05.06.13 |
Did you know there are places in Pennsylvania-- where you can legally hunt wild boar? Wild boar on Pennsylvania hunting preserves are at the center of a legal and legislative struggle that comes to a head next month. It's an issue that pits ...
05.06.13 |
Maria Cuomo-Cole - the sister of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo - tweeted a message last week saying she's behind an effort to get a woman in the White House in 2016. Cuomo-Cole is backing EMILY's List - an initiative that just last week ...
05.03.13 |
An appeals court in New York has ruled towns have the power to ban drilling, if they choose to. A mid-level court in New York has ruled local municipalities can use local zoning laws to ban the practice within city limits. The four-judge ...
05.03.13 |
The New York Senate’s only openly gay lawmaker wants to outlaw a "conversion therapy" for young people who are confused about their sexual orientation. Legislation introduced by senator Brad Hoylman would bar mental health providers from ...
05.03.13 |
A Roman Catholic Bishop that was loved across the state of Pennsylvania has passed away. The headlines of the death of Bishop Joseph McFadden has been printed in dozens of newspapers across the state today, from Erie to Wilkes-Barre. He'd been in a ...
05.03.13 |
What does that mean? It means volunteers will come out by the thousands across the Empire State to volunteer and clean up their local state parks, town parks, historic sites, trails, and playgrounds. The effort started last year to help parks ...
05.02.13 |
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is taking heat from democrats for saying on a radio program this week that the reason the state unemployment rate is so high-- is that the people applying for jobs-- can't pass drug tests. Corbett's comments ...
05.02.13 |
Months after the Cuomo administration promised a decision "within weeks" on whether to allow hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, it now says there's "no timetable for a decision."State officials say recent meetings with the U.S. Environmental ...
05.02.13 |
Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the bill is nearly done-- but does not have enough support yet to overcome Republican opposition in the Senate. He said special attention is being paid to the wording, hoping changing the language will sway ...
05.01.13 |
We now know the name of the group that asked the Pentagon to stop religious proselytizing among soldiers, calling it "on par with sexual assault." The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says "if you have a large Bible in your desk, what's the ...
