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Corbett's asset test finds little abuse in $2.6 billion food stamp program
It's the question Kathryn Hoffman hates to ask, especially of the elderly people who come into her office looking for help. Do you have a burial plot? How much is it worth? But that question is one of many Hoffman must ask as a food stamp outreach...
Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Politics, Medicaid, Government, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Liquor privatization vote moves step closer in House
Capitol IdeasYo! Can you hear the collective sigh of relief? Lawmakers and reporters won't be stuck in the Capitol for that long today. In a surprise move Wednesday, Democrats withdrew all but one of the 106 amendments they had introduced as...... -
One more Democratic challenger
Capitol IdeasYo! The field of Democratic gubernatorial challengers eager to run against Republican incumbent Tom Corbett is growing. After months of speculation, Tom Wolf, a York businessman and former secretary of the Department of Revenue, has officially entered the... -
New full-time boss at the Department of Health
Capitol IdeasYo! Pennsylvania has a new secretary at the Health Department. Gov. Tom Corbett promoted Michael Wolf to the top post on Friday. Wolf (that's him to the left) had been serving as “acting secretary” after the October resignation of his...... -
Hola, Senor Corbett
Capitol IdeasYo! Gov. Tom Corbett left on a three-day trade mission to South America on Saturday. It’s the perfect place to go this time of year because it’s probably the only place in the western hemisphere where he won’t bump into...... -
'Tom Corbett Liquor Tax'?
Capitol IdeasYo! The latest liquor amendment count is in as of 1 p.m. Lawmakers have added 124 amendments to the already amended House Bill 790, the liquor privatization bill, backed by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett and House Majority Leader Mike Turzai,...... -
PA House Democrats talk transportation at America on Wheels Museum
The Road Warrior w/Dan HartzellThe impressive America on Wheels Museum just off Hamilton Street along the Lehigh River in Allentown served as an appropriate site for a meeting of the Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee hearing on transportation funding -- or the lack thereof... -
Liquor fight heating up
Capitol IdeasYo! Who needs a stiff drink? You all will be the time Thursday ends. Politics and posturing started heating up Tuesday, a day after a legislative committee approved a bill that ending Pennsylvania’s 80-year-old monopoly on the sale of wine...... -
Mike Turzai’s Jim Mora moment
Capitol IdeasYo! Ever see those Coors Light commercials that use old clips of NFL coaches like Jim Mora and Herm Edwards giving a ranting answer to a reporter's question. Pretty funny. Well, House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, had a Mora...... -
'Fracking' brings prosperity, problems to Pennsylvania
Times are good these days at the Linde Corp., where despite a sluggish economy nationally, the company is on a hiring binge. The construction company, based near Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, has seen its workforce nearly triple over the...
Tags: University of Pennsylvania, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Politics, Government, Conservation
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Big liquor hearing
Capitol IdeasUnion members, some with tears in their eyes, have formed a outside a legislative hearing room where House Liquor Control Committee will consider Gov. Tom Corbett’s plan to sell state liquor stores and use proceeds to find $1 billion education...... -
Poll: Allentown mayor and three other Dems could beat Corbett
Capitol IdeasYo! Gov. Tom Corbett's approval ratings are so low, he'd lose to four of eight possible Democratic challengers and just barely survive a race agianst the other potential candidates, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll. One of those would-...
Apr 27, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 20, 2013
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Mar 20, 2013
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Feb 28, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
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Mar 6, 2013
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Mar 9, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 18, 2013
| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 13, 2013
| Allentown Morning Call
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