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Rendell's budget boosts spending and broadens taxes
HARRISBURG - Gov. Rendell yesterday unveiled a $29 billion state budget for fiscal 2010-11, appealing to the bipartisan spirit of past achievements to help him continue to steer Pennsylvania out of fiscal strain.
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TRENTON - A key Republican lawmaker says he expects school-aid cuts when Gov. Christie lays out his budget plans tomorrow.
Robert J. Mellow will retire from Pa. Senate
HARRISBURG - Robert J. Mellow, the state Senate's Democratic leader and longest-sitting current member, announced yesterday that he would not seek another four-year term, ending a legislative career that has spanned four decades.
Veon jury hears details of a legislative love life
E-mails by former aide Mike Manzo were said to show contradictions in earlier testimony.
HARRISBURG - The intimate details of the sex life of a former legislative aide became fodder for the jury in a public corruption trial yesterday.
Rendell plan widens sales tax
HARRISBURG - Tampons and Tootsie Rolls. Caskets and calculus books. Dry cleaning, daiquiris, and Dentyne. If Gov. Rendell gets his way, you will have to pay the state sales tax on those items and dozens of others that for years have been sold tax-free.
Again, Rendell budget raises education spending
Saying that increasing education funding has been "the most important" thing he has done as governor, Gov. Rendell called in his budget address yesterday for an increase of $355 million in the state's main subsidy for public schools.
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