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Pennsylvania’s House and Senate Appropriations Committees are holding a series of hearings from mid-February to late April as part of the process to establish the next state budget. Lawmakers from both parties will have opportunities to talk to department heads and key officials from across nearly all aspects of state government as they prepare a spending plan for the fiscal year that runs from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. In May and June, Gov. Tom Wolf and legislative leaders will attempt to negotiate a budget plan behind closed doors. If t...
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh, who also served as U.S. Attorney General in the late 1980s and early 1990s, died Thursday at age 88. The cause of Thornburgh's death had not been released as of late Thursday afternoon. A former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Thornburg ran for governor in 1978 as a Republican, defeating Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty on an anti-corruption platform. He ran again in 1982 and won a second term by defeating U.S. Rep. Allan Ertel....
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, certified the results of the Nov. 3 election, despite ongoing legal action by the campaign of President Donald Trump, likely increasing the level of difficulty for the president’s long-shot bid to overturn presumed President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state. Monday was the deadline for Pennsylvania’s counties to each certify their results, and Boockvar, the state’s top elections official, opted to follow through with her own required stamp of approval the next day. Pa....
