After much speculation, Gov. Tom Wolf unveiled his plans this week for a severance tax on natural gas drilling.Wolf鈥檚 proposal calls for a 5 percent tax on the value of natural gas at the wellhead, plus 4.7 cents per thousand cubic feet of volume pulled out of the ground to hedge against ...
<em>Joe Wilson is CEO of Infinity Resource Group, Inc., a professional mineral rights consulting firm in Parkersburg, W.Va., and a Registered Landman. David Pearl is managing director of a CNG patent holding company and president of a CNG fuel island development company. Your ...
There is an old adage that a new broom sweeps clean, and that鈥檚 certainly been the case with Gov. Tom Wolf who has hit the ground running since taking office a little more than two weeks ago.Wolf said he鈥檚 not taking the governor鈥檚 salary, which at $187,256 is the highest in the nation ...
I would not insult you, dear reader, by saying something as pedantic as simplistic as 鈥渏unk food is bad for you: don't eat it.鈥� Neither am I naive enough to expect anyone, including yours truly, to follow through on such an unrealistic directive. Rather, we shall explore the realistic ...
I recently came across one of those scrolling news flash items on Facebook regarding 鈥渘egative calorie foods.鈥� I鈥檒l bet you just did what I did: Double-take, and a big 鈥淗uh?鈥� Of course, like many topics in the world of preventive health and nutrition, there is some disagreement. So ...
To the absolute surprise of no one paying close attention to the funding of Pennsylvania鈥檚 public schools, a recent study by the Associated Press showed that the gap between what wealthy districts and poor districts spend to educate their children has widened dramatically in the four years ...
