In short, CRIZ steals from future generations to enrich special interests today. What was Lancaster State Senator Lloyd Smucker thinking about when he introduced this program?

Disney has raised the gate price for the Magic Kingdom 41 times since, nearly doubling it over the past decade. This year, a ticket inside the “most magical place on Earth” rocketed past $100 for the first time in history…

Unfortunately, both Gov. Wolf’s and the Republicans’ plans are long on complicated tax language and arcane formulas that only a wonk could love, and short on answers to everyday questions homeowners and taxpayers are sure to ask.

On Thursday, the administration backtracked from a letter the Department of Labor and Industry sent to about two dozen state-funded agencies that help disabled individuals. The letter, which the administration called an unauthorized “mistake” and Rep. Mauree Gingrich, R-Lebanon, called “fear-mongering,” warned the agencies they would lose money if a budget is not approved by July 1, according to Capitolwire, an online news service.

There is a vaguely Newtonian truth of criminal justice: A body incarcerated tends to stay incarcerated. A body at liberty tends to stay at liberty Much like a phase change in physics, sending someone to jail takes a great deal of effort, and getting him or her out of jail does as well. Thus the incentives to plead guilty when one is at liberty are a fraction of what they are when one is incarcerated…

After decades of inactivity on marijuana reform, the Senate has moved at lightning pace this year. In another vote today, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an amendment from Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) to protect state industrial hemp laws from DOJ interference. And less than a month ago, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed the bipartisan Daines-Merkley amendment allowing Veterans Administration (VA) doctors to recommend medical marijuana to their patients in states where medical marijuana is legal.

hope a state law can be passed to limit the max hospitals in PA can charge over the Medicare allowance.

Racial exclusion at private pools—bolstered by residential segregation—continued through the 1960s until it was broken by court order in 1973. But this was only a small deterrent to Americans who didn’t want to swim with blacks.

.The researchers said other consumers who could face those high charges are patients whose hospitals are not in their insurance company’s preferred network of providers, patients using workers’ compensation and those covered by automobile insurance policies.

“[ David Wildstein, a former Port Authority official]’s statement, in a civil case separate from the federal prosecution in the bridge case, …portrays the governor, a former United States attorney, casually revealing information about a grand jury proceeding he had overseen, which violates federal law.”

The real answer is who knows? Ten states and the District of Columbia have laws that require regular evaluation of tax incentives and economic development grants. Pennsylvania is not one of them.

Consider a $10,000 investment in the S.&P. 500 index. Using the Dalbar rates, my calculations show that with dividends, that $10,000 would grow to $65,464 over 20 years, compared with only $27,510 over the same period for the return of the average stock mutual fund investors…