Taxes & Economy

Time to cook Pennsylvania’s “lame-duck” session

• Matthew Brouillette
• November 11, 2004

It is fundamental to democracy that voters have information--about candidates, about issues, about proposed solutions to problems. It also is fundamental that voters have information in time to influence the…

Commentary

Government Accountability

Give Taxpayers Same Deal Legislators Get

• November 10, 2004

Members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly are set to receive their annual automatic pay increase on December 1. Now keep in mind that our state legislators are already, according to…

Commentary

Rail Transit: “Corridor One”

• November 10, 2004

Although everyone agrees that traffic congestion and air pollution are neither good nor desirable for Central Pennsylvania, regional rail transit—otherwise known as “Corridor One”—is not the solution to these problems.

Fact Sheet

Public Union Democracy

Time to Labor to End Compulsory Unionism

• October 31, 2004

"We want a legislative program led by leaders and staff with sufficient clout that they may roam the halls of Congress and collect votes to reorder the priorities of the…

Commentary

Education

Union Propaganda Can’t Hide Charter Schools’ Success

• October 24, 2004

There they go again. Back in July 2002, during a slow news period, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a school employee labor union, issued a widely cited report "showing"…

Commentary

Regulation

Telecommunications

• October 14, 2004

The debate over the future of high-tech communications development in Pennsylvania parallels the debate over statewide economic development policy in general: Should state government raise taxes on families and businesses…

Fact Sheet

Taxes & Economy

Some truth in advertising, please!

• September 21, 2004

As visitors to Harrisburg approach the State Capitol, they'll likely notice a number of quotations from luminaries of Pennsylvania history--including William Penn and Benjamin Franklin--testifying to the virtue of liberty.

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

Liberty: The Highest Political End

• Matthew Brouillette
• September 15, 2004

Mark Twain supposedly once quipped that "No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session." He must have had the Pennsylvania General Assembly in mind.

Commentary

Education

How to Increase Teacher Pay

• Matthew Brouillette
• September 7, 2004

Few people will disagree that the best school teachers are often paid less than they deserve. But even fewer people agree when it comes to figuring out what to do…

Commentary