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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.

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Merit Selection Of Judges: A Better Method For Attaining Quality Courts

By David A. Atkinson on

In the Winter Olympics, champions in a variety of sports are determined by how swiftly they race downhill.  Individual performances are amazingly fast, and the difference in winning can be a fraction of a second. In the competition to achieve victory on state government reform, the course runs in the opposite direction – steeply uphill.  […]

Biennial Budgeting Is Bipartisan Solution To Annual Impasses

By Lt. Governor Mike Stack and State Senator Ryan Aument on

May 23, 2016 – By Lt. Governor Mike Stack and State Senator Ryan Aument Biennial budgeting is bipartisan solution to annual impasses To the frustration of many Pennsylvanians, the 2015-16 state budget took almost nine months to complete. While this was the longest budget impasse in our commonwealth’s history, it certainly was not the first […]

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 […]