State Budget

Latest PA Budget Update from Sen. Pileggi

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 28, 2010

PA Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi was the speaker at today’s Press Club in Harrisburg, offering some updates on the budget negotiations, and some comments on the fiscal cliff Pennsylvania…

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Taxes & Economy

The Environment Impact of Natural Gas Drilling

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 28, 2010

Concerns about the environment impact of natural gas drilling are well-founded, but often overstated. A common misconception is that the hydraulic fracturing process has contaminated many wells and groundwater.

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Government Accountability

CF Blog Roundup

  • June 28, 2010

Here is what bloggers are giving CF some linkage for lately: Lehigh Valley Conservative and Bill Lawrence gave us some linkage for our breakdown of the recently…

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Regulation

The Terror of Unlicensed Interior Designers

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 25, 2010

The Patriot News has a short article about Pennsylvania lawmakers consider legislation to require interior designers to get a license with the state. To get a license, an interior…

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State Budget

Balancing the PA Budget with Gimmicks

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 24, 2010

The temperature is in the 90s in Harrisburg this week, and most folks are wearing short sleeves. One exception is budget negotiators, who are still keeping plenty of tricks up…

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Government Accountability

How to Discourage Accounting Gimmicks in the Budget

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • June 23, 2010

The Rendell administration celebrated the end of the tax amnesty program bringing in $261 million, well above projected revenues. But Capitolwire (subscription only) reminds us the Governor was originally…

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Taxes & Economy

Re: Hypocrisy of ‘Conservation Voters’

  • June 23, 2010

Offering more evidence that CVPA’s call for Tom Corbett to return campaign contributions was a partisan stunt, Anadarko also gave Sen. Arlen Specter…

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