In 2006, the hard shell of Pennsylvania politics cracked.

What caused it to crack was public indignation over the substance and method of the infamous pay raise.

The result was a change in the power structure in Harrisburg, a change that is still in progress.
 
Reform, uppermost on the mind of the electorate, has now become foremost on the agenda of the legislature. Promises of openness and ethics reform prevail. It remains to be seen what form reform takes and how open openness will be.
 
But it’s a start.

Harrisburg is in dire need of reform, not only in how government acts (ethics and openness), but also in what it does (spending, regulation, legislation). The purpose of this website is to create a community for change in PA politics, and to cause that change.

Politics has always been about the cultivation and use of power. But power corrupts. In Pennsylvania the cultivation and maintenance of power has become an end in itself.

As a result Pennsylvania is suffering. By almost any standard Pennsylvania is not the state it was a half century ago. It is, relative to the rest of the country, older, poorer, less influential and less dynamic.

And the response from Harrisburg has been political, not governmental. Raise taxes, increase spending, fund a new program.

But this approach is folly

The business of governing a state, a nation, a corporation, a foundation, an army or any organization has been radically altered by the information revolution. Almost everywhere change is being met head-on, but not in Harrisburg.

Immersed in the game of maintaining its own power, our political establishment is focused on itself … as the world passes Pennsylvania by.

Do you want to get PA back in the game of life? Do you want to help it grow into a dynamic state that is well led, responsibly governed and fully engaged in the 21st Century?
 
We do too.

So, please, join us.