Education

Massive Strategic Victory for Kids

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • July 16, 2012

I've long been convinced that Thomas Jefferson was exactly right when he wrote, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never…

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Regulation

Liquor Privatization: Just the Facts

  • July 16, 2012

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…

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Public Union Democracy

Union Bosses Fight to Stay Relevant

  • Priya Brannick
  • July 12, 2012

Labor unions are so livid that the Democratic Party is having its national convention in North Carolina—a right to work state, and the country’s least unionized—that they are staging…

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Taxes & Economy

EPA Wants to Scare Jobs Out of Pennsylvania

  • July 6, 2012

The Environmental Protection Agency’s derailing of American’s economy is frightening enough to scare even the Ghostbusters (and they ain’t afraid of no ghost). Pennsylvania will be the 7th hardest hit…

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Education

Would You Rather Kids Share Books, or Get Booked?

  • Charles Mitchell
  • June 26, 2012

I’m writing right now from the road, specifically from the poorest city in America:  Reading, Pennsylvania.  Reading is one of the cities mentioned in today’s CF news release pointing…

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Regulation

The Unseen Effect of Cracker Credits

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 5, 2012

Gov. Tom Corbett is reportedly pushing a targeted tax credit for Shell and other companies that locate an ethane processing plant—often called a “cracker” plant—in Pennsylvania. The credit would…

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State Budget

This is the Change You’ve Been Looking For

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 7, 2012

I had the opportunity to hear Scott Rasmussen speak last week. The theme of his speech was “change”—as in how policy change happens. The lesson he gave was that policy…

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Government Accountability

I Did It for Them – Did You?

  • April 24, 2012

There’s no hiding it, I don’t even try.  I’m proud to be an American veteran and to be a part of something so much larger than myself through serving in…

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Welfare

Why We Are Losing the War on Poverty

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • April 17, 2012

Michael Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies at the Cato Institute, published a study that cuts to the heart of the poverty problem in the U.S. Tanner writes…

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