The Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee put out a preliminary report on the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) a few months ago, but the report has been sitting on my desk waiting for my Internet access to go down before I read it.
The report includes a lot of [...]
From the Toomey Campaign:
What a week! With the help of Team Toomey and many people like you across the state, Judge Joan Orie Melvin and 5 other Republican statewide judicial candidates were elected to the Pennsylvania courts on Tuesday. One other race is in a [...]
First day for former Democratic House Member Sean Ramaley. The charge is that Sean Ramaley’s 2004 general election campaign was financed by government tax dollars and, in particularly, then Pennsylvania State employee, Stephen Webb, while on government payroll, worked full time on Sean Ramaley’s 2004 campaign. The [...]
The benevolent Department of Community and Economic Development most recently bestowed its generosity on the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Central Pennsylvania by awarding it $20,000. This money will "help start-ups and other businesses."
Incidentally, the Chamber president, Paul Navarro, is also the president of New-Cumberland based Navarro & Wright [...]
State Representative Mike Vereb will unveil legislation to eliminated the corrupt, patronage ridden Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission at a press conference tomorrow. Capitol Ideas has some notes on the bill.
Last week, former Congressman John Peterson also called on eliminating the Turnpike Commission in an op-ed.
[...]When can we finally retire the urban legend repeated in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today? Namely this:
The debate puts the first-term senator in an uncomfortable place. His father, former Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey, challenged Roe v. Wade to the Supreme Court and was infamously denied a chance to [...]
Pennsylvania has a flat rate Personal Income Tax (PIT) of 3.07%, which is a fair and simple distribution of taxation. Yet some people are imprudently calling for a state-wide graduated income tax, similar to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In this blog series, I will highlight various reasons why one [...]
Political analyst Charlie Cook had rated Pennsylvania Leaning Democrat but changed his rating.
Polling indicates that Pat Toomey’s Reaganesque message can win if Pat Toomey can raise enough money to communicate that message to voters. The financial support from Senator Orin Hatch and from former Governor Romney [...]
Auditor General Jack Wagner, running for the Democratic nomination in the Pennsylvania Governor's race, told a Camp Hill crowd on Saturday night that he opposes President Obama’s recent decision to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Wagner is a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran [...] 
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