Public Union Democracy

Plagiarism: Union Style

• Matthew Brouillette
• February 19, 2014

Several letters to the editor opposing paycheck protection—ostensibly written by different teachers—have appeared in newspapers around the state. Their suspicious similarity provides a valuable lesson in a practice typically frowned…

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Taxes & Economy

Marcellus Shale Drilling Equals Affordable Energy

• December 1, 2011

As the Intelligencer Journal reports, Marcellus Shale drilling is the reason UGI Utilities is dropping natural gas rates by 13.5 percent, providing significant savings for the 15 counties…

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Education

To These People, Gov. Corbett’s “C” Word Is an Epithet

• Charles Mitchell
• January 21, 2011

Well. It sounds like the media and the educational establishment interpreted Gov. Tom Corbett’s inaugural address the same way I did. Since his inauguration, there has been a bunch…

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The “fairness” of tolling I-80

• Nathan Benefield
• August 1, 2008

Here is my letter to the editor in the Intelligencer Journal Your July 28 editorial, “No free way,” implies that tolling I-80 is somehow more “fair” than a…

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Tobacco companies must pay Pa. growers

• Nathan Benefield
• August 22, 2007

Story from the AP and Intelligencer Journal on a court ruling that tobacco companies must pay tobacco farmers for lost revenue (HT to Grassroots PA). The PA Attorney…

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Rendell pushes health plan

• Nathan Benefield
• February 2, 2007

Lancaster Intelligencer Journal article on RendellCare. After quoting my commentary on Rendell’s misdiagnosis of the problem, the article then quotes Rendell saying: “‘It’s important for the Legislature to…

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Government Accountability

Liberty Index in Lancaster

• January 31, 2006

Democratic Rep. Mike Sturla’s response to his F- grade in the Intelligencer Journal is classic: “[T]hese are people who never bothered to drive, or get prescription drugs for their…

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