Education

Save Our Schools or Save Our Kids?

  • May 23, 2012

Throngs of anti-parental choice supporters have rallied in Philadelphia today, demanding more taxpayer dollars for their cause.  According to Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Kristen Graham via her Twitter feed @newskag,…

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Taxes & Economy

PA to Copy Missouri’s Failed Land Banking Policy

  • April 3, 2012

Pennsylvania is close to adopting Missouri’s 40 year old failed land banking policy. House Bill 1682, which has already passed the House and the Senate’s Urban Affairs and…

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Got Freedom? PLCB Has No App for That!

  • February 28, 2012

Ah yes, the Merry Minions of Merlot, makers of mediocrity, mismanagement and the modish mockery of “modernization” are at it again.  But instead of truly bringing us into the 21st…

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Poll: 81% Choose Bootlegging Over PLCB Hikes

  • January 12, 2012

So just what effects do monopolies have on markets?  You need look no further than Philadelphia this morning for the answer. An online Philadelphia Inquirer poll has found more…

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Taxes & Economy

Do Millionaires Need Food Stamps?

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • January 11, 2012

For the past few years, politicians in Harrisburg and Washington have considered it a “success” to put more families on welfare. The result is an abundance of loopholes that allow…

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Regulation

Wine Kiosks: One of These Things is Not Like the Others

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 31, 2011

Yesterday, Auditor General Jack Wagner released an audit of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s wine kiosk program. Following that, PLCB CEO Joe Conti talked with capitol reporters. In the…

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PLCB Never Fails to Fail

  • August 2, 2011

A hat tip to Fox 29 Philadelphia reporter Dave Schratwieser who helped uncover the tipsy taxpayer-tabbed trailer truth behind the PLCB’s recently discovered waste and mismanagement found in a…

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Taxes & Economy

Debating a Natural Gas Tax

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • August 1, 2011

Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer features two editorials debating a natural gas jobs tax. The Inquirer‘s editorial board begins its article with a straw-man argument, that tax opponents’ claim the industry…

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