What Really happened (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
The Harrisburg Chapter of the NAACP is calling on Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell to suspend some civil liberties and impose martial law in the city to halt the wave of recent lawlessness. WRH permalink
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
HARRISBURG, Pa., June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today asked President Barack Obama to authorize federal disaster aid that will help families and businesses in Allegheny and ...
Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
The Harrisburg Chapter of the NAACP is calling on Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell to suspend some civil liberties and impose martial law in the city to halt the wave of recent lawlessness. Chapter President Stanley Lawson also called on Rendell to bring in the state National Guard for at least 30 days and to impose a curfew. In June, there have been at least 12 shootings, many of them in the daytime,...
1490 NewsBlog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
HARRISBURG – Governor Edward G. Rendell has signed execution warrants for Gregory Powell, 49, who murdered his 6-year-old son in 1997 in Philadelphia; and Michael Pruitt, 45, who raped and strangled to death a 69-year-old Sunday school teacher in 2002 in Reading. Powell obtained sole custody of his son, Raymond Graves, while the child’s mother was in a drug and alcohol treatment program,...
1490 NewsBlog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Governor Ed Rendell says his proposed 16 percent increase in the state's personal income tax is fair for everyone. The unemployed, the poor, and senior citizens won't have to pay it. It'll just be average Pennsylvanians who will be helping out their less fortunate neighbors (and helping to pay for the increase in spending he's proposed over last year's budget) during the Commonwealth's financial crisis....
Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
This letter from a Chester County resident originally published in The Mercury gets right to the point about the tax hike proposals being pushed by Gov. Ed Rendell and House Democrats. You should send something similar to your state representative, especialy if he's a Democrat. No tax is ever 'temporary' An open letter to state Rep. Paul Drucker, 157th District: Consider yourself lucky. You have a...
1490 NewsBlog (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Pennsylvania's state-related universities – including the University of Pittsburgh – would see a total of $82 million in funding cuts according to figures Governor Ed Rendell released late this morning. Earlier this month Rendell ordered his department heads to cut $500 million from his budget proposal. Among the cuts they announced today are $7.5 million for public libraries and $45 million...
Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Can't argue with the logic in the latest column by Colin McNickle of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: If Ed Rendell's "economic development programs" are such a bloody success, as Gov. Bloody Mess keeps chanting, why does he propose a wallet-robbing personal income tax hike that will suck $1.5 billion out of the economy and result in the demise of more than 24,000 jobs? ... If Gov. B.M. doesn't...
Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Let's sum up Gov. Ed Rendell's fiscal accomplishments over the past seven years. In his first year in office, Rendell signed the second biggest income tax increase in Pennsylvania history. With more revenue coming, Rendell went on a spending spree. Rendell has increased state spending by 40 percent over the past six years, an increase of nearly $8 billion. The current General Fund budget is projected...
WPPA & WAVT LOCAL NEWS (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
SENTENCING TODAY TWO SHENANDOAH TEENAGERS WILL LEARN THEIR FATE TODAY FOR THEIR ROLE IN THE DEATH OF A MEXICAN ILLEGAL LAST SUMMER. DERRICK DONCHAK AND BRANDON PIEKARSKY, WHO WERE FOUND GUILTY OF LESSER CHARGES IN APRIL WILL BE SENTENCED BY JUDGE WILLIAM BALDWIN AT 1:30PM. THE PAIR WERE ACQUITTED OF MORE SERIOUS CHARGES IN THE DEATH OF LUIS RAMIREZ NEAR A SHENANDOAH PARK. THERE HAS BEEN A MOVEMENT...
Capitol Ideas with John L. Micek (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
As he seeks to close a $3.2 billion budget deficit, Gov. Ed Rendell will ask state lawmakers to approve a half-percentage point increase to Pennsylvania's 3.07 personal income tax. According to reports published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this morning, Rendell...
Joe Scott 3: Body Politic (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Chairman, was the early front runner to win the party’s gubernatorial nomination in Virginia yesterday. But State Sen. Creigh Deeds, surging from third place with a stunning close, beat both him and state Del. Brian Moran by getting more than 50 percent of the vote. Deeds, a moderate, rural-based Democrat like the two mainstream Democratic governors,...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
? PA-Sen : Seems like Joe Sestak cleared his Senate run with his family, as now he only has to run it by the Almighty: "It would take an act of God for me to not get in now," he said on Saturday. Meanwhile, the state's political establishment, led by Ed Rendell, feted Arlen Specter at the state party's quarterly meeting on Friday (with Sestak in attendance). ? FL-Sen : From sitting Senator...
Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Rob Gleason released the following commentary in advance of U.S. Senator Arlen Specter's official debut before his new party this weekend at the Democrat State Committee meeting in Pittsburgh: Buyer Beware! Dems Should Be Aware That Above All, Specter Belongs To The Party Of ME Two months ago, Senator Arlen Specter made the decision to change parties and turn...
LAist (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Vice President Joe Biden, center, flanked by Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, left, and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, speaks at a roundtable discussion to discuss high speed rail (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) Today, the California High Speed Rail Board meets to discuss a number of things , but mainly the route between Anaheim and Union Station and up to the 134 Freeway, which could be on of the first...
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