Education

Education: America’s New Civil Right

• February 26, 2013

Education can and should be America's newest civil rights issue.   Today, too many schools are failing too many children. The system is broken, and access to a quality…

Commentary

Liquor Privatization: Just the Facts

• February 9, 2013

In a recent Delaware County Times webcast on Pennsylvania liquor store privatization, on which I was a panelist, there was a great deal of information thrown into the mix which may have…

Commentary

Health Care

Affordable Care Act: Costs to Pennsylvanians

• February 4, 2013

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—often dubbed "Obamacare"—will cost Americans $1.2 trillion from 2012 to 2022 according to the Congressional Budget Office. These projections do not account for the…

Fact Sheet

Regulation

Pension Bomb to Hit Pennsylvania Families

• Nathan Benefield
• January 18, 2013

Are you ready to pay an additional $1,000 in state and local taxes alone?  Prepared to see your child's teacher laid off? Thanks to bad promises politicians made to good…

Commentary

Education

California School Parents Make History

• Priya Brannick
• January 10, 2013

The win didn’t come easy, but parents at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif. finally prevailed this week in putting the failing school under new charter school management, becoming…

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Education

What’s Behind Pennsylvania’s D+ on Education?

• Priya Brannick
• January 9, 2013

StudentsFirst, a bipartisan education reform group, released report cards for all 50 states evaluating individual state education laws and policies—and the news wasn’t good for Pennsylvania,…

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Health Care

Hidden Costs of Obamacare Exposed

• Elizabeth Stelle, Nathan Benefield
• December 14, 2012

While much has been written about the cost of the exchange and the Medicaid expansion, a mountain of hidden mandates could cost Pennsylvania taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars over…

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Education

Handouts Hurting Poor, Help Up a Better Way

• Charles Mitchell
• December 12, 2012

The holidays are a great time to be grateful for the gifts we've received.  And, as we remember well, fallen Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney claimed that some Americans have…

Commentary

Public Union Democracy

Distilleries Despot Delivers Tinctures Tantrum

• December 10, 2012

Desperately seeking to hold on to a shred of credibility and hope lawmakers aren’t watching the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board majestically implode under “Vinogate,” United Food and Commercial Workers…

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