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Cold shoulder

After much speculation, Gov. Tom Wolf unveiled his plans this week for a severance tax on natural gas drilling.WolfĢƵ proposal calls for a 5 percent tax on the value of natural gas at the wellhead, plus 4.7 cents per thousand cubic feet of volume pulled out of the ground to hedge against ...

Preparing the future for natural gas: Full speed ahead

<em>Joe Wilson is CEO of Infinity Resource Group, Inc., a professional mineral rights consulting firm in Parkersburg, W.Va., and a Registered Landman. David Pearl is managing director of a CNG patent holding company and president of a CNG fuel island development company. Your ...

Fast start

There is an old adage that a new broom sweeps clean, and thatĢƵ certainly been the case with Gov. Tom Wolf who has hit the ground running since taking office a little more than two weeks ago.Wolf said heĢƵ not taking the governorĢƵ salary, which at $187,256 is the highest in the nation ...

Upgrade your ‘junk food’

I would not insult you, dear reader, by saying something as pedantic as simplistic as “junk food is bad for you: don't eat it.” Neither am I naive enough to expect anyone, including yours truly, to follow through on such an unrealistic directive. Rather, we shall explore the realistic ...

Food’s biggest losers

I recently came across one of those scrolling news flash items on Facebook regarding “negative calorie foods.” I’ll bet you just did what I did: Double-take, and a big “Huh?” Of course, like many topics in the world of preventive health and nutrition, there is some disagreement. So ...

Big gap

To the absolute surprise of no one paying close attention to the funding of PennsylvaniaĢƵ public schools, a recent study by the Associated Press showed that the gap between what wealthy districts and poor districts spend to educate their children has widened dramatically in the four years ...