Education

Want to Help PA’s Kids?

• January 19, 2012

With the 10-year anniversary of No Child Left Behind recently passing, the $20.7 million bailout for Chester-Upland School District, and students in Neshaminy sitting at home while…

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PLCB Quips Curing Cancer Can’t Combat Critics

• January 12, 2012

In a recent interview on Harrisburg’s ABC-27, PLCB board member P.J. Stapleton III clarified once again why we frequently refer to the PLCB as tone deaf. Speaking with…

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Taxes & Economy

Do Millionaires Need Food Stamps?

• Elizabeth Stelle
• January 11, 2012

For the past few years, politicians in Harrisburg and Washington have considered it a “success” to put more families on welfare. The result is an abundance of loopholes that allow…

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Education

A Decade Left Behind

• Matthew Brouillette
• January 11, 2012

My first career started a few decades ago in the classroom as a high school history teacher.  While much has changed since then – including the use of technology and…

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Taxes & Economy

Calvin Coolidge, Tom Corbett, and Why Politics Isn’t Like Business

• Charles Mitchell
• December 30, 2011

My wife is awesome.  As proof, I submit to you the fact that she willingly parted with 35 bucks in order to give me The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge for…

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Taxes & Economy

Tax-Exempt Government Property Adds to Harrisburg’s Woes

• Nathan Benefield
• December 29, 2011

The city of Harrisburg is facing a fiscal crisis primarily brought on by over-spending, accruing too much debt, and getting into areas government has no business—from the incinerator to owning…

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Why Gov. Corbett Didn’t Get His Christmas Wish List

• Matthew Brouillette
• December 22, 2011

For Christmas this year, Gov. Tom Corbett hoped the legislature would gift wrap three things he could tie a bow on:  An education reform package that included school vouchers, state…

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Union Party vs. Taxpayer Party: PA’s Political Paradigm

• Matthew Brouillette
• December 20, 2011

If you don’t receive our Weekly Update every Monday via email, here’s what you missed yesterday.  If you want to get these updates directly, sign up here. Dear…

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Education

Patriot News (Mostly) Endorses School Choice

• Nathan Benefield
• December 9, 2011

This week, the Patriot News editorial board wrote an endorsement of a school voucher proposal in Pennsylvania. Here is the key pro argument: The case for vouchers is…

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