by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Hundreds of Penn State students stormed the state’s capital city in hopes of restoring state funding to their university. Gov. Tom Corbett proposed cutting the university’s state funding by 30 percent for the second consecutive year. The proposed cut for...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The economy added 120,000 jobs in March, well below what economists had predicted, while the unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 8.2 percent. The number is nearly half the 210,000 expected and ends the streak of three straight months in which the economy added...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Green groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to force completion of long-planned national regulations to govern disposal of so-called coal ash, a waste product from power plants. “In the absence of national standards requiring safe disposal, coal ash has...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Energy Department said Thursday it expects to begin tentatively approving new taxpayer-backed loans for renewable energy projects in the coming months. The announcement comes about seven months after Solyndra, the California solar firm that received a $535 million...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
“Our fiscal commitments are unsustainable over the long run, but we cannot put our long-run fiscal challenges above all others,” Geithner told the Economic Club of Chicago on Wednesday. “We have to be willing to do things, not just cut things.” Geithner has called the...
