Education

Talking School Choice with Dick Armey

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 1, 2011

This week, CF Senior Fellow Jeff Coleman sat down with Dick Armey, former congressman and U.S. House Majority Leader and now Chairman of FreedomWorks, to talk about…

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Regulation

On Pennsylvania’s Job Growth

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 31, 2011

Former Gov. Ed Rendell emerged from his semi-retirement to toot his own horn, saying his spending is why Pennsylvania’s economy is so great. Rendell cites statistics that Pennsylvania ranks…

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Taxes & Economy

When an Impact Fee is Really a Tax

  • March 31, 2011

The debate over an “impact fee” on natural gas for local communities experiencing drilling is becoming less and less about local communities and more about how lawmakers can get…

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Taxes & Economy

PA State Budget Overview

  • March 29, 2011

Today, CF’s Nathan Benefield is speaking at the Restoring America Summit & Rally in Coraopolis, Pa.  You can find his presentation on Pennsylvania state spending, the budget and recommended…

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Obamacare: We Can’t Keep the Change

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 29, 2011

In the days before the new health care law passed Congress last year, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said that we would "have to pass the bill to find out…

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Criminal Justice Reform

Prisoners Cost Less in Michigan than in Pennsylvania

  • March 28, 2011

Last week, Gov. Tom Corbett announced that more than 2,000 inmates previously housed in Michigan and Virginia are returning to Pennsylvania prisons. The problem is that it’s cheaper…

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Education

Students’ Ire Is Misplaced

  • Charles Mitchell
  • March 28, 2011

As I write this, there are Pennsylvania college students walking past our State Capitol holding signs reading, “Save Our System.”  It’s understandable:  Since Gov. Corbett outlined his budget, these students…

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Education

Pennsylvanians Support School Choice

  • March 24, 2011

Muhlenberg College polled more than 470 Pennsylvanians for the Morning Call. Several questions focused on expanding school choice in Pennsylvania; here’s what the poll found: Muhlenberg College Poll Question…

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Education

The Bubble Bursts at Penn State

  • Charles Mitchell
  • March 24, 2011

The story is told that when someone asked John D. Rockefeller how much money is enough, he responded, "Just one dollar more."  Penn State's President, Graham Spanier, like most college…

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