Category: News
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New Corbett Admin Report Reinforces Dire Pension Picture, Offers Reforms.
Allentown Morning Call Budget Secretary Charles Zogby’s office released its first comprehensive overview of the state’s dire public pension crisis this afternoon, concluding that if the problem remains unaddressed the “state’s […]
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Congressman Fights To Keep 911th Air Wing Open
WTAE A Pennsylvania congressman is fighting to keep an air wing from being closed. U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy wants to save the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon Township. Murphy said […]
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Greenleaf Among Senate’s Most Productive Lawmakers
Doylestown Intelligencer In 36 years as a member of Pennsylvania’s General Assembly, state Sen. Stewart Greenleaf has had many fruitful sessions. But in the latest one, which officially concludes at […]
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Group Readies Final Report Reviewing State’s Child Protection Laws
WITF Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler chairs the PA Task Force on Child Protection, which disbands at the end of the year. The panel was created by the General […]
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DEP Secretary: Pennsylvania Continues To Benefit From Marcellus Shale
Harrisburg Patriot-News It is now unanimous: America’s potential domestic energy production is off the charts and Pennsylvania is the sweet spot. The International Energy Agency just issued its landmark annual […]
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Pennsylvania Could Be A Path Forward For G.O.P.
New York Times The last ballots in the presidential election were cast more than two weeks ago. But votes in 37 states, and the District of Columbia, are still being […]
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Scott Perry One Of 9 Iraq, Afghan War Veterans Joining Congress
Associated Press As Tammy Duckworth sees it, her path to Congress began when she awoke in the fall of 2004 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She was missing both […]
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Corbett Has High Hopes For Shell Plant To Be Built In Pa.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette With an end-of-the-year deadline looming on its Beaver County land deal, Gov. Tom Corbett says he’s confident Royal Dutch Shell remains on track to build its proposed petrochemical […]
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New Law Targets Criminal Gang Activity In Pennsylvania
State Rep. Tarah Toohil Hazleton Standard Speaker Earlier this week, a group of volunteers and I spent a few hours cleaning up the Arthur Street Elementary School playground in Hazleton. […]