Harrisburg
Times They Are A-Changin’: Tom Ridge Now Supports Gay Marriage
Tom Ridge, who codified Pennsylvania’s gay marriage ban into law in 1996, has signed an amicus curiae brief lobbying the Supreme Court to strike down […]
Everybody in Harrisburg is Basically Shilling for the Gas Industry
NPR’s StateImpact flagged a report yesterday called “Fracking and the Revolving Door in Pennsylvania,” and it’s pretty breathtaking. To summarize: Many of the powerful former officials […]
Corbett to Reconsider Obamacare Expansion? He’s Meeting with Sebelius to Discuss
Tom Corbett, unlike his fellow northeastern Republican Chris Christie, rejected the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. (To the detriment of, like, half a million people.) […]
If PA Lottery Privatization Loses, The Privatizers Still Win
Must be nice to be in a business where losing out on a contract nets you a million-dollar payday. NewsWorks reports: “The state could be […]
PA Wine Label Once the “17th Most Popular in the U.S.”
Remember those complaints last month that state-owned liquor stores were giving prime shelf space to the PLCB brand of Table Leaf wine? Well, during his […]
Why Is Tom Corbett So Unpopular?
National Journal looks at why Pennsylvania’s governor can’t seem to gain any traction. Much of the problem is continuing fallout from the Jerry Sandusky case […]
Does New PA Election Bill Really Qualify as “Vote Rigging?”
Last week, 13 Pennsylvania Republican state senators introduced a bill that would change the way the state’s electoral college votes are awarded. (You may have […]
Three Ways Conservatives Are Smarter Than Liberals
Over the weekend, liberal MSNBC host Chris Hayes revealed he’d been asked to sit on a panel at CPAC, an annual gathering of the nation’s […]
PA Justice Joan Orie Melvin Found Guilty of Corruption
Politics PA reports: “Pa. Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin is guilty of 6 out of 7 counts of corruption, a jury found Thursday afternoon. She […]
Former Rendell Consigliere David L. Cohen Backing Tom Corbett in ’14
Comcast VP David L. Cohen, the one-man political machine (and not in the Tammany Hall way) who ran Rendell’s early-days City Hall operations, will be […]
Revised U.S. Map Erases Pennsylvania, Makes Philadelphia Its Own State
NYC artist and urban planner Neil Freeman has divided the United States into 50, equally-sized states, each bearing a population of around 6,175,000. Under this formula, […]
Voter ID Won’t Take Effect for Pennsylvania Primary Election
You won’t need your ID this May 21st, for the statewide primary election, as the Corbett administration and the folks suing him reached an agreement […]
AG Says Gov. Corbett Can’t Privatize the Pennsylvania Lottery
Well, Harrisburg is going to be a lot more interesting now that Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane is around to keep an eye on Republican […]
Three Republicans Join Gay-Rights Caucus in Harrisburg
PoliticsPA reports that the the “Equality Caucus” of state legislators added three Republican members this week—the first from the GOP—doubling the size of the caucus […]
Republicans Plan to Use PA to Win the Presidency in 2016
One of the worst-kept secrets of the 2012 general election is that Republicans didn’t really sweep another majority in the House. Yes, the new House […]