Taxes & Economy

When Your Ideas Harm Taxpayers, Make Stuff Up

• Charles Mitchell
• July 22, 2010

The Patriot-News has been all over the Commonwealth Foundation’s recent report exposing the activities of PennFuture, the environmental lobbying group whose former president is in charge of Gov. Rendell’s Department…

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Taxes & Economy

The PennFuture Scandal: We’re Not Mudslinging

• Nathan Benefield
• July 22, 2010

Jan Murphy of the Patriot-News did a fine job in her Sunday article, giving an evenhanded account of our report on PennFuture’s lobbying, but the…

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Government Accountability

I&R: Our Inalienable Right to Reform

• Nathan Benefield
• July 22, 2010

It is clear our government will not reform itself.  Article I, Section 2 of the Pennsylvania Constitution recognizes the right of the citizens to "alter, reform or abolish their government…

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State Budget

Check Out State Budget Solutions

• Nathan Benefield
• July 22, 2010

State Budget Solutions is a new website put together by a coalition of free-market organizations. They’ve been up for a while with a “soft launch,” but had their “hard…

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$316,000 Apartments for Low-Income Families in Tamaqua

• July 21, 2010

The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) has approved $3.8 million in financing to convert an old building in Tamaqua into 12 apartments to house low-to-moderate tenants. The committee awarded…

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Taxes & Economy

Natural Gas & Forced Pooling

• July 21, 2010

The soon-to-be unbalanced FY 2010-11 state budget, included language that a severance tax on natural gas would be passed in Pennsylvania by October 1. Many drillers would support a…

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Education

New School Choice Legislation Introduced in PA Senate

• July 20, 2010

Sen. Anthony Williams (D-Philadelphia) introduced Senate Bill 1405, the Opportunity Scholarship Act, last month with three Republican co-sponsors.  This legislation represent a huge opportunity to increase parental choice in…

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Regulation

PA’s Largest Employers Then and Now

• July 20, 2010

The Center for Workforce Information & Analysis provides a list of Pennsylvania’s top 50 employers in ranked order. In 1967, Pennsylvania’s top five largest employers were: U.S. Steel Corporation…

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Taxes & Economy

PennFuture Corrects IRS Returns, Owns Private Energy Conservation Company

• Nathan Benefield
• July 19, 2010

Jan Murphy of the Patriot News features a story on PennFuture’s lobbying. The story reveals two facts that did not appear in our exposé. First, despite…

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