Dominic Pileggi

Budget negotiations between legislative Republicans and the Corbett administration continued this morning, with the two sides trying to close the $500 million gap separating their respective budget proposals. Legislative negotiators said Gov. Tom...

Legislative Republicans are weighing a new budget proposal of about $27.4 billion from the Corbett administration that was presented during a negotiating session this morning. Neither side would discuss details but Gov. Tom Corbett did lay "out in more...

There's been no shortage of middle-aged and mostly white men spilling out the executive suite during budget negotiations this week. But as the clock ticks down to the June 30 deadline to pass a new spending, one set of mostly......

From Clara Ritger: A Chester County Republican says he wants to fix the state's pension system by switching current and future state and school employees from the current defined benefit system to a defined contribution plan similar to a 401(k).......

Legislative Republicans ... ... met behind closed doors for more than an hour this afternoon to continue evaluating the reported $27.4 billion budget offer that the Corbett administration made on Tuesday. "It's no different than any other year," House...

About The Only Headline ... ... to come out of this morning's budget negotiating session was House Majority Leader Mike Turzai's entirely unsurprising (though no less important) confirmation that a debate on state store privatization will gather dust in...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The moribund debate over whether to privatize Pennsylvania's state-owned liquor stores may just have gotten a new lease on life. Citing a confidential report by the state Inspector General's Office, the Inquirer...

Legislative authorization of a $1.65 billion tax credit for Shell Oil and other petrochemical producers is a Corbett administration "essential" as negotiations over the 2012-13 state budget enter their final days. "It is very clear that it is something...

Two of the Legislature's biggest advocates for special education reform are working to sell the Corbett administration and the GOP-controlled House on an amended version of their plan to change the way the state pays for special education. Language being....

Gov. Tom Corbett and legislative Republicans said Wednesday that they’d arrived at a “framework” for a $27.656 billion state budget for 2012-13 that adds money to some state programs that had originally been targeted for cuts. The...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Now we're hardly the type of blog who'd gratuitously start a class or generational war, but, man, do the Baby Boomers have a lot to answer for. Not only did they foist horrible Nora Ephron-penned......

With a simple Facebook status message, state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi ended a week of speculation that he'd run for Democrat Bob Casey's U.S. Senate seat. "After a great deal of careful consideration, I have decided not to enter......