In his first budget address the newly inaugurated Governor carried through with his promise to go for a severance tax on Marcellus Shale gas production.
Pennsylvania’s overall union membership as a percentage of employment held steady at 12.7 percent in 2014, unchanged from 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor
While stumping for the governorship, the current Governor made a Marcellus Shale severance tax a key campaign promise. And true to his promise, now that
The non-stop complaints about inequitable education funding in Pennsylvania have become tiresome. And the constant demands for ever more spending with no evidence that more
In early January, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported the final tally of gross revenue from slot machine gaming for 2014 at $2.319 billion. This
When the transportation bill, Act 89 of 2013, was signed by the Governor it ushered in a series of increases to wholesale gasoline and diesel
In February 2012 the Pennsylvania Legislature enacted Act 13 which established an impact fee on companies drilling for natural gas using the hydraulic fracture treatment,
Recently the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research released its annual Spring Keystone Business Climate Survey. Over 360 business executives from all corners of the
There is a large component unit of Pennsylvania’s government that seekers of public funding know about all too well but which the public and taxpayers
Has luck run out for Pennsylvania’s casinos? In 2013, annual gross terminal revenue (the casino share of slots play) from the state’s twelve casinos was
