So I can’t sleep and roll out of bed at 2:30 a.m. and happen to flip on PCN (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it) and there’s the House-Senate conference committee. I watch a half hour. And I come to the conclusion that Pennsylvania is no closer to having a budget that it was […]

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Let’s ask state Rep. Robert E. Belfanti Jr., who returned to the House floor for the first time this week since being diagnosed with acute pneumonia in February. The Northumberland County Democrat, at one point, had slipped into a coma for a week and was reportedly near death. On his first day back, Wednesday, Belfanti […]

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Came across this little nugget, an October story from The Associated Press, in researching previous state budget votes (emphasis is mine):
The deteriorating economy and rising costs for such big-ticket items as health care and prisons is leading the state government on a path to a massive deficit that will require a tax increase to erase, […]

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