Government Accountability

CF Blog Roundup

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 1, 2010

Here are some recent Commonwealth Foundation mentions from various blogs: Bill Lawrence cites our alternatives to tolling I-80. GrassrootsPA gives us linkage on commentaries on Term Limits…

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Taxes & Economy

Five Alternatives to Tolling I-80

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 26, 2010

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) continues its push for federal approval to toll Interstate-80, claiming that without it bridges will collapse, highways will crumble, and dogs and cats will start…

Commentary

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Government Accountability

CF Challenges Gov. Rendell to Explain What’s In the Bill

  • January 21, 2010

Harrisburg, PA – Yesterday, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell told Fox News that voters oppose the current health care reform proposal because “the administration and its supporters, myself included, haven’t…

Press Release

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Government Accountability

Time for Term Limits Again

  • January 21, 2010

Unfortunately, this spirit of civic virtue yielded to self-aggrandizement. Early on, legislators served a few terms in a public office and then returned to private life to live under the…

Commentary

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State Budget

Example of Why There’s No Money to Fix Bridges

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 20, 2010

As I pointed out in a recent post, much of Pennsylvania’s transportation funding goes not to fix decaying infrastructure, but to beautification and other…

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Education

Mann-Made Global Warming?

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • January 19, 2010

Climategate was born in late November 2009 with the release of more than a thousand emails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia…

Commentary

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A Third Stimulus Won’t be the Charm

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 15, 2010

Some members of Congress are pushing a third economic "stimulus" in as many years (pundits often forget the Bush stimulus of 2008). Supporters of yet another round of deficit spending…

Commentary

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Weekly Blog Roundup

  • January 14, 2010

The CF call for an independent investigation into a Penn State professor caught in climatology scandal caught many bloggers’ attention this week. GrassrootsPA,…

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State Budget

Pennsylvania Deficit Watch: January 2010

  • January 5, 2010

Six months through the 2009-10 fiscal year, state revenues are $254 million below budget expenditures, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. Tax collections have been below estimate in…

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