Harrisburg
Corbett’s Effort to Redeem Penn State Quashed as Judge Dismisses His Lawsuit Against NCAA
Tom Corbett’s quest to win over a state full of resentful and suspicious Penn Staters has come to a screeching halt after a federal juge dismissed […]
State Approves Bill to Eliminate Traffic Court
What a sight to see: Harrisburg helping Philadelphia. The State House this week has passed a bill yesterday that will effectively neuter the city’s hopelessly […]
3,000 Jobs Hang in Balance as SRC Votes on “Doomsday Budget”
Today, the School Reform Commission is essentially voting on whether to doom the Philadelphia Public School District as we know it. The school district is […]
The Consequences of PA’s Fracking Boom In One Statistic
The entire debate about the merits of Pennsylvania’s fracking boom rests on the tricky question of whether people’s air and water are being contaminated by […]
2 Republican Senators Are Worried that PA Terrorists Are Getting Welfare
Are there any Pennsylvanians on the federal terrorist watchlist receiving welfare assistance? And if so, how can we prevent them from getting it? Those are […]
Actually, Tom Corbett Has One Latino Staff Member
Calm down lefty media hyperventilators! After you all jumped down Tom Corbett’s throat for his comment about having no Latino staff members, the Governor’s people […]
Diddy Was in Harrisburg Yesterday, Pimping His Vodka
Diddy, aka Sean Combs, is an official endorser of Ciroc vodka. Which explains why the erstwhile rapper was in nightlife, USA, yesterday meeting with the […]
Why Harrisburg Is More Corrupt Than Other State Capitals
Wonkblog directs our attention to a recent paper that finds a correlation between public state-level corruption and the state capital’s proximity to the major population […]
First Openly Gay GOP Candidate Running for General Assembly
We’re a little late to this, but with a special election for PA’s 95th House District taking place Tuesday, here’s an election day tidbit to […]
Millersville U. REALLY Doesn’t Want Governor to Speak at Graduation
Basically nobody at Millersville University is excited for the Governor of Pennsylvania to deliver their commencement address tomorrow. They blame him for the budget cutbacks […]
State GOP Demands to Know What the Hell Joe Sestak Is Up To
Joe Sestak has raised a lot of money in the past couple months. Nearly $500,000 of I’m running for something money, in fact. But he’s […]
Former PA Gov. George Leader Has Died
According to AP state politics reporter Marc Levy: HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Funeral home says former Pa. Gov. George Leader hasdied at age 95. — […]
Can A Court Really “Shame” Justice Joan Orie Melvin?
For her various crimes of political corruption, State Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin has been handed sort of an odd sentence. Three years house […]
Tom Corbett Is Very, Very Unpopular
More news from that F&M poll we talked about earlier: Tom Corbett’s approval rating is low—very low: Only 25 percent of Pennsylvania voters believe the […]
GOP Legislators Call SEPTA Funding A Form of “Welfare”
Some of our betters in Harrisburg apparently think so. City Paper’s Dan Denvir reports: Funding for SEPTA and other public transit is “subsidizing a minority […]