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4% Pay Cuts for State Workers

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.

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CBS Pittsburgh: Pa. Lawmakers Explore Mileage Tax

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.

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Meehan Volunteer Pleads Guilty to Electoral Fraud

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.

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A Look at SB1

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.

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DePasquale Moves Toward Auditor General Bid

State Representative Eugene DePasquale (D-York) today announced that he is exploring a candidacy for Auditor General in 2012, an office that matches his record and reputation for scrupulous spending in the State House.

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Corbett Defends Use of Reporter Dungeon

Responding to criticism in recent days that his administration has been inaccessible to reporters, Governor Corbett was particularly adamant in his defense of the reporter ‘dungeon,’ the maximum security detention facility where journalists are sent when they publish or say incorrect or unflattering things.

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Redistricting Map to Be Drawn By Experts

To reflect the “practicable” district design prescribed in the Constitution, PA lawmakers will instead bring in Mr. Watson’s second grade class to try and stop voter-hungry partisan lawmakers. The team, who recently learned basic shapes, will be led by stand-out geometry student Timmy Reynolds.

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