Last Chance to Learn About Judges

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 2, 2007

Here are surveys/info about the judges up for election and retention: Democracy Rising Judicial SurveyPennsylvania Family Institute Voters’ Guide PA League of Women’s Voters Voters’…

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Poll on Judicial Retention – My Take

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 19, 2007

Triad Strategies and Susquehanna Polling released a very intersting poll on voter attitudes toward the November retention elections. Unfortunately, their analysis is all wrong. They found 63% of voters…

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Sweep The Judges?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 12, 2007

The Bulletin offers an insightful discussion of the PA Clean Sweep’s push for rejecting all judges up for retention. While we don’t offer advice on how to vote,…

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Free Markets vs. Socialized Medicine

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 17, 2007

John Goodman on Hillary Clinton’s new health care propsal, along with comments on John Stossel’s latest special on health care, which aired on Friday. Also check out…

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Who are the judges?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 11, 2007

A Reposting – for those of you who are neither lawyers or criminals and are looking for more info about the judicial candidates, here are various surveys/voter guides. Democracy…

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English offers new remedy to tolling of I-80

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 11, 2007

Congressman Phil English is proposing to ban tolls on all existing federal freeways, similar to a proposal introduced by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. We don’t think that is…

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Another distortion of charter schools’ “Cost”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 9, 2007

Jim McCaffrey’s article in the Evening Bulletin continues the assault that charter schools “cost too much”. Yet this is a distortion of the truth. School districts continue to complain…

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Cyber schools and public schools

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 25, 2007

A version of our commentary on public cyber schools ran in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer. On the same theme is a letter to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review on an…

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Toll plan hits bump in the road

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 25, 2007

More on the US House’s action to stop tolling of I-80 from the Patriot News. The federal law would mean that federal funds currently going to the state for…

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