Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Union contracts projected to cost taxpayers $3.2 billion According to a preliminary analysis released yesterday by the state’s Independent Fiscal Office (IFO), union contracts negotiated behind closed doors with…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Incomplete state budget 'already in the red' Well here’s some fun news to start your Monday (or not). The recently passed state budget—which is still awaiting the passage of…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Budget disagreements linger The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gives a state budget update, given the chunk of spending that can’t be implemented because code bills have not yet been passed. A…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! WSJ: 'Shapiro's union payback' The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes that AFSCME got a “tidy return” on their “$1.26 million investment in Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 2022 campaign.” This refers…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Taxpayer cost still TBD as union ratifies new state contract AFSCME Council 13, which represents about 27,000 (or nearly half of) state employees under Gov. Shapiro’s jurisdiction, has ratified…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Pa. pols line up behind presidential candidates The Erie Times-News gives a rundown of whom Pa. politicians are endorsing in the 2024 presidential race. Not surprisingly, multiple Democrats—including Gov.…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! WSJ: 'Calling Josh Shapiro's voucher bluff' The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board calls on Pa. Senate Republicans to use the yet-to-be-approved code bills to keep the school choice pressure…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Shapiro vetoes school choice program, signs budget Yesterday, the state Senate sent Gov. Shapiro the budget passed by both the House and Senate. Shapiro signed the bill, but followed…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Pa. Senate to send budget to Shapiro today The Pa. Senate is expected to convene today to send the budget—which passed both the House and Senate—to Gov. Shapiro. Shapiro…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Philly labor leader and Dem state rep. back school choice Last week I shared the op-ed by Philadelphia Building & Construction Trades Council head Ryan Boyer, in which he…