07.25.14 |
A commission tasked with coming up with a recommendation for overhauling the funding system that provides key state support to Pennsylvania's public schools is now operational. The Basic Education Funding Commission members met on Thursday ...
07.25.14 |
If you're one of the thousands of Pennsylvania state employees being paid Friday, you may want to make sure your money made it into your account. Earlier this month, the Treasury Department upgraded its computer systems and there were coding issues ...
07.24.14 |
The Pennsylvania Game Commission says July 31st is the deadline for hunters to enter the lottery to receive one of 108 elk licenses to be issued this year. The deadline is about a month earlier than normal because game officials are holding the ...
07.24.14 |
Republicans who control the Senate have hired outside counsel to decide whether -- or even how -- to challenge Corbett's veto of roughly $7.2 million in legislative earmarks in a budget-related bill called the fiscal code. The code is often ...
07.23.14 |
Auditor General Eugene Depasquale says the D.E.P. tried hard, but when Pennsylvania's gas industry boomed, there wern't enough inspectors to keep an eye on all the new wells. Hi audit took place from 2009-2012 and found no standard policy for when ...
07.23.14 |
Jay Paterno and another former assistant football coach at Penn State are suing the university over how they were dismissed from the staff when Bill O'Brien was hired as head coach two years ago. Paterno and William Kenney have filed a lawsuit in ...
07.22.14 |
There's a vote taking place in a u.s. Senate committee today that would affect parent's rights. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, poised to vote on the United Nations Disabilities treaty. The Homeschool Legal Defense Organization says it will ...
07.22.14 |
Pennsylvania's bond rating has been downgraded by Moody's Investors Service. It might be a black eye to the state's government, but the state's taxpayers will share the pain. Like a credit rating, the bond rating determines a lender's risk and the ...
07.22.14 |
An independent news group called Public Source is reporting that Pennsylvania police are failing to fingerprint thousands of suspects every year, jeopardizing background check systems at the state and federal levels.Lawmakers are uncertain what ...
07.21.14 |
Speaking in a radio interview, Corbett said the Obama administration hasn't called to discuss its plans to find places for the children to stay. The governor said he’s worried that state dollars would be necessary to care for children coming ...
