by Jane Richey | Apr 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Bucks County’s allotment of $75 million in federal stimulus money has stimulated about 82 jobs in an average month over the last three years, according to records released by the federal government. That’s not a cumulative figure, since the jobs have been temporary....
by Jane Richey | Apr 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Fewer rank-and-file members in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives would increase the flow of ideas as all sides could be heard during debates on legislation, said the top man in the House. But a smaller Legislature may have unforeseen consequences — more...
by Jane Richey | Apr 2, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
As They Look To Restore Proposed Cuts to higher education and other state programs, it’ll be up to state lawmakers,and not Governor Corbett, to find the money to do that, administration Budget Secretary Charles Zogby said Sunday. In an appearance on the...
by Jane Richey | Apr 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Gov. Tom Corbett is taking steps toward hiring a private company to run the Pennsylvania state lottery, the latest move by the Republican to shift state services to the private sector. The administration has briefed top lawmakers and labor union representatives on an...
by Jane Richey | Apr 2, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
There aren’t many American-owned companies more iconic than Anheuser-Busch, the famous producer of Budweiser beer based in St. Louis, Missouri. That was true up until 2008, when the Brazilian-Belgian company InBev executed a hostile takeover of the historic brewer,...
by Jane Richey | Apr 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Senate Republican staffers continue to look though the 2010 health care reform law to see what’s in it, and their latest discovery is a massive $17 trillion funding gap. “The more we learn about the bill, the more we learn it is even more unaffordable than was...
