Pennsylvania’s capital, Harrisburg, is fighting for its legal right to declare bankruptcy as state lawmakers try to finalize a bill that would make doing so illegal and strip much of the city’s power to self-govern.
After cutting roughly $900 million in direct funding to K-12 education several weeks ago, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania told reporters Tuesday school districts have themselves to blame. But an education professor from the University of Rutgers begs to differ, mining past the policy minutiae to arrive with hard More…
A Republican state senator in Pennsylvania has proposed a bill that would put the state capital under the control of a three-member “management board” whose role would be to sell off public assets to shore up the city’s large debt.
Sen. Jeffrey Piccola proposed the legislation after Harrisburg officials balked More…
When former Sen. Chuck Hagel reached across the aisle last month to endorse Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) for the Senate last month, Sestak gladly accepted the honor as a sign of his moderate politics and cross-party appeal. To a certain group of conservative Jews, however, it was further proof More…
On a call with reporters this afternoon, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) and Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colo.) urged their Republican colleagues to vote for a $26.1 billion state-aid package.
So are Democratic leaders afraid of the National Rifle Association or not? According to Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D), they aren’t. They act like they are. But they really aren’t.
From Rendell’s interview with Time’s Mark Halperin today on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”:
They’re not afraid of the NRA. The
Following up on Matt’s nice post about the states tapping Obama for help with enormous budget shortfalls…
Few are saying it out loud, but the issue has a ring of class distinction surrounding it. That is, the White House has been quick to secure hundreds of billions of dollars More…
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