Government Accountability

Break Up SEPTA

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • November 10, 2009

How can Pennsylvania lawmakers avoid this mess? The first step is to open mass transit in Philadelphia to competitive contracting, whereby private companies would compete to operate SEPTA's network.

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Public Union Democracy

If Your Erection Lasts Longer than a SEPTA Strike …

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 9, 2009

Alex Charyna points out this tidbit in the Philadelphia Daily News – one demand of the SEPTA union was more Viagra: Yes, it appears that labor issues…

Media

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Public Union Democracy

SEPTA Union Doesn’t Represent “The Working Class”

  • November 4, 2009

About 5,100 union workers for SEPTA went on strike early Tuesday, leaving 450,000 people to find new ways to travel. The union is demanding a 4% raise and an…

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Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to Reapply to Toll I-80

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 27, 2009

Tom Barnes in the Post-Gazette has a story on how some Pennsylvania lawmakers, who hail from nowhere near the I-80 corridor, want the Turnpike Commission to reapply to toll…

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CorridorOne: Every Rose has its Thorn

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 2, 2008

When we last heard mention of CorridorOne, the proposed transit rail line in the Harrisburg area that no one will ride, supporters were defending federal earmarks – because subverting…

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Turnpike Lease Resources

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 19, 2008

More information on many of topics I addressed in my testimony on a Turnpike Lease Free analysis of costly Turnpike study PolicyPoint: Act 44…

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