Among the millions of Americans watching Friday’s first presidential debate will be 2,000 with cell phone or computer mouse in hand.
Those viewers are part of a new system that embraces text messages and Web questions as a way of polling voters on the fly. Traditional polls are conducted by telephone interviews.
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, Delaware County | Joe Biden came out swinging here Tuesday, blasting Republican presidential nominee John McCain for being “profoundly out of touch” with a middle class increasingly under siege.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee accused McCain of abandoning his maverick streak in favor of parroting the Bush administration line on issues ranging from the economy to health care and the Iraq war.
After years of debate, Pennsylvania will establish new standards for assisted-living centers next year, but just how strong those rules will be is an open question.
Two opposing forces – consumer groups and the assisted-living industry – are wrangling over details such as staff training, room sizes and wheelchair accessibility in hopes of swaying state regulators.
HARRISBURG – Federal highway regulators on Thursday shot down Pennsylvania‘s application to turn Interstate 80 into a toll road, dealing a serious blow to the state’s efforts to raise billions of dollars for badly needed highway repairs and cash-strapped mass transit agencies.
After months of review, officials at the Federal Highway Administration rejected the state’s application to convert the 310-mile highway into a toll road because it doesn’t meet the technical requirements of a federal pilot program authorizing such tolls.
LANCASTER | Seventy-five hundred people crammed into a gymnasium on the campus of Franklin & Marshall College today to get an up-close look at Palin and GOP presidential nominee John McCain.
The speeches, first from Palin and then McCain, were similar to others the duo has given in the week since the Republican convention.
(Photo courtesy Don Fisher/Morning Call)
HARRISBURG – Imagine, for a fee, being able to bypass traffic on the Schuylkill Expressway at rush hour and avoid the migraine that comes with it. Some state lawmakers are working to implement the concept in Pennsylvania, and they say it is not as far-fetched as it might seem.
HARRISBURG – The Democratic nominee for state attorney general has criticized incumbent Tom Corbett for spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on public service announcements in the Philadelphia region.
The spots, which have aired on radio stations over the last two summers at a cost of about $625,000, take aim at illegal gun purchases.
But John Morganelli, the Northampton County district attorney, says they are thinly veiled campaign ads for Corbett, a Republican.
HARRISBURG — The director of the new state Office of Open Records is criticizing parts of the law that created her department.
Terry Mutchler, a former Associated Press reporter overseeing the office that will handle appeals under the Right to Know Law, said she does not support sections of the law that set lower standards of openness for the Legislature than for other government agencies.
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