Philadelphia has elected its first City Council member from the Working Families Party, a movement dedicated to ending poverty and inequality, making housing affordable and overcoming climate change. Unfortunately, their plans will not only fail to solve Philadelphia’s problems, they will also cause complicated new ones.
By Logan Chipkin
Terry Tracy: For suburban GOP, it’s time to get back to work
Republicans must rethink their suburban strategy and get back to basics while coming to terms with fundamental changes to social reality in the suburbs.
By Terry Tracy
Andrew J. Bove: THIS is what Americans find so troubling about Washington insiders
Columnist David Brooks rejects the caricature of federal workers as corrupt, overpaid, incompetent swamp creatures. But that’s not the core issue.
By Andrew J. Bove
Rooney and Novak: 2019’s municipal elections in the rear-view mirror
Last week’s historic wins predict little about next year. Broad and Liberty political analysts Alan Novak and T.J. Rooney say the 2020 cycle will write its own story.
By T.J. Rooney and Alan Novak
Athan Koutsiouroumbas: The apocalypse came to suburban Philly Republicans. Now what?
The president is a factor, but so are national and local trends. For the GOP, that means rethinking some strategies and getting back to basics.
By Athan Koutsiouroumbas
Rooney and Novak: Expect pipelines, opioid crisis and open space – not party – to decide local elections in Pa.
As the state enters the final stretch of the 2019 municipal campaigns, Broad and Liberty political analysts Alan Novak and T.J. Rooney discuss local races and the issues that will drive Southeastern Pennsylvania’s voter turnout.
By Alan Novak and T.J. Rooney
Dean Reuter: All forms of socialism discard the most prosperous form of government in history
For all the contentiousness and disagreement within America, we have much more in common with one another than not. And we should recognize that the institutions of our government are working.
By Dean Reuter
Bob Martin: Not for Trump, but not for far left Democrats either
Many can unite in denunciations of the President’s behavior. But extreme progressive ideology is also troubling.
By Bob Martin
State Rep. Frank Ryan: Pa. must eliminate property taxes – and here’s how to do it
Frustrated by your tax bills? Pennsylvania HB 13 would eliminate school property taxes and provide alternate revenue sources to spread the burden of school funding equitably.
By Frank Ryan
Rooney and Novak: Campaign 2019, this fall’s elections set the stage for 2020
Broad + Liberty asked political analysts T.J. Rooney and Alan Novak to discuss Pennsylvania’s current political landscape and explore what the 2019 election means for 2020.
By Alan Novak and T.J. Rooney