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The Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization that stresses that government in Pennsylvania - and government leaders in the Commonwealth - should focus on accountability, efficiency, and responsibility in providing government services and in public service. The Center places special emphasis on free market principles, the role of servanthood, and the responsibilities of citizenship that form the foundation of our political structure.

Recent Additions to our Policy Papers

Hospital Report Update 2017

By David A. Atkinson on

Taking The Temperature Of Pennsylvania’s Hospitals & Healthsystems: Positive – Encouraging If Uneven Growth, And Negative – Troubling State Policy Trends Hospital Report Update 2017

Pennsylvania Should Hit the Brakes as the Supreme Court Stays EPA’s Clean Power Plan

By John Pippy, Pennsylvania Coal Alliance on

On February 9, in an unprecedented and historic move, the Supreme Court of the United States stayed the keystone to President Obama’s climate legacy, the Clean Power Plan. The stay on the Clean Power Plan is in effect until legal challenges have been determined and halts the timeline on state plan submissions. Oral arguments before […]

COLWYN, PENNSYLVANIA: THE TOWN THAT CAN’T SEEM TO GOVERN ITSELF

By Daniel C. Vock on

Not many people have heard of Colwyn, Pa. It’s a tiny Philadelphia suburb of about 2,500 people that covers just 0.3 square miles. But this spring, it gained notoriety when it was declared “financially distressed” by the state. Local Philadelphia stations had already been airing chaotic council meetings, complete with screaming matches, swearing, and even […]

Going the Distance for Business Competitiveness

By David N. Taylor on

Rosie Ruiz won the Boston Marathon in 1980, shattering the fastest female time record and had hardly broken a sweat when she crossed the finish line. Ms. Ruiz was stripped of her title just eight days later when officials discovered she rode the subway to the finish line. Similarly, in the grueling marathon that has […]