Pa. Republicans May Give Corbett Little of What He Wants For Transportation Funding
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.
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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.
Back in the 1980s word got out that the city-owned PGW was giving break to prominent officials.
Cory Booker had just 53 days to convince New Jersey Democrats to nominate him to be the state's next U.S. Senator, but the Newark mayor spent Friday afternoon speaking to hundreds boys not yet old enough to vote.
After months of debate, Council president Darrell Clarke says he's proud of the final version of the Actual Value Initiative that Council has approved.
Some five dozen Democratic party officials are working hard to get Cory Booker elected to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the late Frank Lautenberg.
Days after the City Controller's audit on the spike in the number of provisional ballots cast at Philadelphia polls in the 2012 election, a fact-finding team appointed by Mayor Nutter has released its own version of what went wrong.
Effective immediately, Traffic Court functions are under the supervision of Philadelphia Municipal Court, though the complete transition may take weeks or months.
With less than two weeks before the legislature's scheduled summer recess, Republican leaders in the GOP-controlled state Senate have taken the wraps off their proposal to reform liquor sales in Pennsylvania.
"We have done our part, exceeding the request," Council president Darrell Clarke said Tuesday in City Council chambers, "and we will conclude our budget process this Thursday."
Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett has signed a bill that will prohibit coverage of most abortions by insurance policies to be offered through a federally run insurance "exchange" being set up as part of the new federal health care law.
Pennsylvania's voter ID law will be argued in Commonwealth Court next month but, according to ACLU attorney Vic Walczak, who represents the plaintiffs challenging the law, the issues are completely different.
She was a high school student back in the '50's who brought a Quran to school, to read during public recitation of the Lord's Prayer and Bible verses, then the law in Pennsylvania.
The big issue is education funding, or lack thereof.
It was a close vote this past week as Philadelphia City Council decided to revise the city's controversial 10-year tax abatement on new construction.
It may be going too far to say Gov. Tom Corbett's political future rests on what happens in Harrisburg over the next two weeks, but there's no disputing he has a lot at stake.
