Gov. Corbett chastised university officials that failed to stop former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky from abusing children. Appearing in front of numerous national television audiences, the freshman governor came across as a confident prosecutor committed to making things right at Penn State. Since then there has been a change of tone in the public sphere, and critics have begun to ask why Gov. Corbett why he didn’t do more to stop Sandusky himself.

The conservative group CAP, the Citizens Alliance for Pennsylvania, is setting its sights on another Republican they deem insufficiently conservative: Pa. Rep. Mike Fleck (R-Huntingdon).

For more than a half hour, Friday’s meeting of the Legislative Reapportionment Committee was diverted by members of Occupy Harrisburg, according to post on John Micek’s Capitol Ideas blog.

A judge’s decision to go easy on former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who is suspected of sexually abusing several minors during and after his tenure at Penn State, has brought Pennsylvania’s vague recusal rules into focus.

Here are some of the bills supported at a Tuesday press conference that would extend the statute of limitations on alleged child sexual abuse and increase mandatory reporting requirements.

In the wake of the sex abuse scandal at Penn State, lawmakers are pushing to make it a requirement to report the sexual abuse of a minor. They’re also aiming to increase the statute of limitations on sexual assault.