that “universal health care.”  The Obama plan would in fact, move the US closer to European countries, Canada, and…

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Taxes & Economy

Turnpike lease would be model for investing in infrastructure

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 3, 2008

Patriot News editorial notes that the proposed Turnpike lease deal would make PA a model for the nation. It’s not that the public-private partnership concept being pushed…

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Regulation

Why you can’t use cell phones on planes

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 3, 2008

Anyone who has flown before is quite familiar with the message from flight crews to turn off your cell phones. But did you ever wonder why that is required? Security…

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More on Free Markets v. Socialized Medicine

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 1, 2007

In response to the criticisms of cancer survival statistics used in a Giuliani ad, David Grazter has defended his statistic and provides additional data about survival rates…

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OECD report on Biofuels

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 20, 2007

The recent OECD report on biofuels is a must read for lawmakers consider Governor’s plan to mandate ethanol use and to subsidize ethanol production in PA: The…

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