by Jane Richey | Mar 2, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
Students from three Philadelphia colleges marched through the city, yesterday, to protest cuts in state education funding. They converged at Governor Corbett’s Center City office at the Bellevue. Student leaders say the afternoon rush traffic snarls were not an...
by Jane Richey | Mar 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
A year after the government’s chief investigators identified 81 areas where the government double-spends or could cut costs, President Obama and Congress have solved just four of them, the Government Accountability Office said in a follow-up report Tuesday. In another...
by Jane Richey | Mar 1, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
From the Commonwealth Foundation: Welfare spending in Pennsylvania is out of control. The Department of Public Welfare is now the largest department in the state. It will continue to crowd out education, environmental protection and public safety if the status quo...
by Jane Richey | Mar 1, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed budget for 2012-13 was a real discussion starter. From cuts to higher education and changes to public welfare programs, there’s been no shortage of issues to dissect in the $27.14 billion spending plan. But no segment of the...
by Jane Richey | Mar 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The top Republican on the Senate’s budget panel is prepared to battle Republican Gov. Tom Corbett over proposed cuts to higher education spending. State Sen. Jake Corman, R-Centre, whose district includes the main campus of Penn State, said the state’s colleges...
by Jane Richey | Mar 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
State Democratic senators are challenging Gov. Tom Corbett’s top public welfare official over the administration’s moves to stop the growth of spending despite rising demand and health care costs. Sen. Vincent Hughes asked Public Welfare Secretary Gary...
