02.22.17 |
Lawmakers say priority number one is offsetting a more than two billion dollar fiscal hole. Senator John Blake of Lackawanna County says the issue will be a big part of the discussion moving forward.The governor has proposed balancing the budget ...
02.22.17 |
The Freedom from Religion Foundation says it received a signed settlement last week from the New Kensington-Arnold School District. The district will shell out $164,000 to cover a fine and legal fees. The challenge to the 6-foot-high monument was ...
02.21.17 |
Senate Bill 22 would establish an independent 11-member commission; four from each of the two major political parties and three not affiliated with either party. Commission members would not be allowed to hold a political or party office, be ...
02.21.17 |
Representative Kathy Rapp says House Bill 77 makes it a third-degree felony for physicians to perform abortions at 20 weeks gestation. Current law bans abortions after 24 weeks in Pennsylvania.Less than two weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Senate ...
02.21.17 |
The measure has bipartisan support in the house and senate and would allow involuntary commitment of a drug user after an overdose. The proposal is fueled by the growing opioid epidemic that is rippling across the northeast. The ACLU says it will ...
02.20.17 |
Some inmates have already been sent to other detention facilities. Prison staff have until Friday to say where they'd like to be transferred. The state is still trying to figure out what it plans to do with that 24-acre site on the Ohio River, ...
02.20.17 |
He says ambulance services are in a state of crisis due to "a lack of personnel and a lack of financial resources." Causer's bill would increase the fine on speeding tickets to pay for efforts to upgrade equipment and training for ambulance ...
02.20.17 |
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf is proposing hiking the hourly minimum from $7.25 to $12. That would be the nation’s highest. He is tying the proposal to his budget plan as a way to provide more tax revenue. Some Republicans say a minimum wage ...
02.17.17 |
But Senator John Eichelberger wants to eliminate those guarantees and let each school district negotiate that benefit with individual teachers’ unions.The Pennsylvania School Boards Association is on board noting that each district knows ...
02.17.17 |
It began it's slow journey nearly a month ago in Schenectady, New York. The massive General Electric turbine moved along at top speeds of 5 to 10 miles per hour. Traffic detours were set up in the areas where this massive piece of machinery ...
