President Obama Visits PA
President Obama made his first visit since announcing his re-election this past week, to Bucks County, PA.
April 6, 2011
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President Obama made his first visit since announcing his re-election this past week, to Bucks County, PA.
A state savings of about $6 million to help lessen the state budget deficit. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Gov. Tom Corbett is now asking state workers to take a 4 percent pay cut in the first year of their next contract after rejecting a union offer for a pay freeze just months ago.
Sen. Casey has signed on to legislation that would pay soldiers during a government shutdown. Aides in the Obama administration have said that if there is a government shutdown at midnight on Friday, that would fall in the middle of the military’s two week pay cycle. Soldiers would only receive half the amount they would normally get paid and would not be paid the rest until a budget agreement was hammered out. Sen. Casey has been active in shutdown legislation, recently pressing for legislation that would cut off the salaries of members of congress in the event of a shutdown.
Anonymity claims many unseated politicians like ex-Senator Rick Santorum (especially after losing by 18 points) – but with his tendency for ostentatious and outlandish remarks, Santorum has remained near the top of discussion in the 2012 GOP Presidential race.
Allegheny County Council President Rich Fitzgerald, seeking the Democratic nomination for County Executive, launched the first television ad of the campaign Friday.
Obama to PA today, more Allegheny poll numbers, and State Senator Judy Schwank.
Because gasoline prices have risen, the state’s gasoline revenues have diminished and is causing concern from our state leaders. A new “mileage tax” is being considered as one potential way to alleviate those concerns.
This week the Delaware County Daily Times reported that fifty-nine year old Paul Summers, of Drexel Hill, entered guilty pleas for seven counts of forgery and seven counts of false signatures that were circulated during the primary election March 2010.
The education talk in Harrisburg has mostly been about Governor Corbett’s cuts to public universities and school districts in the state, but one of the most controversial issues in education reform has been the use of vouchers in the school choice bill.
Allegheny Controller Mark Patrick Flaherty holds a slight lead over Rich Fitzgerald, the President of Allegheny County Council, in the Democratic race for County Executive.
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