Regulation

PLCB is $30 Million in the Hole

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 30, 2011

As Jay noted earlier, Auditor General Jack Wagner and a number of defenders of the current government monopoly argue that the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) is a great…

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AG: Perestroika Better Than Freedom

  • November 30, 2011

They may take our wines, but they can never take our freedom! Okay, maybe they can take both? According to a report posted on Fox 43 Harrisburg today, Pennsylvania Auditor General…

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Education

Improving Public Education…Through School Choice

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 28, 2011

Here is a letter to the editor I submitted to the Pocono Record, correcting the record on school choice: Your editorial, “Support your public schools” bashes school choice…

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Education

The Right Questions for Penn State

  • Charles Mitchell
  • November 23, 2011

Stacy Brown of the Pennsylvania Independent—which, in the interests of full disclosure, CF launched but no longer controls in any way—is asking the right questions this morning in his…

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Taxes & Economy

Sky Darkens for Solar Mandates

  • November 21, 2011

HB 1580, which we wrote about previously, would accelerate state mandates for utilities to use solar power as part of their electricity portfolio. A new Energy Association of…

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Public Union Democracy

Right to Work Helps Oklahoma Economy

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 21, 2011

A new analysis from the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs shows that since the Sooner State passed a right to work law in 2001—allowing all workers to choose whether…

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Education

The Lesson of Ohio Might Not Be What You Think

  • Charles Mitchell
  • November 18, 2011

The Wall Street Journal recently featured a very short, very striking piece on the defeat of much-needed limits on the power of government unions in Ohio. The conventional wisdom on…

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Taxes & Economy

Gas Drilling for Pennsylvania’s Farms, Family and Future

  • November 16, 2011

Across Pennsylvania, natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale has benefited not just companies but also human beings -- by creating tens of thousands of jobs, rescuing families from foreclosure,…

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Education

Teacher Evaluation Bill Up for Committee Vote

  • Priya Brannick
  • November 15, 2011

Reforming Pennsylvania’s teacher evaluation system is an important leg of Gov. Tom Corbett’s education reform agenda, along with school vouchers, charter school reform, and expanding the successful Educational Improvement Tax…

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