Gov. Corbett Unveils Proposed 'Impact Fees' on Natural Gas Drillers
The governor is proposing a fee that would collect a total of $160,000 per natural gas well over a 10-year period.
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The governor is proposing a fee that would collect a total of $160,000 per natural gas well over a 10-year period.
A final decision will come in a week or so, after September tax revenue figures come in.
Gov. Chris Christie wants to give New Jersey towns more incentive to consider mergers.
City Council two weeks ago overrode a veto by the mayor and gave final approval to a series of changes to DROP. The union representing city blue-collar workers says changes must be negotiated.
The senior citizen advocacy group "AARP" and the Mayor's Commission on Aging are surveying various Philadelphia intersections to determine how safe they are for the city's 50+ population.
"I expect to see only modest declines in the unemployment rate," Charles Plosser told the breakfast gathering, "probably little change over the rest of this year but then gradually falling to 8½, perhaps 8 percent by the end of 2012."
There was a rush in Trenton yesterday to make sure no New Jersey state official gets a pay raise anytime soon by, in effect, putting the panel that approves the increases out of business.
Vernetta Burger told the City Council committee that after she denied her estranged husband a visit, he broke down the door and beat her to a point where she feared for her life. When she later decided to move, the landlord held her to terms of her lease.
State rep Kathy Watson believes the most significant provision of her bill will be one that makes it a primary offense for anyone under the age of 18 not to be properly restrained.
It was originally supposed to go into effect last July, but has yet to be implemented as city officials try to make adjustments to it.
Rep. Pat Meehan (at lectern) figures some 2,600 jobs are on the line if three Delaware County refineries shut down.
Some dramatic testimony dominated the hearing. Several women who have been abused by their husbands or ex-husbands testified that they couldn't get out of leases when they tried to move.
Activists in Pennsylvania are decrying the demise of mortgage assistance programs at both the state and federal levels.
With Pennsylvania still reeling from the one-two punch of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, state House and Senate committees held a joint hearing into the notion of creating some form of state disaster assistance program, as 25 other states have.
The long-planned expansion of Philadelphia International Airport is getting a shot in the arm with an infusion of cash from Washington.
