Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Taxes? Rainy Day Fund? Education hearing talks both The Post-Gazette reports, “The prospect of having to generate billions of dollars in new education funding had Pennsylvania lawmakers talking Wednesday…
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Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Basic Education Funding Commission to begin hearings The Basic Education Funding Commission will hold its first hearing in its statewide tour at 10:00 a.m. this morning in Allentown. The…
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Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Pa. removes employee email public database Spotlight PA reports that back in May, Pennsylvania officials “removed a searchable, online database of state employee emails, narrowing the ways the public…
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Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Pa. Senate advances budget implementation bills Yesterday, the state Senate advanced two separate budget implementation bills, or “code” bills. One addresses so-called “non-controversial” items, such as funding for community…