Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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PA Independent: A nonprofit running ads attacking Gov. Corbett received at least $180,000 last year from a powerful national labor union.
Pa. Independent: An audit of the state liquor control board reveals that the state agency responsible for selling and regulating the consumption of wine and liquor overstated its assets by more than $1 million during the past fiscal year.
Josh Shapiro, chairman of the Montgomery County commissioners and a rising Democratic star, will bypass 2014 races for governor and Congress already congested with ambitious pols and instead launch his own political action committee to try to influence campaigns and issues around the state.
Gov. Tom Corbett got a cool reception when he addressed a central Pennsylvania university's graduating class.
Clout: There's no shortage of potential candidates being floated for the 2015 race for mayor. The latest name: city Managing Director Richard Negrin.
HERSHEY, Pa. - There was no military honor guard. No flag-draped casket. No politicians pontificating. Instead, the life of Pennsylvania's 36th governor, George M. Leader, was celebrated Thursday with family memories, a haunting rendition of "We Shall Overcome," and lines of his own poetry - as he had scripted his own funeral, years ago.
Gov. Corbett and senior agricultural officials from Chile gathered at Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia on Tuesday to mark what they say is a growing Chilean and South American fruit trade to Philadelphia.
Kenyatta Johnson: It's an asinine assumption with little basis in fact, and it clearly shows how out of touch the governor is with the people of Pennsylvania who are struggling because they cannot find gainful employment.
Gov. Corbett will keep Ron Tomalis as a special advisor on higher education, at the same pay, while hiring a suburban Harrisburg school superintendent as Education Secretary.
HARRISBURG — A simple six-pack of beer is becoming a focal point of the most substantive legislative debate on Pennsylvania alcohol laws since...
PA Independent: A nonprofit running ads attacking Gov. Corbett received at least $180,000 last year from a powerful national labor union.
Can an age issue and past controversies undue the state's chief justice?
Josh Shapiro, chairman of the Montgomery County commissioners and a rising Democratic star, will bypass 2014 races for governor and Congress already congested with ambitious pols and instead launch his own political action committee to try to influence campaigns and issues around the state.
Gov. Tom Corbett got a cool reception when he addressed a central Pennsylvania university's graduating class.
Clout: There's no shortage of potential candidates being floated for the 2015 race for mayor. The latest name: city Managing Director Richard Negrin.
One Purple Heart recipient paid 400 percent interest
Seven years after Congress banned payday-loan companies from charging exorbitant interest rates to service members, many of the nation's military bases are surrounded by storefront lenders who charge high annual percentage rates, sometimes exceeding 400 percent.
The Street: Of the 41 highly paid state university coaches, the majority - 27 - coach football. Thirteen are basketball coaches; and there is just one hockey coach.
John Baer: I've got an idea. I'm calling it "The One-Thing Rule." It works like this: Every year, our Legislature focuses on only one thing.
PhillyDeals: How do you blame a city for lying to taxpayers and bond buyers about its sad financial shape - without also blaming its mayor, or its finance officers, or any of the paid lawyers, bankers, and advisers who helped tell the lies?
Pa. Independent: An audit of the state liquor control board reveals that the state agency responsible for selling and regulating the consumption of wine and liquor overstated its assets by more than $1 million during the past fiscal year.