Continuing to advocate for issues in their respective districts as well as statewide, Representatives Joshua Kail (R-Beaver/Washington), Tim O’Neal (R-Washington), and Sheryl Delozier (R-Cumberland), were elected by their peers last week for leadership roles in the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus in Harrisburg.
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Pa. homeowners to benefit from new program
Senators Pat Browne, R-Lehigh County, and Nikil Saval, D-Philadelphia, joined local elected officials and members of the Allentown community on Friday to announce the publication of the Whole-Home Repairs program guidelines.
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Pa. Senate Democrats, Republicans elect legislative leaders
Pennsylvania’s Senate Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday elected their respective leadership teams for the 2023-24 legislative session.
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Pa. business, education leaders look forward to cooperation with Shapiro, Fetterman
Praise for the winners and optimistic glances to the future figured in the fallout from last week’s victories by Josh Shapiro in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race and John Fetterman for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
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House approves bill to pull state investments out of Russia, Belarus
Legislation that would divest Pennsylvania’s holdings from investments connected to the Russian government and its supporters has been approved by the House and now heads to the Senate for consideration.
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Gov. Wolf’s 2022-23 budget proposes $4.5 billion spending increase
In his final budget speech before the General Assembly on Tuesday, Gov. Tom Wolf looked back at how the state has recovered from the budget deficit it was in during his first budget address in 2015 and highlighted plans for a $43.7 billion budget that he says can leverage the state’s current surplus.
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Gov. Wolf announces $1.7 billion COVID recovery plan for Pennsylvania
Gov. Tom Wolf announced a plan on Wednesday to invest $1.7 billion in American Rescue Plan Act funds to help the state recover from the pandemic—a bid that critics say fails to put taxpayers first.
Read More »Governor Wolf renews disaster declaration as General Assembly receives new powers to dismantle it
Gov. Tom Wolf renewed the state’s 90-day Proclamation of Disaster Emergency on Thursday for the fifth time since the pandemic began last year.
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Pa. businesses take firm line on economic recovery in GOP survey
The biggest challenges for Pennsylvania businesses include continued declines in customer volume, financial concerns and limitations from Gov. Tom Wolf’s mitigation orders, according to a recent survey of 921 businesses.
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Senate package could provide assistance to struggling small businesses
Four Republican Pennsylvania senators plan to introduce a series of bills they say will provide financial and tax relief for the state’s small businesses.
Read More »Wolf: Ending Pa. disaster declaration “wouldn’t reopen a single business”
Pennsylvania’s businesses, workers and residents would lose a bevy of protections if the state’s disaster declaration were ended by a resolution passed by the state General Assembly, according to Gov. Tom Wolf.
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Can the GOP run on the environment? Former Gov. Tom Ridge thinks so.
A Harrisburg-based conservative group is working to convince Pennsylvania’s most conservative Republicans to support clean and renewable energy policies.
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Former Gov. Ridge asks Republicans to promote clean energy policies
Conservative legislators must remember their party’s legacy of conservation and the importance of promoting clean energy, former Republican Gov. Tom Ridge told lawmaker during a symposium on clean and renewable energy on Tuesday.
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