Education

Academic Achievement Stagnates

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 4, 2011

Pennsylvania students are not making much academic progress according to 2011 PSSA test results. The Patriot-News reports small gains were not enough to keep some central Pennsylvania school districts…

Media

Frackophobes With Egg on Their Face

• Nathan Benefield
• September 15, 2011

While Pennsylvania dealt with the realities of floods last week, frackophobic Penn Environment exploited the disaster by flooding the blogosphere with fear through positing a picture that led…

Media

Regulation

Growing Greener is Corporate Welfare

• Nathan Benefield
• June 22, 2011

The Patriot News editorial board has yet another editorial arguing for a new tax on natural gas, on top of the taxes they already pay. While the board’s passion…

Media

Regulation

PLCB’s Consumer Ca$htastrophe Continues

• May 2, 2011

In another blinding flash of the obvious, the PLCB, Pennsylvania’s purveyors of perestroika, revealed in a Harrisburg Patriot News article today what we already knew:  The supermarket wine kiosks…

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Education

The Bubble Bursts at Penn State

• Charles Mitchell
• March 24, 2011

The story is told that when someone asked John D. Rockefeller how much money is enough, he responded, "Just one dollar more."  Penn State's President, Graham Spanier, like most college…

Commentary

Education

Parents Mustn’t Fall for Penn State Claims

• Charles Mitchell
• March 21, 2011

In an op-ed in Sunday’s Harrisburg Patriot-News, Penn State President Graham Spanier repeated his now-familiar claims that his institution must receive more from taxpayers than the $165 million…

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State Budget

Understanding the Pennsylvania State Budget

• Nathan Benefield
• March 7, 2011

Pennsylvania's total state operating budget for FY 2010-11 is approximately $65.4 billion-or $5,193 for every man, woman and child in the commonwealth.  This policy brief looks at the entire state…

Fact Sheet

Regulation

With Government Booze, Consumers Lose

• February 4, 2011

It’s funny how we keep hearing union mouthpiece Wendell Young proclaim how much an asset full government control over the liquor sales business is to Pennsylvania consumers, yet consumers still…

Media

You Know That There is Something Wrong with the Education System if?

• January 28, 2011

You’re willing to risk going to jail in order to send your child to a better school. A national story out of Ohio that broke earlier this week has the…

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