Category: Governor’s Office News

Harrisburg Patriot-News Gov. Tom Corbett will release his proposed plan tomorrow in Pittsburgh to privatize Pennsylvania’s liquor system. A press conference is scheduled for 2 p.m., and comes just days […]

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Gov. Tom Corbett said on Tuesday his 2013-14 budget would pay to hire 290 state police cadets and 90 civilian police dispatchers to brace the state police against […]

Doylestown Intelligencer With state revenues exceeding expectations, Pennsylvania’s education secretary on Tuesday said that Gov. Tom Corbett will propose an increase in public education funding when he unveils his 2013-14 […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The budget proposal due next week from Gov. Tom Corbett will require savings in public employee pensions to avoid significant cuts elsewhere, the governor’s budget secretary said this […]

Harrisburg Patriot-News State Budget Secretary Charles Zogby dubbed 2013 as the year of pension reform. And if that doesn’t prove to be the case, he suggested schools might want to […]

Philadelphia Inquirer Gov. Corbett said Wednesday that he would increase funding for intellectually disabled adults to $20 million in the state’s 2013-14 budget, which will allow 1,200 people – 100 […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In a glimpse of his upcoming budget address, Gov. Tom Corbett announced a proposal likely to enjoy broad support: additional funding to help people with intellectual disabilities live […]

Associated Press Gov. Tom Corbett will announce that he plans to request more money from the Legislature to help the mentally disabled get services that help them live independently. Corbett […]

WTAE Gov. Tom Corbett will have a lot at stake politically when he delivers his third budget address on Feb. 5. In recent weeks the first-term Republican has provided numerous […]