by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Americans despise taxes. After all, one of the key issues that paved the way for the American Revolution was the unfair taxation that King George III levied against the Colonies. Now some in the US Senate want to say yes to an international tax. It would be the...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Charles Bier, senior conservation scientist for the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, walked properties Tuesday that the conservancy recently added to public lands in Erie County. The Pittsburgh-based conservancy has bought more than 600 acres of local stream banks...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The General Services Administration should focus on structural changes to its Public Buildings Service, a group of senators from both parties said in a May 21 letter to GSA’s acting administrator Dan Tangherlini. Senators Tom Carper, D-Del., Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Tom...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) isn’t convinced the Interior Department’s inspector general has been playing it straight with his panel. Mary Kendall, the department’s internal watchdog, says she most certainly has. Hastings...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The lobbying group for automobile dealerships is contesting a claim by a consumer group that higher fuel standards for cars will lead to happy drivers. Instead, the McLean, Va.-based National Automobile Dealers Association said Wednesday the Obama...