Education

School Choice: The ABC’s

• Nathan Benefield
• January 23, 2012

In time for National School Choice Week, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice released its 2012 ABC’s of School Choice. The new guide gives an overview of what…

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Taxes & Economy

Will Anti-Gas Political Climate Prevent 10,000 Jobs?

• January 17, 2012

U.S. Senators Bob Casey and Pat Toomey, along with Gov. Tom Corbett, have been lobbying for Shell to invest their petroleum chemistry plant, known as a “cracker”…

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Criminal Justice Reform

Time for Pennsylvania to Get Right on Crime

• January 17, 2012

Last week on NPR, former U.S. Attorney General and Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh joined Adam Gelb, director for Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project, to discuss criminal justice…

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313 More Reasons to End PLCB Booze

• January 11, 2012

Pop quiz:  Who has to pay for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s $66 million (and growing) inventory software failure, a million-plus in the wine kiosk catastrophe or the…

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Education

A Decade Left Behind

• Matthew Brouillette
• January 11, 2012

My first career started a few decades ago in the classroom as a high school history teacher.  While much has changed since then – including the use of technology and…

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

Calvin Coolidge, Tom Corbett, and Why Politics Isn’t Like Business

• Charles Mitchell
• December 30, 2011

My wife is awesome.  As proof, I submit to you the fact that she willingly parted with 35 bucks in order to give me The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge for…

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Union Party vs. Taxpayer Party: PA’s Political Paradigm

• Matthew Brouillette
• December 20, 2011

If you don’t receive our Weekly Update every Monday via email, here’s what you missed yesterday.  If you want to get these updates directly, sign up here. Dear…

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Taxes & Economy

New Study Show Impact of Shale Gas

• December 12, 2011

Hot on the heels of UGI Utilities’ 13 percent reduction in gas rates, comes a comprehensive study examining the impact of shale gas on the economy nationwide. The report…

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Education

The Right Questions for Penn State

• Charles Mitchell
• November 23, 2011

Stacy Brown of the Pennsylvania Independent—which, in the interests of full disclosure, CF launched but no longer controls in any way—is asking the right questions this morning in his…

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