Education

End Transparency Exemption for Penn State

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • November 17, 2011

Penn State officials will soon be under a different kind of investigation—an investigation by taxpayers. In the aftermath of the child sexual abuse scandal, Rep. Eugene DePasquale is…

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Taxes & Economy

Mann: From Transparency Champion to ‘Bully’ Victim

  • January 9, 2011

As Chris Horner blogged yesterday, the Environmental Law Center at American Tradition Institute (where I am executive director) has requested under the state Freedom of Information…

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Taxes & Economy

Penn State’s Mann Under More Scrutiny

  • January 6, 2011

Also today Pennsylvania Independent reports that the American Tradition Institute, where I am executive director, has filed a Freedom of Information…

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Taxes & Economy

Penn State and PennFuture: Two Peas in a Pod

  • July 14, 2010

While PennFuture’s Jan Jarrett whines about alleged Commonwealth Foundation smears of themselves and of Climategate scientist Michael Mann, The Atlantic‘s Clive Crook — a…

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Taxes & Economy

Top Mann Nemesis: He’s Not a Fraud

  • May 28, 2010

The person who was most instrumental in debunking Penn State scientist Michael Mann‘s hockey stick chart, Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit, said at a climate realists’ conference last week…

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Taxes & Economy

There PennFuture Goes Again!

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • February 16, 2010

This morning on Harrisburg’s NPR station WITF (audio), Commonwealth Foundation adjunct scholar Andrew Langer debated Jan Jarrett of PennFuture.  Afterward Jarrett slammed us…

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Education

Climategate is an Embarassment

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 12, 2010

Penn State sophomore Samuel Settle pens a letter on why he is embarrassed of professor Michael Mann’s behavior, and his school’s white-washing of an investigation. Click here for our…

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Taxes & Economy

Climategate Investigator Seeks Whistleblowers at Penn State

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 4, 2010

An investigator into the “climategate” controversy has emailed all of Penn State professor Michael Mann’s colleagues, highlighting the reward for those who blow the whistle on misuse of federal…

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Penn State to Launch Inquiry in “Climategate”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 30, 2009

Penn State University is going to “look into” the emails from and about university professor Michael Mann, which indicate, among other things,…

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