Two weeks after the governor’s Transportation Funding Advisory Commission voted on its package of funding and modernization recommendations, the final report is about to be delivered to Governor Tom Corbett. Phased in over five years, the recommendations are designed to provide an annual $2.5-billion dollar shot in the arm for transportation funding in the Keystone […]
5,000 amateur athletes have descended on the Hershey-Harrisburg region or the 30th annual Keystone State Games. This is the third time they’ve welcomed athletes from all 67-counties. “We are an Olympic-style sports festival. We are Pennsylvania’s largest annual sports festival. From where we started in 1981, we’ve had over 300,000 participants,” says James Costello, director […]
Between low prices and low interest rates, you would expect home buyer satisfaction to be high. That’s generally true – but it’s not as high as it was in last year’s JD Power and Associates survey. “There are still some challenges out there for the buyer. Namely they have to get funds, they have to […]
House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) was the only testifier on the Liquor Control Committee’s agenda Thursday, but Chairman John Taylor (R-Philadelphia) stressed that this hearing was the first of many. “The goal of Chairman Santoni and I is to get the information on the table, and have everybody have the opportunity to have their […]
After barely a month on display at The Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, Mummies of the World – The Exhibition has drawn visitors from all 50-states and 20-countries. “Truly the statistics are astounding,” says Troy Collins, senior vice president of programs marketing and development at The Franklin Institute. He says it’s a testament to both the […]
A UnitedHealth Group / Harris Interactive survey, of 1,000 doctors and 2,000 consumers, finds that rural Americans tend to be older, poorer and sicker than their urban counterparts. “They tend to be more reliant on programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and they have more chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease,” says Dr. […]
With one week to go before America’s August 2nd debt ceiling deadline, Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) is drumming up support for a fallback plan. At a Capitol Hill news conference, Toomey introduced the Full Faith and Credit of the United States and Protecting America’s Soldiers and Seniors Act. “What our bill would do is it […]
A state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would add some teeth to the law for restitution in driving-related cases. Once court costs and state fines on a driver related offense have been paid, a driver’s license can’t be suspended according to state Representative Keith Gillespie. He wants to allow the courts to be able […]
It’s been three years of discussion and debate, but there’s been no comprehensive action on Marcellus Shale issues in Harrisburg. Now with a series of consensus recommendations from the governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in hand, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) is calling for a special session this fall. “We feel that there is now […]
It’s a wide-open field, according to Kiron Skinner, professor of international relations at Carnegie Mellon University. “We haven’t seen a contest quite like this in a very long time. Usually we have a sense of the frontrunners very early on in the process. We do not, right now, have that sense,” says Skinner, who spoke […]