State Budget

Pennsylvania’s $1.9 Billion Budget Shortfall

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 1, 2011

The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue released preliminary FY 2010-11 revenue collection. Their statement says: Fiscal year 2010-11 General Fund collections totaled $27.5 billion, which is $785.5 million,…

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State Budget

The Good, The Bad and The Undone

  • July 1, 2011

The Commonwealth Foundation praised Gov. Tom Corbett and the General Assembly for closing Pennsylvania’s $4.2 billion budget gap without raising taxes on working Pennsylvanians, but a thorough review of the…

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Government Accountability

Spending Transparency Coming to Pennsylvania at Last

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • June 30, 2011

Pennsylvania taxpayers are one step closer to finding out exactly how state government spends their money. Yesterday, the legislature passed HB 15 to establish PennWATCH—a free public spending database…

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State Budget

Pennsylvania Budget for Smarties

  • June 30, 2011

The total state operating budget is $64 billion...and will be reduced for the first time in at least 40 years. While adults employed in public schools complain education is being…

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Regulation

Big Brother Buys Booze Brother

  • June 30, 2011

MOSCOW HARRISBURG (June 30) – If there’s something strange, in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Apparently Dan Aykroyd, if you’re the buck burning booze brokers known…

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Nation’s Eyes upon PA GOP

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • June 28, 2011

With a Republican-controlled Senate and a Republican-controlled House, national news outlets are joining Pennsylvania citizens who are starting to wonder why Republican Gov. Tom Corbett isn’t able to deliver on his campaign promises.  One…

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Regulation

Chairman Wow Commends Kiosk Catastrophe

  • June 27, 2011

MOSCOW HARRISBURG – From the “They Just Don’t Get It” file comes confirmation from the commissar himself that Orwellian doublespeak is alive and well in Pennsylvania government. In…

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Education

Do Seven Rapes Get Your Attention?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 27, 2011

Today, CF delivered Life Savers to state legislators to remind them they still have three days to be a life-saver for kids in failing and violent schools.  One…

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Education

Tightening the Belt on Higher Education

  • June 27, 2011

Tuition rates continue to skyrocket year after year, but the cost of providing a college education hasn’t increased much over the past 50 years. In a recent Cato study,…

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