Government Accountability

How Pa. Governments Use Tax Dollars to Pay Associations to Lobby

• Elizabeth Stelle, Jessica Barnett
• December 1, 2021

Prohibiting local governments and government agencies from diverting public funds to these associations would increase transparency and prevent taxpayers’ dollars from funding lobbying harmful to taxpayers.

Backgrounder

5 Reasons Why the Emergency Powers Amendments Are Needed

• Michael Torres
• May 4, 2021

May 4, 2021, Harrisburg, Pa. — Today, members of the Wolf administration held press conferences addressing the emergency powers constitutional amendments on the May primary ballot and Gov. Wolf announced…

Press Release

Op-Ed: Personalized Care Act Empowers Individuals Instead of Bureaucrats

• Colleen Hroncich
• April 1, 2021

The Personalized Care Act won’t solve every problem we face when it comes to health care access. But it would go a long way toward putting individuals in the driver’s…

Commentary

Pa. Governor’s Emergency Powers Out of Step with Most States

• Elizabeth Stelle
• January 15, 2021

Pennsylvania’s emergency powers rules make our state sixth-worst in the nation, tied with others like New York and Delaware, according to the Maine Policy Institute’s Balance of Power Index. The…

Commentary

Energy

Energy Shows Why Regulatory Reform is Key

• Tirzah Duren
• December 21, 2020

Right now in Pennsylvania —the second-largest energy-producing state behind Texas— Governor Wolf is using executive action to attempt to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). This interstate…

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

Op-Ed: Drilling and Fracking Equal Jobs. Does Biden Understand That?

• Kevin Mooney
• November 2, 2020

In the past decade, fracking enabled drillers to reach the gas trapped in that shale quickly and cheaply, creating tens of thousands of jobs in the shale and pipeline service industries alone.

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

Lawmakers Fight Wolf on Cap and Trade Plan

• Kevin Mooney
• September 10, 2020

Governor Wolf is determined to pull Pennsylvania into a multi-state compact that restricts carbon dioxide emissions and raises the cost of power. But thanks to the natural gas revolution Pennsylvania…

Commentary

Health Care

Lawmakers Push to Do Better, Rebuild Our Economy

• Elizabeth Stelle
• September 2, 2020

Today the Republicans in the Pa. House attempted to override the Governor’s veto of HR 836, the bill that would end Pennsylvania’s 6-month long state of emergency and the…

Commentary

Pennsylvania’s “Great” Economy

• Tirzah Duren
• July 27, 2020

The variety of businesses in Pennsylvania manage to function despite the state’s business environment, not because of it.

Commentary