No Legislative Breakthroughs As Pa. Lawmakers Prepare For Summer Recess
There were no breakthroughs on major issues Tuesday as Pennsylvania lawmakers get closer to their summer recess scheduled for Sunday.
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There were no breakthroughs on major issues Tuesday as Pennsylvania lawmakers get closer to their summer recess scheduled for Sunday.
"This decision was a bad day for America and for voting," says Jennifer Clarke, executive director of the Public Interest Law Center and one of the plaintiff attorneys in Pennsylvania's yearlong battle over voter ID.
It appears that the majority Republicans in the Pennsylvania are poised to gut a transportation funding bill passed by the state senate earlier this year.
The defendants in the case include the turnpike's former CEO, Joseph Brimmeier (photo), former turnpike commissioner Mitchell Rubin, and the former longtime Democratic leader of the state senate, Robert Mellow, who is currently serving time for his guilty plea in a federal corruption probe.
State House Majority Leader Mike Turzai says members of his caucus tend to prefer a less expensive transportation funding proposal put forth by Governor Corbett.
Authorities in Delaware have charged a Pa. man with traveling to meeting someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl for sex.
A North Pa. couple have been charged with keeping their 12-year-old daughter, who has cerebral palsy, in a makeshift cage and in a locked closet .
The department on Friday made public a website that compares competing plans to spend billions of dollars in new transportation money.
"If you want to do a programmatic discount, you would need programmatic revenue," says a DRPA spokesman, "and nobody has suggested where that programmatic revenue would come from."
Even though the operations of Philadelphia's Traffic Court have been taken over by Municipal Court, the Traffic Court building is remaining open for business.
If Governor Corbett is going to get the pension reform he's been seeking, it appears it will be in significantly watered-down form.
WPHT's Dom Giordano spoke with Pa. Senator Chuck McIlhinney on Wednesday as he unveiled the Senate's version of the Liquor Bill.
The Advisory Council for the Office of Aging and Adult Services held a public hearing in Norristown.
Effective immediately, Traffic Court functions are under the supervision of Philadelphia Municipal Court, though the complete transition may take weeks or months.
Governor Corbett has signed a bill that will ensure that crime victims or their representatives have a chance to appear in person before the state parole board when it is considering the release of an offender.
