A potential $140 million surplus in state reimbursements for Pennsylvania's school district pension costs should be plowed back into the pension system to help cover the mushrooming taxpayer share of the ...
Bob Mellow, the one-time top Democrat in the Pennsylvania state Senate, must report by Friday afternoon to a federal prison camp in South Carolina to serve a 16-month term stemming from a corruption case against him, the Times-Tribune newspaper of Scranton reported.
Bob Mellow, the one-time top Democrat in the Pennsylvania state Senate, must report by Friday afternoon to a federal prison camp in South Carolina to serve a 16-month term stemming from a corruption case against him, the Times-Tribune newspaper of Scranton reported.
Faced with a question about fellow Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin’s inflammatory remarks about “legitimate rape,” Pennsylvania’s Tom Smith today likened his own daughter’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy to rape. Smith quickly backed off the statement, The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News reported, when pressed by reporters about whether he...
HARRISBURG - In one fell swoop late Saturday night, the state Senate confirmed a slate of judges to fill vacancies in county courts, including Philadelphia's, while quietly addressing concerns of the state's top jurist by tossing in funding to ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — After several years of stalled efforts, state lawmakers are finalizing legislation to borrow billions of dollars to pay off an unemployment compensation debt owed by businesses to the federal government left over from the huge wave ...
The Pennsylvania Senate on Wednesday passed a $27.7 billion spending plan that would erase many cuts proposed by Gov. Tom Corbett, setting the stage for negotiations over the state budget that must be in place by July 1.
That's the key difference in this race." Welch insists that he voted for McCain and returned to the Republican Party after switching to the Democratic Party for several years out of frustration with Republican-controlled Washington. Smith's generous ...
