11/26 Morning Buzz

PA-state-flag6Wolf unveils budget task force, we ask our readers whether they approve of Kathleen Kane’s performance and voters look forward to next year’s State Supreme Court elections.

PA-Gov: Wolf Introduces Budget Task Force: The Governor-elect named the members of his Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization Task Force today.

Reader Poll: Do You Approve of Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s Job Performance?: We ask our readers whether they approve of the job AG Kathleen Kane is doing.

Reader Poll: Readers Most Looking Forward to Supreme Court Elections: A majority of our respondents are anticipating the State Supreme Court elections over the Philly Mayoral race.

PA-3: Rep. Kelly Promotes Ebola Bill: Congressman Mike Kelly submitted a bill to revoke visas for foreigners entering the U.S. from Ebola stricken African countries.

Statewide
State House Sound Bites: Doctors say awareness can lower infant mortality rate
State House Sound Bites: More pangs for your buck
PLSReporter: A Closer Look: Capitol Preservation Committee with David Craig
PLSReporter: Freshman Focus: Dave Zimmerman (R-Lancaster)
StateImpactPA: Gov’t Data Sharpens Focus on Crude-Oil Train Routes
StateImpactPA: Most natural gas now comes from shale
PA Independent: PA Senate leader: Complicated bills unlikely to reach Corbett before term ends

Philadelphia
WHYY Newsworks: As fraud allegations mount against Chesapeake Energy, so does frustration
WHYY Newsworks: Philly protesters again stand with those in Ferguson
Commonwealth Confidential: Wolf rounds out panel of fiscal advisers
Inquirer: Protests, pleas for calm outside City Hall after Ferguson announcement
Inquirer: Villanova wins conditional approval for $300M expansion
ProPublica: Analysis: Local governments often unaware of oil transport dangers

SEPA
Mercury: Pottstown-area leaders react to Ferguson decision
Media: No tax hike in Montgomery County’s proposed 2015 budget
Daily Times: Radnor approve massive Villanova expansion plan
County Courier Times: Bensalem schools won’t extend superintendent’s contract

Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette: Avonworth, teachers extend contract to 2017-18
Post-Gazette: Suspended Brentwood police chief gets $200,000 settlement to leave
Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh schools superintendent calls for changes in state education funding formula
Post-Gazette: Deal between Uber, Airport Authority concerning fines falls through
Post-Gazette: Casey calls for tax incentives to encourage donations to food banks
Tribune-Review: Allegheny County officials to continue shuttle service in airport corridor, Mon Valley
Business Times: Supreme Court to review EPA rules on coal plan emissions
Business Times: Shale wells become leading source of natural gas – and Pennsylvania is second-biggest producer
KDKA: Pittsburghers React To Ferguson Decision In City-Wide Protests

Southwest
County Times: PA Cyber attorney didn’t work for Trombetta, board president says
County Times: Shell could spend more than $40 million to relocate electric transmission lines
Mirror: Judge approves 2.5-mill tax hike
Mirror: Borough secures sidewalk funds

NEPA
Times Leader: SBC receives small business loans for new equipment, new jobs
Times Leader: Luzerne County deficit increases
Times Leader: Judge appoints new board members to county Flood Authority
Times Leader: Speaking at food bank in Pittston, U.S. Sen. Casey wants to boost donations
Standard Speaker: City code officials’ performance questioned
Standard Speaker: New HASD hire, nonprofit will solicit funds
Citizens Voice: Audit: County ran $6.1 million deficit in 2013
Times-Tribune: Scranton School Board: look at chemical costs, changing school calendar to cut costs
Times-Tribune: COLTS will continue Saturday bus service for now
Times-Tribune: Dunmore approves Keystone landfill agreement

South Central
Patriot News: Kathleen Kane returns to Harrisburg in carefully managed press conference
Patriot News: Anyone working on Gov.-elect Tom Wolf’s inauguration committee must sign this ethical conduct agreement
Patriot News: Pa. Turnpike CEO: Porn emails are an ‘unfortunate but isolated incident’
Patriot News: Pay raise: How legislators from Columbia and Cumberland counties are handling it
Patriot News: Retiring House Speaker Sam Smith rants, rips and reflects at Pa. Press Club luncheon
York Daily Record: Wolf Organization’s Michael Newsome named to Gov.-elect Tom Wolf’s budget task force
York Daily Record: Cosby philanthropy shadowed by sexual allegations
Lancaster Intelligencer: Lancaster community leaders react to Ferguson
Lancaster Intelligencer: Ferguson decision sparks protests in Pennsylvania
The Sentinel: Tom Wolf has named his Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization Task Force

Lehigh Valley
Morning Call: Pennsylvania Turnpike employees disciplined over sexually explicit emails
Express Times: Easton council approves commuter tax hike
Express Times: Ferguson decision in Michael Brown shooting sparks Allentown protest
Reading Eagle: $90.8 million budget, new 5-year Act 47 recovery plan approved by Reading City Council
Reading Eagle: Panel tackles Pennsylvania’s broken basic education funding system

North by Northwest
Williamsport Sun Gazette: Philly hosts Ferguson protest: ‘no racist police’
Williamsport Sun Gazette: Jeff Wheeland set for move to Harrisburg
Centre Daily Times: State college leaders weigh in on budget
Erie Times-News: AG charges 11 in bath salts probe
Erie Times-News: At least 18 injured in Ferguson related protests

Opinion
Times-Tribune: Addressing jobs, addiction
Post-Gazette: Welfare vs. human services in Pennsylvania
Williamsport Sun Gazette: Reassess strategy for stopping the threat of ISIS
Williamsport Sun Gazette: Minimum wages and states
Express Times: Senate should act on judicial vacancies now, not later
Morning Call: I know how hard it is to charge officers like Darren Wilson
Morning Call: Is racism behind critical coverage of Bill Cosby?
Patriot News: Republicans should forget compromise, rein in Obama: PennLive letters
Patriot News: Pennsylvania’s ad hoc school funding is unfair, unpredictable: PennLive letters
Inquirer: Poverty still the enemy
Inquirer: Climate change views differ: As a species, we must evolve
Local News: LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Decision not to reappoint Tony Bush to the Lower Makefield Planning Commission ‘brazen’ political payback

Blogs
Citizen’s Call: Auto Repair Shop Planned for La Mott Finds Opposition at Zoning Hearing
Lu-Lac Political Letter: Maybe I’m Amazed

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