Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania’s Fork in the Road on Transportation Spending

Nathan Benefield
March 14, 2012

Motorists frustrated with high gas prices should be on the alert—your pain at the pump could get worse, and it has nothing to do with Middle East tensions or gas…

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Taxes & Economy

Fighting Fiction with Fracking Facts

March 13, 2012

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking to Tea Party Patriots of Central Pa on environmental aspects of natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania and new Marcellus Shale regulations and…

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Government Accountability

National Popular Vote: Radical Shift in Elections

Nathan Benefield
March 13, 2012

Yesterday, the House Republic Policy Committee held a hearing on National Popular Vote (NPV). If passed, Pennsylvania would join a compact of states agreeing to award their electoral votes…

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Criminal Justice Reform

Chart of the Day: Corrections Spending

March 12, 2012

Today’s chart highlights the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ skyrocketing spending since 1980. This unsustainable growth is part of the four-alarm fire that threatens Pennsylvania’s fiscal house. For more…

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War on Welfare Fraud Raging

March 12, 2012

Look out welfare swindlers, there’s a new sheriff in town and he aims to take you off the street and protect taxpayer money. And that’s not just tough talk; he’s…

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PLCB Smells Like Teen Spirit

March 9, 2012

Smell that, PLCB? No, it’s not what the Rock’s been cookin’ or teen spirit, it’s the sweet smell of freedom wafting from places like Seattle today where Washington state begins the…

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Of Mice, Barbie and Prevailing Wage

March 8, 2012

In March of 1961, the Soviet Union shot a dog, some mice and a guinea pig into space. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., nine black students from Mississippi…

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Criminal Justice Reform

Nurses’ Union Opposes Corrections Reform

March 7, 2012

At yesterday’s House Appropriations Committee, Department of Corrections Sec. John Wetzel explained his roadmap to reducing corrections spending, now the third-largest department in the General Fund Budget. What was…

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Public Union Democracy

Construction Workers Picket Rep. Saylor

Priya Brannick
March 6, 2012

No sooner did we release research documenting the iron grip of Pennsylvania’s labor unions on the commonwealth’s taxpayers than they obliged us with a case-in-point on union bullying tactics.

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