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Pennsylvania Could Make $1.6 Billion Off LCB Sale

Pennsylvania’s state-controlled Liquor Control Board has been a political issue for a great deal of time, with little progress—if any—made on altering the status quo. […]

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Feather Houstoun Nominated to School Reform Commission

Yesterday Denise McGregor Armbrister resigned from the SRC because she felt that having her replacement step in three months early would help bring some solidarity […]

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School Choice Can Save Pennsylvania’s Education System

As we all know, weather forecasters are wrong much of the time. But you can’t hold them responsible for that wholly unpredictable icy blast felt […]

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10 Youths Found in Connection With “Dungeon” Case

10 Youths Found in Connection with Philly “Dungeon” Case. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey spoke about the case last evening and indicated that six children and […]

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Three Charged for Keeping Mentally Challenged Adults Captive

Three Charged In Captivity Case. Philadelphia Police have charged three individuals for allegedly keeping four mentally challenged adults chained up in a basement while stealing […]

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Governor Corbett Wants School Vouchers

Earlier today Governor Corbett unveiled his education reform plan—a plan that calls for vouchers for students in failing schools and higher tax credits for businesses […]

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PA Republicans Want to Close Philadelphia Library for the Blind

It is a plan so dastardly, so despicable, that state and local officials don’t want you to know about it. Pennsylvania has a plan in […]

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Pennsylvania: For Sale to the Highest Bidder?

Last Thursday Governor Tom Corbett named two dozen members to his Advisory Council on Privatization and Innovation—referred to less officially as his “Privatization Panel”—which is […]

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Wendell Pritchett Named Interim SRC Chair

Wendell Pritchett—the former Rutgers-Camden Chancellor who was named to the SRC with the first of Mayor Nutter’s two allotted appointments this fall—has been declared as […]

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Harrisburg Republicans Want to Rig PA’s Presidential Vote

After his victory in 1980, Ronald Reagan chose the best, the brightest—and make no mistake—the most politically powerful to fill his cabinet. In an acknowledgement […]

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Corbett Marcellus-Shale Plan Leaves Fees Up to Counties

Governor Tom Corbett has announced that his plan for the controversial use of the Marcellus-Shale for natural gas drilling will include a provision that allows […]

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Can Mayor Nutter and Governor Corbett Team Up to Save Philly Schools?

The only strange thing about Monday’s massacre of the School Reform Commission is that it took this long to happen. Any board that extends the […]

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Battle Over the Booze: Will Corbett Take On the Unions?

The arguments for selling the state liquor system far outweigh the reasons to maintain the status quo. The public favors privatization. The political support is […]

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Gov. Onorato—Er, Corbett—Gives Unions A Sweetheart Deal

In case you have been living under a rock, here’s a newsflash: We are experiencing one of the most severe recessions in our history, and […]

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It’s Time to Grade Tom Corbett

Who can forget the classic scene in Animal House when the boys from Delta fraternity were summoned by Dean Wormer? As he looked over their […]