We are a nation that is roughly $34.5 trillion dollars in debt, a number that would be comical if it weren’t so very real. Unfortunately,...
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Wake up - wise up!
Mr. Wake Up-Wise Up is my most avid reader. I can’t connect twosentences without a letter from him. He’s been doing it...
Read MorePennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker.
It is going to take some time to get used to using that title without the name of Tom Ridge...
Read MoreThe Tears of September
(Friday September 14, 2001) The smoke has yet to clear from the massacres in New York and Washington DC, workers...
Read MoreThe lady better have big feet
I remember the first time Dick Tilghman showed up on my doorstep. Twenty-five years ago I was barely old enough to...
Read MoreLincoln Institute releases results of PA Boroughs survey
Pennsylvania’s Boroughs: Aging Infrastructure and Low Commercial Tax Base Dominant Problems in the State’s Small towns Trend Toward local Tax...
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Africa’s Ivory Coast is far from being the sweetest place on earth. Historically the first American slaves were Ivorians sold by...
Read MoreThe first guy on my block
My office is next to the Valley Forge Convention Center. You never know what you’re going to see there. Most days it’s...
Read MoreThe battle for Valley Forge
In the darkest hour of America’s earliest history, November 1777, General George Washington and his staff surveyed some hills around...
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The Lincoln Institute’s columnists provide insightful commentary on a wide range of national and state level topics that go beyond talking points to focus on holding government accountable while fostering those policies that create a climate where businesses can grow and expand thus creating good family sustaining jobs for all Americans.