by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Free Markets
Mayor Nutter has been boasting about the number of construction cranes appearing on the Philadelphia skyline, a sign of the city’s renewal after a long, hard recession. One more arrived Wednesday at the Goldtex site in the Loft District, which since March has...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Livestock farmers and ranchers seeing their feed costs rise because of the worst drought in a quarter-century are demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency waive production requirements for corn-based ethanol. One-third of House members have also signed onto...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Agenda 21, Politics
The Natural Resources Conservation Service, a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, operates 9,516 vehicles even though it only has 11,605 employees. That works out to one vehicle for every 1.2 employees. The service promotes itself, in part, as a component of...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Politics
The IRS showed more interest in processing applications for a taxpayer identification number than in vetting those requests for fraud, according to a federal audit publicly released Wednesday. The revenue service’s review of applications for Individual Taxpayer...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Unemployment is at 8.3 percent. The economy is sputtering at 1.5 percent growth. Food prices are rising due to drought conditions across the country. And gas prices are up again, pinching Americans’ summer budgets. It is past time for the President and Congress to...
