by Jane Richey | Jun 11, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
Pennsylvania plans to borrow a $4.5 billion bond to help pay off debt from the federal Unemployment Trust Fund, which stands about $3.9 billion, the third highest in the nation. But legislators were divided over who would benefit from this bill: employers, employees...
by Jane Richey | Jun 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Lawmakers briefed on Gov. Tom Corbett’s package of financial incentives for a planned petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania said Friday that it could also include the cost to clean up pollution from the zinc smelter that has operated there for decades....
by Jane Richey | Jun 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Philadelphia has the highest obesity rate and poorest population of America’s big cities. It also has an ambitious plan — launched out of 632 corner stores — to put healthy food on every table. The $900,000 investment in better health depends on apples and oranges,...
by Jane Richey | Jun 11, 2012 | Politics
Though Mitt Romney has sewn up the Republican presidential nomination, some tea party activists remain unconvinced of his conservative credentials and plan to abstain in November. “I have heard from various folks in the tea party that they would rather stay home,”...
by Jane Richey | Jun 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
House Republicans were joined Thursday by three-dozen Democrats to repeal part of Obama’s health care law – a tax on medical devices. The GOP has launched a full court press, saying bipartisan opposition to the tax illustrates the illegitimacy of all of Obamacare....
