Regulation

Calling Shenanigans on Liquor Union Bosses

  • July 30, 2012

Pennsylvania’s liquor store union bosses have been called out by Dr. Antony Davies, an associate professor at Duquesne University, and James Harrigan, a fellow of the Institute of…

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Taxes & Economy

Olympic Lessons for Gold Medal Citizens

  • July 30, 2012

When you watch as much Olympics coverage as I do, you can learn a lot: like the size of swimming prodigy Missy Franklin’s feet (13), the weight of the tires…

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State Budget

Pennsylvania Welfare Changes will Save an Estimated $173 Million

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • July 27, 2012

Act 80 of 2012 amends the Pennsylvania Welfare Code to include several reforms to Department of Public Welfare spending in the 2012-13 state budget. Act 80 will save state taxpayers…

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Education

Cyber Schools Under Unfair Attack

  • Priya Brannick
  • July 27, 2012

Last week, a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on Pennsylvania’s cyber schools advanced some common myths and omitted some critical facts about how these popular schools do academically, and how they are…

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Government Accountability

Flava Flav-style Facts Foil Dimock Disaster Drama

  • July 26, 2012

As Public Enemy taught my generation: Don’t believe the hype! That’s never been truer than in digesting the jaw-dropping Dimock disaster drama dumped on the Pennsylvania public…

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Criminal Justice Reform

Don’t Fire Arrows without Arrowheads in Corrections Reform

  • July 24, 2012

Reforming our state corrections system is not being soft on crime—it is being smart on crime. To achieve transformative corrections reform, lawmakers should finish this critical legislative package and build…

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Government Accountability

‘Shocked and Appalled’ by PLCB

  • July 24, 2012

You’ve heard of shock and awe? Well here is ‘shock and appalled,’ brought to you by the duplicitous, doublespeaking Deacons of Distilleries who are at it again, this time dumping…

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Education

Taxpayers Benefit from School Choice

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 23, 2012

I had a letter to the editor in Friday’s edition of the Philadelphia Daily News on the benefits of the expansion of school choice in Pennsylvania for taxpayers…

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