Education

Cut Waste at This Temple, and I Will Praise It in Three Days

  • Charles Mitchell
  • July 1, 2011

Temple University just announced that it is raising tuition by ten percent, blaming the new state budget.  Temple is an outstanding example of an institution that should have spent…

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Government Accountability

Spending Transparency Coming to Pennsylvania at Last

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • June 30, 2011

Pennsylvania taxpayers are one step closer to finding out exactly how state government spends their money. Yesterday, the legislature passed HB 15 to establish PennWATCH—a free public spending database…

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Education

Saving Harrisburg?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 27, 2011

In their efforts to “save Harrisburg” through a state takeover should the city fail to adopt Act 47 recommendations, lawmakers have overlooked one extremly effective option: school choice. Despite state…

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Education

The Razor’s Edge of School Choice

  • June 27, 2011

When Vicky Miller and her daughter Emalie moved to Harrisburg because of a job and financial necessity, they considered their educational options. Five elementary schools in Harrisburg City School District…

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Education

Give Voters a Say on School Taxes

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 23, 2011

Five years ago, state lawmakers passed Act 1 to provide property tax relief and give voters a voice on school tax increases.  But since slot machine gambling was introduced in…

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Education

Father Knows Best for Son

  • June 22, 2011

Yesterday, we shared the story of Joy Herbert, a heavily involved parent of son, Anthony, 17, a former ‘A' student who was forced to drop out of school due violence. …

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Public Union Democracy

Shippensburg Asks for Prevailing Wage Relief

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 14, 2011

Shippensburg Borough Council recently passed a resolution asking for state relief from prevailing wage mandates.  Prevailing wage mandates were imposed 50 years ago in Pennsylvania, following federal Davis-Bacon Act…

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Taxes & Economy

The Real Victims of a Severance Tax

  • June 7, 2011

Jim VanBlarcom, a busy Bradford County dairy farmer, set a work day aside to come to Harrisburg and tell his story to Gov. Tom Corbett's Marcellus Shale panel. Royalty money…

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Union Red Herring Erring

  • June 2, 2011

The recent Pennsylvania AFL-CIO media campaign to malign Rep. Scott Perry by saying he wants to “punish workers” is as off base as it is disingenuous. The union, for…

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