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Rising Pa. prison costs due to tougher laws, corrections chief reminds lawmakers
A hearing between state lawmakers and the head of Pennsylvania’s prisons system has turned into a familiar two-step over the agency ...
12 years ago
Pa. AG pressed on timeline of Sandusky case review
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is being pressed for answers on when she’ll wrap up an investigation of the prosecution ...
12 years ago
Worn out, Pa. House speaker calls it quits after 27 years in Legislature
Pennsylvania’s House speaker says he won’t run for reelection this year, after 27 years serving in the Legislature. Sa ...
12 years ago
Differing Pa. revenue projections pose challenge in budget talks
Lawmakers are scratching their heads over two different economic analyses that are key to putting together a budget for Pennsylvania. ...
12 years ago
Dems, Pa. budget chief wrangle over payments to state pension system
Governor Tom Corbett’s budget secretary has taken aim at a few criticisms of the governor’s $29.4 billion spending plan for P ...
12 years ago
Pa. Dems take issue with Corbett school funding plan
State Democratic leaders are beginning to make finer points of disagreement with Gov. Tom Corbett on the centerpiece of his budget propos ...
12 years ago
Pa. Agricultural funding plan a mixed bag
Proposed increases to farming-related programs are prompting warm and fuzzy feelings at the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. At the same ...
12 years ago
Corbett budget would shift, not deplete, tobacco fund
Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget proposal includes a number of one-time revenue sources, but the plan for a special fund — that you ...
12 years ago
Pa. National Guard ready to help out in wake of ice storm
Nearly 700 Pennsylvania National Guard troops are on standby in case they’re needed to help in cleaning up the snowy, slushy, icy m ...
12 years ago
Pa. Dems rebuff Corbett budget plan, calling it full of ‘gimmicks’
Gov. Tom Corbett’s $29.4 billion Pennsylvania budget plan is being criticized by Democrats as too little, too late. The gove ...
12 years ago
Corbett relying on unresolved items to help fund $29.4 billion budget plan
Gov. Tom Corbett delivered his fourth budget address Tuesday, calling for more than $900 million in additional spending in Pennsylvania o ...
12 years ago
Corbett expected to again call for change in Pa. pension system funding
Gov. Tom Corbett is expected to use his budget address Tuesday to suggest some kind of public pension overhaul in Pennsylvania — bu ...
12 years ago