Regulation

Poll: Pennsylvanians Want End to Government Booze Sales

• February 12, 2013

Contact: Jay Ostrich: 717-649-6547| jay@cfpolicy.com A strong majority of Pennsylvanians favor ending government sale of wine and liquor according to a comprehensive poll conducted by nationally-renown pollster, FM3, released…

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Jay Ostrich | PLCB products plot latest slap at consumers

• November 28, 2012

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Government Accountability

Commonwealth Foundation Elects New Board Member

• November 27, 2012

Contact: Jay Ostrich 717.671.1901; cell: 717.649.6547 | jdo@commonwealthfoundation.org A leader in delivering compassionate elderly care and longtime Pennsylvania community advocate has been elected to the Commonwealth Foundation Board of Directors,…

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Education

Parental Choice + Competition = Better Schools

• Nathan Benefield
• October 1, 2012

A new study of academic performance in Ohio finds that traditional public schools facing competition from charter schools experience greater gains in student learning.  In summarizing the findings, the…

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Regulation

Will Union Contracts Stop Liquor Store Privatization?

• June 6, 2012

Desperate to protect the monopoly that provides his cushy $287,000 salary and benefits package, liquor store union boss Wendell Young IV has launched yet another dishonest attack. Mr. Young is…

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PLCB Called on to Stop Wine and Spirits Advertising

• December 9, 2011

The Commonwealth Foundation called for an immediate halt today by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board of taxpayer-funded advertising that promotes the sale of wine and spirits by the government-run monopoly.

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PLCB: We Didn’t Start the Fire!

• October 6, 2011

Now and then we like to have a sing along at CF.  Today, it’s sponsored by the languishing liquor lords at the PLCB who just produced a ponderous, perplexing piece of perestroika-like propaganda.  What…

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PLCB Kiosk Catastrophe Contains Cover Up

• August 11, 2011

The Commonwealth Foundation strongly condemned the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board today for failing to listen to advisors and covering up interagency memos recommending against a failed wine kiosk program…

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Regulation

End of PLCB’s Wine Kiosk Perestroika

• Nathan Benefield
• August 5, 2011

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s experiment with wine kiosks—dubbed by my colleague Jay Ostrich as the PLCB’s version of Perestroika—may be coming to an end. This comes on…

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