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HARRISBURG The status of Gov. Tom Corbett's lawsuit remains unknown after two hours of arguments Monday.

The pension debt confronting Pennsylvania's retirement systems for state and public school workers is not primarily a result of benefit changes which occurred in 2001, as the editorial states.

By Melissa Daniels | PA Independent HARRISBURG - A state lawmaker continues to raise red flags about a website redesign and management contract.

The legal battle between Governor Corbett and the NCAA will land in a court room for the first time today.

It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov.

Lawyers for the Corbett administration and the NCAA will be in a federal courtroom this afternoon to argue a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against Penn State sanctions.

It was graduation day Saturday at Millersville University. During the commencement ceremony, about ten students and faculty members turned their chairs around as the commencement speaker Gov.

A combination of events is focusing attention on whether Gov. Tom Corbett and lawmakers can perform the political hat trick of passing major legislation dealing with transportation spending, liquor store privatization and curbing public pension costs while passing the next state budget on time for the third year in a row.

The state Senate and House unanimously passed legislation to help develop and expand community-based health care clinics, according to Sen.

By Eric Boehm | PA Independent HARRISBURG - A new political nonprofit claims to be holding Gov.

State officials in no more than five weeks are expected to be done with a long-awaited audit of the region's job-training agency.

Tom Corbett got a cool reception when he addressed a central Pennsylvania university's graduating class.

We're in budget season, which means the city school district is experiencing yet another round of asking for money from local and state governments that have grown inured to the perpetual crisis, as common a sign of spring as azaleas.

Josh Shapiro, chairman of the Montgomery County commissioners and a rising Democratic star, will bypass 2014 races for governor and Congress already congested with ambitious pols and instead launch his own political action committee to try to influence campaigns and issues around the state.

It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov.

Seven of Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities -- under pressure from gun-rights advocates who believe that carrying firearms on a campus full of young people is a good idea -- quietly have started to allow guns to be carried in open spaces on their campuses.

Tom Corbett of playing a shell game with the state. But what game is the Pittsburgh advocacy group itself playing? It refuses to name its officers and directors.

It's hard to recall the last time York County has seen a state House general election with not just two, but three outstanding candidates.

Pennsylvania's Governor Tom Corbett wants to serve another term and he has roughly 535 days to explain to the 8,508,015 registered voters why he should be re-elected. So far he's not doing that great of a job.

Running a massive deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars, Philadelphia's school system is planning to eliminate all sports, extracurricular activities, counselors and libraries - beyond which, for schools eviscerated by austerity politics, there's not much left to lose.