Regulation

Pension COLA has hefty price tag

• Nathan Benefield
• May 5, 2008

Charles Thompson has a story in the Patriot News about the high cost to taxpayers of the propose pension COLA. The Tribune Review also had an article last…

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PA Turnpike’s Operating Costs

• Nathan Benefield
• April 11, 2008

In the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article on Reason’s report that the PA Turnpike is one of the least efficient toll roads in the nation (see here), the Turnpike Commission…

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Taxes & Economy

Big Oil vs. Big Ethanol

• Nathan Benefield
• April 7, 2008

Everyone in Pennsylvania (save the Amish, who are also unlikely to be reading this blog) must have heard or seen the Barack Obama, anti-“Big Oil” ad dozens of…

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Turnpike study called one-sided

• Nathan Benefield
• March 18, 2008

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article exposes the potential bias of authors of a recent Turnpike lease “study”: The study commissioned by state House Democrats was authored by Harvard professor John…

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State Budget

State’s economy, budget are at odds

• Nathan Benefield
• February 18, 2008

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review question the Rendell administration’s glorious reviews of the state’s economy. The size of the state’s economy grew about 20 percent from 1997 to 2006, but…

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Education

School choice suggested for Pittsburgh

• Nathan Benefield
• February 13, 2008

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review discusses how a Milwaukee-like school choice program might work in Pittsburgh, after speaking with former Milwaukee mayor John Norquist. Norquist will be speaking at an event on…

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PTC: We Not Spread Lies

• Nathan Benefield
• January 28, 2008

PA Turnpike Commission’s Tim Carson sent a letter to Toll Roads News in response to their story about the lack of caps on Turnpike tolls under Act…

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Education

Good day for school choice in PA

• Nathan Benefield
• January 24, 2008

The Commonwealth Court ruled that Chester-Upland school district could not limit the number of students enrolling in charter schools. Read the Philadelphia Inquirer story. About 40% of Chester-Upland student…

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Rendell offers toll parameters for Turnpike Lease

• Nathan Benefield
• January 23, 2008

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article covers Governor Rendell’s statements on a potential lease, with the headline that “Turnpike fare increases will be regulated”. The idea that a Turnpike lease would result…

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