Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union is a step closer
to making its move from Harrisburg to Susquehanna Township after an initial setback.

Raymond James Financial Services Inc. yesterday announced it
has partnered with Lancaster County-based Fulton Financial Advisors to offer
brokerage services, according to Raymond James.

The number of representatives in Central
Pennsylvania for a Utah-based finance-and-technology company has
grown significantly over the last six months.

Kasual Computing Inc., a computer- and networking-services
firm based in Lower Allen Township,
Cumberland County, closed a deal May 29 to acquire
Capital Computer Consultants Inc.

It's been skewered by the editorial boards of the Wall
Street Journal and the New York Times. Booed by fiscal conservatives. Vetoed by
President George W. Bush.

Leasing Harrisburg's Capitol View Commerce
Center could be a tough
sell because the project hit a wall last month, commercial real estate agents
throughout the region said.

Dear Mr. Berko: What is your opinion of George Fontanills
and his course called Optionetics?

Last week's question: Do you support a gas-tax holiday for
the summer? Why or why not?

NO - 87 percent
YES - 13 percent

In Washington,
D.C., many ideas are being touted
to alleviate consumers' pain at the gas pump - from temporarily cutting the
federal gas tax to ending additions to the strategic petroleum reserve.

State Sen. John Wozniak (D-Cambria County)
plans to introduce legislation that would deliver $500 million to small cities
across the commonwealth over the next five years, his office announced
yesterday.

Mid-Atlantic Corporate Federal Credit Union announced a new
business unit that will help other credit unions deal with in-house insurance
and benefits issues.

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. disclosed plans to
close five midstate bank branches after its acquisition of Sterling Financial
Corp.

Some bank branches may be closing now that Sterling
Financial Corp. has been acquired by The PNC Financial Services Group Inc., but
customers will have access to other nearby locations, PNC spokesman Patrick McMahon said yesterday.

The partners who want to lease Harrisburg's parking garages made a forceful
case in a three-and-a-half-hour meeting with the City Council last night, but
the immediate decision makers were not sitting in front of them.

Bankruptcies, discplinary actions, mortgages, incorporations, liens