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HARRISBURG — Attorney General Tom Corbett has been in the news a lot lately. That’s mostly because of charges he announced two weeks ago against a dozen current and former House Democratic lawmakers and staffers.
But the saga over alleged misuse of taxpayer money, often called “Bonusgate,” isn’t the only battle that Mr. Corbett, a Shaler resident, is waging: He also faces a tough re-election battle this November.
HARRISBURG — It is “inconceivable” that House Majority Leader H. William DeWeese wasn’t aware of bonuses paid to state employees for work on Democratic campaigns, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader said at a news conference yesterday.
HARRISBURG — State Treasurer Robin L. Wiessmann yesterday showed off a new Web site that features a database of government contracts the public can access.
She said the state’s new right-to-know law required creation of the database, known as the Pennsylvania Contracts e-Library.
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.”
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