by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The natural gas market has been transformed by the rapid expansion of shale gas production. A dozen years ago, shale gas amounted to only about 2 percent of United States production. Today, it is 37 percent and rising. Natural gas is in such ample supply...
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 | 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....
by Jane Richey | Jun 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In now-infamous comments on Friday, President Barack Obama informed America that “the private sector is doing fine.” This, of course, was news to the 12.7 million people who are out of work and the millions more who are struggling with the part-time jobs they can...
by Jane Richey | Jun 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Gov. Terry Branstad of Iowa this week became the latest in a string of top Republican state officials to back federal legislation giving states more freedom to collect online sales taxes. Branstad’s letter of support, obtained exclusively by The Hill, comes not long...
