State Budget

Gov. Corbett Earns “A” for Fiscal Firefighting

• Nathan Benefield
• October 9, 2012

Gov. Tom Corbett was one of only four governors to get an “A” in Cato Institute’s Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors. Corbett was joined by Govs. Sam…

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Education trigger belongs in Pennsylvania parents’ hands

• October 5, 2012

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Health Care

Medicaid Expansion Bad Deal for Patients

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 3, 2012

Health care interest groups took to the press in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg to argue for expanding Medicaid in Pennsylvania, but these advocates overlook the program’s flaws and its long-term…

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Education

“Won’t Back Down” Captures Heart of Education

• Priya Brannick
• October 2, 2012

“Won’t Back Down” is a movie about education that fittingly begins and ends with a close-up of a child reading aloud. Education debates in America frequently whirl…

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Pennsylvania must pull parent trigger to save public education

• October 2, 2012

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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

PLCB Spills Grapes of Wrath!

• October 1, 2012

Wine Shrines, Kiosk Catastrophes and ethics investigations step aside (okay, hold that last one), the Kings of Cabernet have uncorked their latest mayhem of modernization, malfeasance and…

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Pa. Must Pull Parent Trigger to Save Education

• September 30, 2012

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Education

Pa. Must Pull Parent Trigger to Save Education

• September 28, 2012

Martin Luther King Jr. believed that, "unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."  If correct, then no stronger love or enduring truth can personify his…

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