Gov. Tom Wolf is a man of surprises, certainly a type of Democrat to which the Commonwealth has not been accustomed.He has proposed for starters, the far-fetched and seemingly impossible: halving the corporate income tax rate and eliminating the onerous capital stock franchise tax, initiatives ...
Longtime Pennsylvania good government activist Gene Stilp is a man after my own heart.To learn that he is retiring as a crusader for a noble cause is good news for those elected officials who are prone to chicanery, bad news for those like me, who believe that government should truly be of, by, ...
As expected, Gov, Tom Wolf has proposed a Marcellus Shale extraction tax which would bring Pennsylvania in line with other states that host drilling. He did so knowing that there is only modest support for it within the Republican ranks of the General Assembly and that a key opponent of such ...
When a bipartisan agreement to fund most federal government operations for the remainder of the fiscal year was reached only at the eleventh hour last year, the seeds were sown for trouble to be on the immediate horizon through the Republicans鈥� refusal to fund the Department of Homeland ...
I did not vote for Tom Wolf, but I am very pleased with his actions as governor to this point. He has made it clear that he is a new type of Democrat, distinguishing himself from the state's former leader Ed Rendell in critical ways.Mr. Wolf quickly got out front on the critical issue of ethics ...
I was appalled, but not surprised to learn Graham Spanier, the criminally-charged former Penn State University President and multi-million-dollar recipient of compensation and benefits, continues to collect a paycheck from the institution, and that the amount of his continued enrichment is ...