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Wrapped up
— The normally somnolent State Ethics Commission ordered former PA Liquor Control Board CEO Joe Conti, former PLCB Chairman P.J. Stapleton and former PLCB Marketing and Merchandising Director James H....
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The governor’s a meanie!
— Governor Tom Corbett is down in the polls and heading into the fall election with a 20-to-25-point deficit against Democratic challenger Tom Wolfe. He hasn’t been able to sign into law either of his...
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Paying the tabs
— Pennsylvania and its municipalities will get you coming and going and boozing, as well. With Scranton residents and commuters facing big tax hikes to fund union contracts and pensions, respectively,...
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Tilting at monopolies
— Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled House of Representatives has embarked on its latest effort to privatize the state’s antiquated and much-ridiculed wine and liquor monopoly. Given that the last few...
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Drunken politics
— The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board was conceived and created in the years following the end of Prohibition by Gov. Gifford Pinchot, a teetotaler, whose primary aim was to make the purchase of...
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Out both sides
— Our GOP-controlled state legislature has achieved something remarkable: It makes me feel a sense of pity for former Gov. Tom Corbett. Corbett struggled for four years to get his fellow Republicans...
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Pass no law before its time
— Reform never happens overnight. Nowhere is that truer than here in Pennsylvania, where efforts to reform and privatize the state’s Prohibition-era alcoholic beverages sales laws have proceeded at a...
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