News Release: June 27, 2018—Today’s historic Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME, upholding Mark Janus’ right to choose whether to fund a government union, is a major win for worker freedom—and a major loss for Gov. Tom Wolf and his…
By Matthew J. Brouillette. Editorial Note: This piece was originally published in the Somerset Daily American on June 6, 2018. Since then, the Legislature did not embrace Wolf's severance tax proposal and passed a budget with no tax increases. Who…
Gov. Tom Wolf claims to fight for ethical reforms in campaign finance and to battle the opioid crisis in Pennsylvania. But public filings reveal he has accepted $1,100,000 in campaign contributions from a political action committee with deep ties to…
By Chris Comisac, Bureau Chief, Capitolwire. Note: This article first appeared at Capitolwire on 3/26/18 and is reprinted with permission. Apparently democracy is under attack in Pennsylvania, with figurative warning shots having been fired over the bow of a so-called…
By Matthew J. Brouillette. Pennsylvania journalists are no strangers to exposing political corruption. That’s why the recent lack of journalistic outrage over the longstanding systematic abuse of public resources for political gain is mystifying to say the least.
By Matthew J. Brouillette. For nearly three months, state lawmakers have been scrambling to pay for the budget they passed in June. And Gov. Wolf, who allowed this unbalanced budget to become law, has done little more than insist that…
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and the general assembly have been sued over the state's unbalanced budget. "When lawmakers become lawbreakers, the integrity and functionality of important governmental institutions are under attack."
The only thing that's strange about activist Matt Brouillette's legal fight to get the state to live within its fiscal means is that it didn't happen sooner.