Nutter Blasts Pa. Lawmakers For Roadblocking City Gun Control Efforts
Mayor Nutter says proposed legislation, which would require local governments to pay plaintiffs who win gun law lawsuits, could bankrupt cities.
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Mayor Nutter says proposed legislation, which would require local governments to pay plaintiffs who win gun law lawsuits, could bankrupt cities.
The governor gets his revenue projections from the state treasurer and puts them in his budget. Legislators turn to their own expert in the Office of Legislative Services (OLS).
Richard Trumka, former head of the United Mine Workers and a graduate of Villanova Law School, now heads the national AFL-CIO.
In blunt testimony, SRC chairman Pedro Ramos said that the previous SRC applied stimulus money to new programs rather than using it to address the long-term structural imbalance of the district's budget.
It's an issue that has caught the attention of the ACLU.
The federal Violence Against Women Act helps enforce laws against offenders for domestic violence, sexual assault, and other crimes against women.
For the second time this year, a sitting member of the Pennsylvania legislature has been convicted of using taxpayer resources for campaign purposes.
One of the provisions of the federal health care reform law extends a parent's coverage of dependent children to age 26. But if the federal law is struck down, what then?
Do online advertisers know too much about you? The feds have been taking a look at that question -- and what to do about it.
Forty-seven percent of respondents in a new CBS News poll dissaprove of the law, while just 36 percent approve of it.
Mayor Nutter's budget experts were in the hot seat as Philadelphia City Council opened hearings on Nutter's plan to revamp the way property assessments are calculated in the city.
This coming Tuesday night's "Mega Millions" lottery jackpot has reached what's being reported as an American record cash jackpot of almost $260 million.
The United States Supreme Court begins three days of arguments on whether to kill or keep President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law. But it may be too soon for the court to make that decision.
Today brings the start of two months of Philadelphia City Council hearings on Mayor Nutter's new budget, and the process could get heated over Nutter's plan to overhaul property assessments, while bringing in $90-million extra to the Philadelphia School District.
Those ugly signs you see attached to utility poles -- offering to buy your home or car, cheap -- are the target of a new crackdown being launched later this spring by the Nutter administration.
