Health Care

Solving Health Care Without Obamacare Headaches

• Nathan Benefield
• September 23, 2014

Montana’s Rib and Chop House in the Pittsburgh area is taking an innovative approach to providing health care coverage to employees, in spite of Obamacare. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports…

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Booze Lose: PLCB Proposes Increased Mark-up Price

• August 14, 2014

Get ready to empty the piggy bank because soon you could be paying the government even more for your booze. At least, that’s the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s (PLCB) latest…

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Government Accountability

Agreed: Public Resources Should not be used for Politics

• Nathan Benefield
• August 6, 2014

“Public resources are not supposed to be used for partisan political purposes.” So says Barry Kauffman of Common Cause PA in a Tribune Review article. What Mr. Kauffman…

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Public Union Democracy

Government Union CEOs Make Their Own Rules

• Nathan Benefield
• May 15, 2014

When questioned about why he failed to register as a lobbyist, UFCW president Wendell Young IV excused himself with a special exemption from the law that doesn’t exist. He told…

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Taxes & Economy

Severance Tax Benefits the Powerful at Citizens’ Expense

• Gordon Tomb
• May 6, 2014

Washington County farmer Shawn Georgetti was living paycheck to paycheck before the Marcellus Shale boom. Thanks to a natural gas lease, he’s finally been able to upgrade his 30-year-old equipment.

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Education

Charter School Reform

• Nathan Benefield
• March 14, 2014

Good morning, my name is Nathan Benefield; I am the vice president of policy analysis for the Commonwealth Foundation. I wish to thank Auditor General DePasquale for the opportunity to…

Testimony

Public Union Democracy

CF Calls Out Union Ad Campaign’s Deceptions

• March 4, 2014

For Immediate Release Commonwealth Foundation Contact: 717-671-1901 National Teachers’ Union Fibs in Political Attack Ad Uses taxpayer resources to do it March 4, 2014, HARRISBURG, PA—Today,…

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Public Union Democracy

A War on Truth

• February 14, 2014

Should you be forced to subsidize government union politics? That’s the question asked by a reform gaining steam in Harrisburg called paycheck protection. But you wouldn’t know it by listening…

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Public Union Democracy

Consensus Growing on Paycheck Protection

• January 31, 2014

Earlier this week, we spotlighted editorials from the Wall Street Journal and Investor’s Business Daily urging Pennsylvania to pass paycheck protection legislation. While national attention raises awareness of this…

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