Budget Deadlock Approaching 3rd Week With No Talks Planned
No negotiations between the Wolf administration and leaders of the Legislature's Republican majority are scheduled as Pennsylvania's budget stalemate approaches its third week.
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No negotiations between the Wolf administration and leaders of the Legislature's Republican majority are scheduled as Pennsylvania's budget stalemate approaches its third week.
Pennsylvania's attorney general says Gov. Tom Wolf's death penalty moratorium is blatantly unconstitutional and wants the state Supreme Court to clear the way for the state's first execution since 1999.
First, United Airlines, then the New York Stock Exchange, and then the Wall Street Journal; travel, money and news were all interrupted Wednesday by computer glitches.
Pittsburgh City Council has simplified an ordinance governing people who want to keep chickens, ducks or goats on their property.
The Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System occasionally delayed reporting test results for patients suspected of having Legionnaires' disease, but treatment wasn't affected by those delays, the VA's Office of Inspector General said in a report issued Tuesday.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf isn't backing off his demand for a new state budget after vetoing a $30.2 billion document passed solely by Republican state lawmakers.
Workers recently demonstrated downtown, demanding that all employers provide paid sick leave to everyone who works in the city.
The Wolf administration and top lawmakers are expected to resume talking as Pennsylvania state government starts its new fiscal year with limited spending authority because the sides didn't reach agreement on budget legislation.
Gov. Tom Wolf has vetoed a bill that would have privatized the sales of wine, liquor.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's veto message to state lawmakers says the budget they've just sent him doesn't spend enough on education and will make the state's deficit worse.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday he will veto the Republican-crafted spending plan that the GOP's huge majorities in the state Legislature sent to him just hours before the state government's fiscal year ended.
Proposals to move Pennsylvania's newly hired public school employees and state workers into a 401(k)-style retirement plan and to privatize liquor sales faced state lawmakers Monday, less than two days before the annual budget deadline.
A bill to allow private licensees to take over the state-controlled sale of wine and liquor in Pennsylvania is under construction by House and Senate Republicans.
Pennsylvania lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Sunday amid expectations the Republican majority will soon send the Democratic governor a state budget he has threatened to veto and other legislation he may also reject.
Rainbows and good cheer were out in force Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people packed gay pride events from Chicago to New York City, where the governor officiated at a wedding, just days after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.
