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- Minor Leagues: 3-run home run by Bohn lifts IronPigs to win
- NORFOLK, Va. - T.J. Bohn slammed a three-run homer last night to power the Lehigh Valley IronPigs to a 7-1 International League victory over the Norfolk Tides. Les Walrond allowed five-hits and an unearned run in eight innings. Reliever Gary Knotts pitched a scoreless ninth. Harrisburg 9, Reading 6 HARRISBURG...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- Letters: One Reader's View
- Confidence in Harrisburg has been shaken once again with the recent indictment of the former chief of staff to House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese and his deputy leader, along with 10 Democratic caucus staff members. These indictments allege that taxpayer dollars were used to run campaigns, including out of the...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- Fumo says goodbye to colleagues
- HARRISBURG - Every man needs a little madness in life, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. With those words, culled from the exuberant character in the book-turned-movie Zorba the Greek, an emotional State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo bid farewell to his colleagues in the Senate...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- Harder to hide lobbyists' largesse
- HARRISBURG - One of Pennsylvania's top lobbying firms treated Delaware County Rep. Ron Raymond to its luxury suite to watch minor-league hockey: $1,230. An international packaging conglomerate provided $2,000 in golf balls for outings thrown by Philadelphia Reps. John Perzel and George Kenney. Rep. Camille "Bud" George of Clearfield County...
- Research articles 2008-06-15
- Editorial: Pennsylvania's Budget
- Now that May has turned to June, Republican leaders in Harrisburg are warning that they might not be able to complete the state budget on time. This phenomenon is seasonal. Each spring, the robins return to Pennsylvania. Each June, state GOP leaders begin to chirp that Gov. Rendell has given...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- Solar plant to go up at Philadelphia Navy Yard
- A big solar-energy project at the Philadelphia Navy Yard was offered yesterday as the sort of innovation envisioned in a Rendell administration energy bill that has languished for months in a Senate committee in Harrisburg. The $11 million project would populate a desolate portion of the Navy Yard with a...
- Research articles 2008-04-30
- Harrisburg lineman selects Penn State
- Penn State received the 15th commitment for its 2008 recruiting class when Brandon Ware, a 6-foot-5, 345-pound defensive tackle from Harrisburg, gave the Nittany Lions his pledge Sunday. Ware was recruited by Penn State defensive line coach Larry Johnson and took his official visit to State College last weekend. He...
- Research articles 2008-01-29
- Records law is last to falter
- HARRISBURG - With more than 50 new lawmakers in the House and Senate vowing to bring change to the state Capitol, there was hope that 2007 would be the "Year of Reform": greater access to open records, tougher campaign-finance laws, and, one day, perhaps even a smaller legislature. Instead, lawmakers...
- Research articles 2007-12-12
- Developers sue Harrisburg over installation of utilities
- Two developers said they are out nearly $1 million after they built homes at the city of Harrisburg's request, but the city hasn't installed the water and sewer lines. Tom Ford and Charles Dunham, who own Ford/Dunham Subdivision, are suing the city of Harrisburg, the mayor and the city...
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- Public Comments Sought on Lobbying Disclosure
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Leslie Amoros or Cathy Ennis, both of Pennsylvania Department of State, +1-717-783-1621 HARRISBURG, Pa., July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members of the public will have the chance to comment on draft regulations for the Lobbying Disclosure Act (Act 134 of 2006). A public meeting on the proposal will...
- Research articles 2007-07-23
- Editorial | Shrinking Harrisburg
- A move in the Pennsylvania Senate to trim the size of the legislature is like wielding an ax when a diet would do the job.A bill approved by a Senate panel would shrink the General Assembly from 253 members to 201. The House would go from 203 lawmakers to 161;...
- Research articles 2007-05-23
- Toward a smaller Harrisburg
- HARRISBURG - In a vote some are calling historic, a state Senate panel yesterday approved a bill to trim the size of the General Assembly despite some pointed misgivings."There is a general feeling that the size is too large. The question is what size do we settle on?" said Sen....
- Research articles 2007-05-09
- Ethics panel limits Conti's interactions
- HARRISBURG - In his official capacity as CEO of the state Liquor Control Board, Joe Conti cannot talk business with members of the Senate until the end of November - his one-year anniversary of leaving the upper chamber, according to an opinion yesterday by the state Ethics Commission.But Conti, a...
- Research articles 2007-03-29
- Harrisburg digging its way out of the muck
- AND NOW AN UPDATE on my 2007 Race to Reform, a contest between the state House and Senate to see which is quicker to attack the greed and clandestine ways so deeply ingrained in the Legislature. As month three of the race opens, the Senate leads, but the House...
- Research articles 2007-03-05
- Capital feeling winds of change
- One in an occasional series. HARRISBURG - For a decade, a driver shuttled Rep. Bill DeWeese back and forth from his legislative district in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania to his parking spot by the Capitol. The taxpayers paid for the chauffeur. Last month, DeWeese got behind the...
- Research articles 2007-03-04
- Stipulations slow search for courthouse site
- DAUPHIN COUNTY The U.S. General Services Administration is in its third year of searching for a site to build a new federal courthouse in Harrisburg. Normally, the selection process doesn't take this long in the MidAtlantic region. But the challenges that Harrisburg presents have made this the longest...
- Research articles 2007-03-02
- Editorial | Vince Fumo's Harrisburg
- The muted reaction in Harrisburg over the indictment of State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo says a lot about what the market is willing to bear in the state capital. Federal prosecutors have charged Fumo (D., Phila.) with defrauding state government and a nonprofit he founded out of nearly $2...
- Research articles 2007-02-11
- Real change this time, say lawmakers
- It's a six-letter word that's becoming the new religion for politicians in Harrisburg: reform. As in government reform. Just about everyone in the Capitol is talking these days about how government in Harrisburg can become simpler. More open. And more accessible to the public. And though they may not agree...
- Research articles 2006-11-26
- DHS moves swiftly on review
- In what he calls an effort to "begin to reestablish the credibility of this agency," Philadelphia's new child welfare commissioner has launched a plan to step up the monitoring of millions of dollars in contracts and revisit each child under the city's care. Acting Department of Human Services Commissioner Arthur...
- Research articles 2006-11-12
- Special interest protectionism and the antebellum woolen textile industry: a contemporary issue in a historical context
- I Introduction IN THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, Adam Smith correctly noted that "[p]eople of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices ... though the law cannot hinder...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
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