It’s budget season in Pennsylvania, which means that politicians are grasping at any loose straws they can find to painlessly […]
Sen. Jarrett Coleman: From flight logs to being watchdogs — what I learned from the Senate budget hearings
Six billion dollars: that is the difference between revenue projections and Governor Shapiro’s latest budget proposal. He’s proposing that we […]
Andy Bloom: Ghosts of government cuts past
Everyone liked reinventing government when Bill Clinton was doing it.
By Andy Bloom
Richard Koenig: Mary Gay Scanlon flails against the Musk bogeyman
From time to time, I get missives from the office of Mary Gay Scanlon, a Democrat who represents me (in […]
Guy Ciarrocchi: Yes, America, there is a swamp
There is waste. There is fraud. There is abuse. And there is money — our tax dollars — spent on […]
Rep. Seth Grove: Government waste is no accident
Government efficiency, across all levels, is more than a slogan to me. Being responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars is one […]
Delco’s legal spending spree: Outside attorney spending now eight times higher than prior administration
A firm where one county councilor used to work now makes more in a year from Delco than the county spent on all other outside legal work in 2019, the last year Republicans were in power.
By Todd Shepherd
Albert Eisenberg: BOMBSHELL — Corona cashout for city workers as regular Philadelphians flail
As regular Philadelphians face down the impossible decisions that come with a societal freefall, why are some city employees getting paid time-and-a-half to work from home — on the taxpayer’s dime?