by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The Pennsylvania state budget may deliver some good news for family-owned businesses. Eliminating the inheritance tax for small businesses could be part of the 2013-2014 budget negotiations now ongoing in the statehouse, with a unanimous vote from the House of...
by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2013 | Agenda 21
In a June 20 interview with Spiegel Online, German climate scientist Hans von Storch said that despite predictions of a warming planet the temperature data for the past 15 years shows an increase of 0.06 or “very close to zero.” “That hasn’t happened,” Storch...
by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The Internal Revenue Service sent $7,319,518 in tax refunds in 2011 to what theoretically were 2,706 aliens who were not authorized to work inside the United States and who all used the same bank account, according to an audit report by the Treasury Inspector General...
by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2013 | Agenda 21
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project from Canada to Texas should only be approved if it doesn’t worsen carbon pollution. The pipeline has become a contentious issue, with Republicans touting the jobs it would create...
by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2013 | Agenda 21
President Obama is launching fresh battles over climate change with plans to curb emissions using executive powers that sidestep Congress — including controversial rules to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants. The wide-ranging plan, which Obama will tout...