Regulation

CF Applauds Initial Liquor Liberty Law Proposal

July 7, 2011

HARRISBURG, Pa.,-Commonwealth Foundation wholeheartedly praised House Majority Leader Mike Turzai for filing a proposal today seeking co-sponsors for his bill that would end the state’s liquor monopoly. Turzai’s bill will…

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Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania’s Economic Outlook Among Nation’s Worst

July 7, 2011

The annual Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index ranked Pennsylvania among the least economically promising states. Since 2008, Pennsylvania’s economic outlook has dropped from 36th…

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Education

President Obama Is Right

Charles Mitchell
July 6, 2011

Savor that headline, because you won’t see it on this blog too often. But it’s true. As our friend Lindsey Burke at the Heritage Foundation points out, today at…

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Education

Corbett’s First Inning Scorecard

Nathan Benefield
July 6, 2011

July signals the coming of two breaks in Pennsylvania—Major League Baseball's All-Star break and the end of the state budget season. Having endured his first budget as the commonwealth's chief…

Commentary

Pa. liquor board reports record sales in 2010-11

July 6, 2011

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Education

Will the “Year of School Choice” Come to PA?

Charles Mitchell
July 5, 2011

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an editorial that begins as follows: School may be out for the summer, but school choice is in, as states across the nation…

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Public Union Democracy

Disappointing Results from State Union Contract Deals

Priya Brannick
July 5, 2011

So far, the Corbett administration has concluded new four-year contracts with Pennsylvania’s two largest state worker unions, which represent 55,000 government workers—and the taxpayers are the losers. The deals with…

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PLCB: Oops, We’re Not MOST Un-American!

July 5, 2011

MOSCOW HARRISBURG (July 5) — In a troublesome twist by the problematic potables policemen, a PLCB spokesperson contacted CF directly this afternoon to notify us that the mysterious disappearance of an agency…

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Regulation

PLCB Pulls Puzzling Perestroika Presser

July 5, 2011

In a mystifying maneuver made by the mother of all monopolies, the puzzling purveyors of Pennsylvania Perestroika, the PLCB, pulled a press release from the wire and its Web site today that…

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