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HARRISBURG — WTF.
Three little letters. On a license plate. They didn’t mean anything to 60-year-old Mary Ann Hardee, a North Carolina resident.
But then her tech-savvy grandchildren, who were LOL (Laughing Out Loud), clued her in: These days, the WTF on her license plate means “What The (expletive)” in text messages and online lingo.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania State Police have decided to sell five of their seven single-engine airplanes.
The public is eligible to purchase the Cessna 182 planes, which cost anywhere from $86,000 to $188,000, depending on their age. The planes have four seats, with an option for two child seats to be added in the baggage area.
HARRISBURG — State Sen. Bob Regola, R-Hempfield, doesn’t think the state “should profit from someone’s death.”
So he’s introduced a bill to repeal the state’s estate tax — also known as the inheritance tax — and also known, by its critics, as the “death tax.”
HARRISBURG — In the midst of the growing Bonusgate scandal, a state senator has announced a petition drive to force a special legislative session on ethics reform.
“Pennsylvania, we have a problem,” said Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin. “It is a problem of arrogance, greed and corruption, and a system that encourages, protects and rewards all three.”
HARRISBURG — At a meeting in Philadelphia today, Gov. Ed Rendell became the new chairman of the National Governors Association, an organization that lobbies the federal government on behalf of states.
Mr. Rendell, who takes the helm of the 100-year-old group from Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, said he’ll focus on getting more federal funding for road construction, bridge repair and sewer and water projects in states.
HARRISBURG (July 10) – Agricultural and environmental organizations are expressing mixed reactions to the state’s proposed $1.2 billion in water and sewer initiatives signed into law last Friday.
John Brosius, deputy director of the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association, said: “The estimate for [the] water and sewer infrastructure need in Pennsylvania is $20 billion, so we’re talking the infusion of $1.2 billion into a $20 billion problem,” he said. “But I think this is a very good beginning to help recognize and fund some of those infrastructure projects.”
Brosius and others say the measures contain good programs, but constitute only a first step in improving the state’s environmental infrastructure.
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