Podcast: PA Teachers Talk Pension Reform

  • July 29, 2014

Often lost in the public pension reform debate raging across the state are the viewpoints of public school teachers themselves. That’s why our Senior Policy Analyst Priya Abraham recently interviewed…

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Regulation

The Sun Rises on Liquor Liberty

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • March 18, 2013

It wasn’t a typical Monday morning for me or the dozen citizen-patriots and CF team members that stood together in an empty hallway, outside a hearing room in the Capitol…

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PLCB: As Modern as Rotary Phones

  • December 11, 2012

When was the last time you used a rotary phone?  It seems like a million years ago you were sticking your finger in the dial and painstakingly turning…

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Top-10 Reasons to Choose Booze or Lose

  • June 4, 2012

The Terrible 10: Whether You’re a Boozer (drinker) or Chooser (non-drinker), the PLCB Makes You a Loser.  Find out the top-10 reasons that government in the booze business is a…

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Top 5 Ways Liquor Monopoly Wastes Your Money

  • May 30, 2012

There’s good reason why other states, like Washington, have moved to get government out of the booze business, and aren’t looking to copy Pennsylvania’s flawed monopoly model.  This post…

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Taxpayers Screaming at PLCB Waste

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 17, 2012

Another day, another story of waste at the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. ABC 27’s Dennis Owens reports on the PLCB buying extravagant wine, then selling it at a discount…

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UnAPPetizing Waste Poured by PLCB…Again

  • May 11, 2012

  Have you heard of the millionaire iPhone app?  It’s called VIP Black and for $1,000 at the iTunes store you get a “premium lifestyle application” that guarantees “heightened…

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Got Freedom? PLCB Has No App for That!

  • February 28, 2012

Ah yes, the Merry Minions of Merlot, makers of mediocrity, mismanagement and the modish mockery of “modernization” are at it again.  But instead of truly bringing us into the 21st…

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Education

It’s Not About Tuition, It’s About Mo’ Money

  • Charles Mitchell
  • February 10, 2012

Over at PA Independent, Stacy Brown has an important story on the ongoing fight over Gov. Corbett’s budget proposal.  There, Duquesne University professor Antony Davies, a member of CF’s…

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