Harrisburg
Vince Fumo Hospitalized With Heart Issues
6 ABC reports: Former Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo has been hospitalized in Kentucky due to heart health issues. Sources tell Action News that Fumo […]
Thank You, Pennsylvania. You’ve Been Buying Cars for State Officials
That is so generous of you. Since Jan. 1, 2007, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, using your money, has spent $407,496 unnecessarily buying new cars for its […]
Uber-Gerrymandering PA Senator Gets the Colbert Treatment
If you’re a state senator profiled on the Colbert report, you know you’ve gone rogue. Well, Republican State Senator Dominic Pileggi, the guy who wants […]
Eagles’ Trent Cole Boycotting Harrisburg Gun Show…Not For the Reason You Think
The Sandy Hook massacre was a tipping point, for gun control activists and for gun rights advocates. It took Sandy Hook for Barack Obama to […]
He’s Doing It! Corbett Plan to Privatize State Liquor Stores Imminent
Says the Inquirer of the plan: “It will be big, and it will be bold.” Corbett, fresh off a completely non-controversial and universally loved plan […]
Corbett Basically Breaks No-Tax Pledge; Gas About to Get More Expensive
Tom Corbett is caught between a rock in a hard place: Fund Pennsylvania’s decimated transportation infrastructure, or obey Grover Norquist’s no-tax pledge? It appears he’s […]
State Rep. Cherelle Parker Found Guilty of DUI
Nearly two years after being pulled over in Germantown for driving the wrong way down a one-way street (symptoms: glassy eyes, trouble standing. Likely culprit: […]
SEPTA Says It’s Got A Funding Crisis on its Hands
Because the state government has not released a new budget (and doesn’t appear likely to up SEPTA’s funding from last year), SEPTA declared in a […]
Should Ed Rendell Go to D.C.? Or Stay Home to Defeat Tom Corbett? Or Be New York’s Mayor?
One thing Ed Rendell doesn’t lack for is career options. The former governor is being mentioned by National Journal as a candidate for Transportation Secretary […]
Will Pennsylvania See Legal Marijuana in 2013?
Back in the ’70s, former Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer’s national commission on marijuana ultimately recommended the decriminalization of pot with reams of scientific evidence. President […]
Philly Rep. Brian Sims Named 12th Hottest Pol. Alive
The underdog does it again! First, this November, he became PA’s first-ever openly gay candidate elected to statewide office. Now, he’s been named one of […]
Looks Like Corbett’s Got Another Challenger
Washington County State Senator Tim Solobay is reportedly expanding an already bloated field of Democratic challengers. While Solobay lacks star power, he’s got geography on […]
Sims Makes Appointments
State Representative-Elect Brian Sims, the Commonwealth’s first openly gay member of the legislature, made two key staff appointments. He named Mason Lane as his chief of […]
Why We Shouldn’t Kill Hubert Michael
In a popular referendum on election night, the State of California voted by a small margin to keep its death penalty intact; two days later, […]
Judge Says Pennsylvania Must Allow Full View of Prisoner Execution
A federal judge has ruled in favor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Harrisburg Patriot-News, barring state officials from using curtains or other methods to […]