HARRISBURG, June 16 – The Pennsylvania House of Representatives today passed a comprehensive pension reform bill that tempers the dramatic spike in pension costs faced by the state and school districts and creates new rules for future employees in an…

State Rep. David Levdansky (D- Allegheny)

Pennsylvania’s state park and forest system is the envy of the nation, built by visionaries like Maurice Goddard, Joseph Rothrock and Gifford Pinchot, who witnessed the devastation of widespread deforestation and the ravages of…

HARRISBURG – Reps. Sandra Major (R-Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming) and Mike Peifer (R-Monroe/Pike/Wayne) last week announced a grant for $29,444 from the Department of Environmental Protection for the Wayne County Recycling Center. “Recycling has become a very large and important part…

HARRISBURG, May 5 – A bill supported by state Rep. John Siptroth, D-Monroe/Pike, that would put a three-year moratorium on leasing additional state forestland for natural gas drilling passed the House of Representatives Tuesday. “It’s time to take a time…

HARRISBURG, May 5 – The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation supported by state Rep. John Siptroth, D-Monroe/Pike, that would expand small games of chance for nonprofit civic organizations.

House Bill 169 would change Pennsylvania’s small games of…

HARRISBURG, May 4 – House Democratic leaders said today’s opening of the Special Session on Transportation and Governor Ed Rendell’s address helped to lay the groundwork for substantive policy discussions aimed at solving the Commonwealth’s transportation crisis – a crisis…

In our first Legislative Roundup since going all-online, we will add the responses from our elected officials as soon as they submit them.

This month’s question is: 

How are you working to help small business owners rebound?

Senator…