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Mar. 9, 2010: Mayors Plead for More Taxes
Mayors from Allentown to York converged on the state Capitol on Monday to urge lawmakers to give them more money-raising tools.
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Mar. 9, 2010: Pennsylvania Lawmakers Allowed to Testify in Bonusgate Trial, Judge Rules
A Dauphin County judge says defense lawyers at the public corruption trial of former House Democratic whip Mike Veon may call legislators as witnesses as long as their questions about the legislative process are limited. Todays order by Dauphin County Judge Richard Lewis clears the way for the defense to call to the witness stand Rep. Bill DeWeese, other legislators, former House members and aides.
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Mar. 9, 2010: House Panel's Swift Passage of Rendell Budget
HARRISBURG - Hoping to make this the first year since 2003 with an on-time budget, the House Appropriations Committee yesterday approved Rendell's proposed spending plan months ahead of the July 1 deadline.
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Mar. 9, 2010: Defense Witnesses Paint Veon as an Honest, Hard-Working Guy
HARRISBURG — Former House Democratic Whip Mike Veon's "word was his bond" in the General Assembly, where he garnered respect for his integrity and his efforts on behalf of working people, his friends and former colleagues told a jury yesterday.
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Mar. 8, 2010: Defense to Present its Case Today in Bonusgate
HARRISBURG -- Over five weeks, jurors heard from a string of House aides who say they were part of an army of state-paid political operatives.
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Mar. 5, 2010: Veon Defense Presses For Lawmakers To Testify
HARRISBURG -- At least nine Democratic state representatives could be called to testify in the public-corruption trial of a former colleague, depending on how the presiding judge rules on a courtroom debate Thursday.
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Mar. 5, 2010: State's January Jobless Rate Holds At 8.8%
The Pennsylvania employment report was released Thursday for January and contained mixed news, because while 22,000 more people were working than were in December, unemployment also rose by 4,000 people.
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Mar. 4, 2010: Pennsylvania State Senators Show No Interest In Cutting Off State Aid To Penn State, Pitt, Temple And Lincoln Universities
Leaders of the four so-called state-related universities - Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln - told state senators that their out-of-state tuition rates would become the rates they would charge to in-state students if state funding to their schools evaporated.
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Mar. 4, 2010: Slow Start To Pa. Gubernatorial Primary Races
By early March in 2002, the battle for governor of Pennsylvania already was escalating into the political equivalent of nuclear war.
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Mar. 4, 2010: Poll: Pennsylvania Voters Against Rendell Sales Tax Plan
HARRISBURG -- Voters oppose Gov. Ed Rendell's plan to reduce the state's sales tax and expand it to cover most items not taxed now, a poll released Wednesday shows.