Pennsylvania has a workforce problem - a growing skills gap that is making it difficult for employers to find qualified job candidates to fill open positions. We're fighting to close this gap by working with businesses, educators, students and their families to help build the skilled workforce of tomorrow.
Government should operate within its means: evaluating the effectiveness of current programs; weeding out waste, fraud and abuse in spending; and investing wisely in worthy state-run programs that directly benefit taxpayers.
Our natural gas industry holds the promise of economic growth and job creation. Additional taxes hinder this opportunity and drive companies to states with friendlier tax climates that share our resources. We're fighting against proposed new taxes on the industry that would pay for more state spending.
Pennsylvania's two public pension systems received a wake-up call on Dec. 20, delivered by a review commission in a 400-page report.
A ShopRite store in West Philadelphia will close in March, its owner announced Wednesday, placing blame on Philadelphia's tax on soda and other sweetened beverages for a 23 percent loss in sales that has made the store unprofitable.
In recent years, anti-energy groups have rallied around a singular theme: "Keep it in the Ground."
You don't have to be a business owner to know that living in a 'judicial hellhole' doesn’t sound business friendly.
Lawmakers are expressing concerns following a new House committee report detailing how Russians attempted to use social media platforms to manipulate U.S. energy markets.
We begin 2018 with a national feeling of optimism as the economy is looking up.
The shale gas boom in Pennsylvania and other Appalachian states has been the chief driver of growth in U.S. natural gas production since 2012, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Monday.
The potential for a tax on Marcellus shale natural gas production gained new life Wednesday, as a bill emerged from a state House committee and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf urged leaders of the Republican-controlled chamber to speed it to a floor vote.
One of the key differences in the ongoing budget impasse between the Gov. Tom Wolf and the General Assembly is the issue of education funding.
Gov. Tom Wolf's $1 billion gas severance tax for education is the greatest illusion ever created in Harrisburg.
As most Pennsylvanians know, we are producing more natural gas than all but one other state, thanks to the prolific supplies of gas in the Marcellus and other formations.
There are no natural gas well pads in Lancaster County, but Pennsylvania's emerging natural gas industry has had a profound and positive impact on our community.