General Assembly Fails to enact Redistricting Reform

The deadline for a Redistricting Amendment has passed!
Pennsylvania’s system of re-districting (if you want to call it that) is defined in the Commonwealth’s Constitution in Article II, Section 17. Amending it, requires the General Assembly to pass proposed amendments in two consecutive legislative sessions before they can be put on the ballot for the [...]

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Stop Chester Soccer Stadium Corporate Welfare

“Free Bread and Circuses” destroyed Rome.  Free  Cheese-steaks  and Soccer Stadiums could destroy Pennsylvania.
Soccer Stadiums Plans: No Goal
Benjamin B. Ober Commonwealth Foundation
06.26.08
Recently, Governor Rendell and Republican state lawmakers stood side-by-side to announce a multi-million dollar taxpayer grant to build a soccer stadium in Chester, under the guise [...]

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I Support the Taxpayer Protection Act

NEWS RELEASE from the Commonwealth Foundation
06.20.08
Pennsylvania Senate Proposes Spending Diet Low-growth budget is a step in the right direction, but will House and Governor agree?
HARRISBURG, PA The Pennsylvania Senate recently passed a state spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year authorizing $27.9 billion in General Fund expenditures. This represents an increase of 2.86% ($775 [...]

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Pennsylvania’s ACRE law and the Gypsy Moth.

The gypsy moth was introduced into the United States in 1868 by a scientist, living in New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the specific purpose of mating the species of caterpillars with naturally occurring silk spinning caterpillars. The native silk spinning caterpillars were susceptible to disease, and poor silk producers. So roughly two dozen gypsy moths were [...]

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Excluding third-party Candidates on the taxpayer’s dime.

In the campaign’s lawsuit concerning ballot access, it was pointed out that both Ralph Nader and Carl Romanelli alleged that state employees working to invalidate their signatures received bonuses from their caucuses for doing so. The lawsuit appears below in its entirety.
Now an article appearing in today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette corroborates such claims [...]

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Should Pennsylvania get rid of the Turnpike Commission?

Whenever you hear of a government entity being privatized, don’t you immediately ask yourself, why couldn’t government make the same money for the taxpayer, as the private firm will ? After all, they will have to lease the capital asset, as well as pay a dividend to their investors. Could it be that the [...]

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Candidate files Ballot Access lawsuit

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

DENNIS BAYLOR,
Plaintiff,
v. Civil Action No: CV – 08 -1060
PEDRO A. CORTES, in his official
capacity as Secretary of State for the
State of Pennsylvania; and HARRY A.
VANSICKLE, in his official [...]

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