Unions Nailed on Prevailing Wage

• March 30, 2012

To hear the union boss of the Pennsylvania Building and Construction Trades Council tell it from his cushy offsite confines, prevailing wage is all about helping local communities…

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Public Union Democracy

Public Schools Can Do More with Less – If We Let Them

• Matthew Brouillette
• March 19, 2012

As families across Pennsylvania try to figure out how to do more with less in this difficult economy, our local public schools must also do the same. But unlike fiscally…

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Education

Principled, Punchy Pols Are Popular Pols

• Charles Mitchell
• March 15, 2012

I’ve written previously in this space about Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has garnered enormous popularity while governing courageously. Today, with a new Quinnipiac poll about Gov.

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Government Accountability

National Popular Vote: Radical Shift in Elections

• Nathan Benefield
• March 13, 2012

Yesterday, the House Republic Policy Committee held a hearing on National Popular Vote (NPV). If passed, Pennsylvania would join a compact of states agreeing to award their electoral votes…

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Regulation

Sounding the Alarm to Save Pennsylvania

• February 29, 2012

A four-alarm fire is engulfing Pennsylvania's economy. If we don't regain control of the state debt, corrections costs, public welfare growth and government employee pensions, our state taxpayers will be…

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Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania’s Once-Great Cities

• Nathan Benefield
• February 23, 2012

If you missed it, ReasonTV put out a great video on the city of Harrisburg’s fiscal disaster, asking whether Harrisburg’s nightmare is America’s Future. Much of what…

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Taxes & Economy

Which County will be Duped into Imposing Marcellus Tax?

• February 15, 2012

On Monday, Gov. Tom Corbett signed House Bill 1950, the Marcellus Shale impact tax, into law. The funding formula funnels the first $23 million in revenue to statewide programs. Local…

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State Budget

Stop the Fiscal Inferno!

• February 7, 2012

Burn, baby, burn, it’s a fiscal inferno! Okay, perhaps that’s not exactly how the old disco song goes, but that’s certainly how some politicians are singing it in Harrisburg.

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Regulation

Will our Grandchildren be Budget Losers?

• Richard Dreyfuss
• February 2, 2012

As the Governor's state budget address approaches, there is no shortage of speculation surrounding various fiscal austerity proposals and which departments and programs will likely be the ultimate budgetary "winners…

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