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Energy: Pennsylvania's Choice, America's Model
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Energy: Pennsylvania’s Choice, America’s Model

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by on Apr 27, 2012 in Featured, The Economy
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We can’t drill our way to energy independence. Or so proclaims the president and many of his supporters. Here in Pennsylvania, the proclamation rings hollow; we are in the midst of a historic natural gas boom. Pennsylvania has an abundant supply of natural gas locked up in the geology of the Marcellus Shale, thousands of feet below two-thirds […]

Budget Tightening in Pennsylvania—and Around the Nation
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Budget Tightening in Pennsylvania—and Around the Nation

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by on Mar 14, 2011 in The Economy
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Pennsylvania’s new governor, Tom Corbett, has submitted his first annual budget to the state legislature. It includes proposals for spending cuts and no new taxes. In some ways, the budget is a model of what must be done nationwide. Gov. Corbett also claims that it cuts spending, but that depends on how the numbers are […]