Tag: Pennsylvania

Free Markets, Cheaper Booze

Pennsylvania union fighting efforts to remove control of alcohol sales from the state

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Gov. Tom Corbett / AP

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) is looking to break up the state’s Prohibition-era monopoly of state liquor sales in the face of mounting union opposition.

It Gets Better

Philadelphia-area businesses fight union bullies

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Labor Rally in Philadelphia / AP

Several Philadelphia labor groups allegedly used feces, urine, spit, and fire to persuade businesses to hire union labor and area businesses are fighting back.

The Keystone to Bringing Jobs
Back to PA

Right-to-work legislation introduced in Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania Capitol / AP

Six GOP lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a proposal to make the “Keystone State” the nation’s 25th right-to-work state.

Unions in Decline

Union membership rolls plummet as right-to-work laws spread

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AP

Union members represented 11.3 percent of the American workforce in 2012, a drop from 2011’s 11.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Yoko Sets Her Sights on Breaking Up Fracking

Full-page ad asks Cuomo to ‘imagine there’s no fracking’

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Fracking in Pennsylvania / AP

Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon took out a full-page ad in the New York Times Monday to protest natural gas fracking in New York state.

Casey at Bat for Philly Housing Authority

Millions in stimulus spending went to ‘shoddy and unsafe’ low-income housing, auditors found

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Sen. Bob Casey / AP

Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.) was instrumental in securing millions of dollars in stimulus funds for the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA)—money that federal auditors later found was used for shoddy and unsafe work at low-income housing units.

Mining For Votes

Republican challenger Tom Smith slaps Democratic incumbent Bob Casey over coal plant closure

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Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. / AP

Regulations on the coal industry are driving massive layoffs and the shuttering of coal plants in Pennsylvania, injecting environmental issues into that state’s hotly contested Senate race between incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. and Republican challenger and coal mining executive Tom Smith.