On Wednesday, Gov. Tom Wolf proposed raising Pennsylvania's minimum wage to $12 per hour, with plans to increase it by 50 cents annually until it reaches $15 per hour by 2025. Read more
Gov. Tom Wolf is asking the Republican-controlled state House and Senate to sign on to a sweeping new infrastructure plan. Read more
Governor Tom Wolf has pushed to increase Pennsylvania's minimum wage every year since he took office in 2015. Read more
Infrastructure is the framework upon which our lives are built. Read more
A state agency projects that natural gas impact fee collections for 2018 will exceed those from 2017 by $37.4 million. Read more
Pennsylvania's impact fee on shale gas wells is expected to raise a record $247 million this year, driven in part by the anticipated receipt of millions of dollars in past fees that the state plans to collect after winning a state Supreme Court case last month. Read more
Impact fees on unconventional natural gas operations in Pennsylvania hit a single-year high in 2018, according to the state's Independent Fiscal Office. Read more
The fee Pennsylvania collects from natural gas drillers is expected to reach a record $247 million this year, according to figures released Thursday by the state's Independent Fiscal Office. Read more
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 80 million hourly paid workers in the United States. Only 221,000 hourly paid workers age 25 or over earn the federal minimum wage. Read more
When Heidi Mann and her husband Karam took a leap of faith 15 years ago and purchased a Subway franchise in Seattle, they had no idea that one day their dreams could be shattered by the city's required increases in the minimum wage. Read more
Pipelines are safer than tank cars as long as they are built the right way. Read more
The continued push for a natural gas severance tax and safeguards against opioid addiction may well be taken up in the state Legislature this year. Read more
Pennsylvania's two public pension systems received a wake-up call on Dec. 20, delivered by a review commission in a 400-page report. Read more
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. Read more
In recent years, anti-energy groups have rallied around a singular theme: "Keep it in the Ground." Read more
You don't have to be a business owner to know that living in a 'judicial hellhole' doesn’t sound business friendly. Read more
Now that the Amazon show is over, let's take full advantage of our world-class energy reserves Read more
Where are the workers? Read more
There's really no way to sugarcoat it. Read more
It should come as no surprise, that our state has abundant energy resources. Read more