Government Accountability

Senate Open Records Reform: Good, But Can Be Better

• October 28, 2007

State government watchdogs provide input on proposed SB 1 changes HARRISBURG – The effort to overhaul Pennsylvania’s Open Records law will take center stage at the rescheduled Senate State Government…

Press Release

Biofuels Report: “No more Subsidies!”

• Nathan Benefield
• October 26, 2007

Earth Track has released a report titled Biofuels – At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in the United States: 2007 Update. The…

Media

State Lawmakers Argue Gaming Board Lacks Authority

• Nathan Benefield
• October 25, 2007

ABC 27 article and video on the latest controversy over at the Gaming Control Board: The Philadelphia Inquirer reports DeNaples is being investigated by a Dauphin County…

Media

Criminal Justice Reform

Private Prisons Increase Capacity, Save Money, Improve Service

• Nathan Benefield
• October 24, 2007

Good Afternoon, my name is Nathan Benefield, I am the Director of Policy Research with the Commonwealth Foundation, a research and educational organization based in Harrisburg. I would like to…

Testimony

PennFuture: Give Governor Rendell power to control the weather

• Nathan Benefield
• October 18, 2007

The environmental group Penn Future released a “PennFuture Facts” calling for the PA General Assembly to pass parts of its agenda. Yet the alarmist “facts” they use are so…

Media

Ethanol’s Water Shortage

• Nathan Benefield
• October 17, 2007

Wall Street Journal piece with more on the problems with ethanol mandates and subsidies: Writing in Science magazine, Renton Righelato and Dominick Spracklen estimate that in order…

Media

Sweep The Judges?

• Nathan Benefield
• October 12, 2007

The Bulletin offers an insightful discussion of the PA Clean Sweep’s push for rejecting all judges up for retention. While we don’t offer advice on how to vote,…

Media

Preschool for All!

• Nathan Benefield
• October 3, 2007

National Review article (from Free Library) on the push for government-run “universal preschool”: The irony is that early education is already an American strength. The National Center for…

Media

Taxes & Economy

Energy Policy

• September 25, 2007

Governor Ed Rendell has proposed issuing $850 million in new debt to subsidize select “alternative energy” companies and energy conservation efforts, along with a mandate that every gallon of…

Fact Sheet