Education

2009 SAT Scores by State

• Nathan Benefield
• August 28, 2009

EDITORS NOTE: Click here for the 2014 SAT Scores by state The College Board has released data on 2009 SAT Scores.  I’ve compiled the data into a spreadsheet of…

Media

Regulation

Pennsylvania Municipal Pension Reform in a Nutshell

• Elizabeth Stelle
• August 27, 2009

Yesterday the Senate approved HB 1828, a long and complicated bill full of so-called pension reforms and potential local tax increases. Here’s a basic summary of the provisions following…

Media

Taxes & Economy

Should Existing Interstate Highways Be Tolled?

• Nathan Benefield
• August 26, 2009

Interesting question posed by National Journal on tolling of existing freeways, with particular focus on tolling I-80 in Pennsylvania, offering several experts the opportunity to respond.  Pennsylvania Congressman Glenn…

Media

Regulation

Keep on Truckin’

• August 26, 2009

With Harrisburg gridlocked by the state budget impasse and Washington battling over national health care, an issue vital to Pennsylvania lurks below the radar.  The debate is over…

Commentary

High Speed Rail Proposal Just Another Way to Waste Taxpayer Dollars

• Nathan Benefield
• August 26, 2009

The Patriot News highlights Pennsylvania’s latest request of $28.2 million for high-speed rail projects from the federal stimulus. Here is our recent commentary by Randal O’Toole on…

Media

Regulation

Lack of Subsidy Spooks Movie Director

• August 26, 2009

The remorse is almost audible in when people talk about the loss of filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie Devil to Canada, ostensibly because of the budget impasse. What…

Media

Regulation

The Pennsylvania Pension Bailout

• Elizabeth Stelle
• August 25, 2009

Pennsylvania legislators are drawing nearer to implementing a bailout bill for Philadelphia and a state takeover for insolvent municipal pension funds in cities like Pittsburgh. While pension reforms are…

Media

Health Care

ObamaCare Is Bad Medicine for Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• August 25, 2009

America faces divergent prescriptions for health care reform—one calling for more government control, the other for patient empowerment.   Unfortunately President Obama, Governor Rendell, and Democrats in Congress and…

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania Sales Tax Exemptions

• Nathan Benefield
• August 25, 2009

There has been some discussion lately about filling the Pennsylvania budget hole with additional revenue by expanding the state sales tax to include currently exempt goods, services, or categories.

Media