Energy

Don’t Believe the Hype: Wind and Solar Aren’t Cheap

• September 11, 2025

Renewable energy—specifically wind and solar energy—has its own hidden costs. “If you take a grid or a system and grow the renewables penetration, you will raise the price of it,”…

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Government Accountability

Election Reform in Pennsylvania

• November 25, 2024

Summary Ahead of the 2020 election, Pennsylvania allowed no-excuse mail-in voting for the first time. Officials overwhelmed with millions of ballot requests, last-minute state guidance, and litigation resulted in delayed…

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Energy

Fracking could decide the election in Pennsylvania — and nationwide

• Andrew Lewis
• October 22, 2024

Originally published at the New York Post Pennsylvania may be the deciding state in the 2024 election. And new polling from my organization makes clear energy may be the deciding…

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Energy

This nixed natural-gas project shows you just how absurd Biden’s energy policy is

• Jennifer Stefano
• April 7, 2022

Originally published in the New York Post As gas prices rise and Vladimir Putin escalates his war on Ukraine, Democrats’ political fortunes fall. That’s why President Joe Biden announced last week he’ll…

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Op-Ed: Empower Parents, Not Union Leaders

• Nathan Benefield
• September 27, 2021

Originally published at RealClearEducation Earlier this year, the New York Post revealed that the American Federation of Teachers – one of America’s two national teachers’ unions – had…

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Health Care

Preserving Medicaid: How to Stop Shortchanging Patients and Bankrupting Taxpayers

• August 19, 2020

Pennsylvania is a Medicaid leader in all the wrong ways. Enrollment has skyrocketed beyond population growth, and the state ranks fourth in the share of the state budget consumed by Medicaid.

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Taxes & Economy

“Promised Land” Bombs at Box Office

• Elizabeth Stelle
• January 8, 2013

“Promised Land,” Tinseltown’s recent take on natural gas drilling, opened in theaters across the nation this past weekend. Despite a cast of heavy hitters, including Matt Damon, the film grossed…

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Taxes & Economy

“Taxing the Rich” Won’t Help Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• May 26, 2009

The Wall Street Journal has an article today on how Maryland’s higher taxes on “the rich” drove millionaires to move to other states.  Last week, the NY Post had…

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Education

School Choice Hypocrisy Coming in DC?

• Nathan Benefield
• March 1, 2009

The federal “omnibus” bill, despite billions in earmarks an pork, also proposes to cut off funding for the DC Scholarship program, write Dan Lips and Robert Enlow in NRO…

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