What happens when judges who are supposed to be fair and impartial instead consistently issue rulings that align with the special interests that elected them? Commonwealth Partners President and CEO Matt Brouillette recently authored an op-ed looking at partisan rulings…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Wolf does about-face on voter ID Yes, you read that headline correctly. After months of adamantly opposing enhanced voter ID requirements, decrying them as "voter suppression" and "discriminatory," and…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Wolf admin: ID requirement fine for unemployment, anti-democratic for voting Here's your morning dose of illogic. Gov. Wolf's Department of Labor has introduced new anti-fraud measures to protect our…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! No-bid contract requests topped $340 million in 2020 By now we're familiar with the multi-million-dollar no-bid contract awarded to Insight Global, the contact tracing vendor that leaked the private…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Wolf admin kept info secret for years, but denies cover-up of L&I bungle The Wolf administration has denied it covered-up a Labor & Industry error that overcharged thousands of…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Commission to propose host of new fees, taxes to replace gas tax Gov. Wolf 's Transportation Revenue Options Commission, charged with coming up with alternatives to the gas tax,…
Senator Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York County) joins Commonwealth Partners President and CEO Matt Brouillette to talk about the recently enacted state budget and the state's chronic overspending problem.
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Human error, lack of oversight to blame for L&I error According to a Wolf administration investigation completed in 2017, human error and a lack of oversight were to blame…
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Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Dep't of Labor overcharged unemployed Pennsylvanians for years Well, this is a fine mess. For a decade beginning in 2006, the PA Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) overcharged…