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RocktheCapital’s Statement: Pennsylvania’s Public Integrity Commission
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 26, 2010 | 4:16 pm | 2 Comments
Statement
RocktheCapital is pleased to endorse the proposed legislation to create Pennsylvania’s Public Integrity Commission. We applaud Representatives Schroder and his co-sponsors Representatives Yudichak, Vereb, and DePasquale in their display of leadership and bipartisan cooperation to address an issue to… Read the rest
[...read more]Castille’s Family Court about-face
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 26, 2010 | 4:15 pm | 980 Comments
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
These days, Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille says he feels betrayed by his onetime lawyer in the Family Court project.
“If I was in the Marine Corps, the guy would be stripped of his
Natural-gas companies turn to Ridge to fuel drilling efforts
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 26, 2010 | 4:14 pm | 2 Comments
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Having already hired three former aides to Gov. Rendell, companies wanting to tap Pennsylvania’s vast natural-gas reserves have set their sights on one of the state’s best-known political figures: Tom Ridge.
The companies are looking
There’s a Battle Outside and It Is Still Ragin’
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 26, 2010 | 4:13 pm | 0 Comment
From the New York Times:
This country was rightly elated when it elected its first African-American president more than 20 months ago. That high was destined to abate, but we reached a new low last week. What does it
Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 22, 2010 | 4:11 pm | 67 Comments
The Campaign Contributions & Lobbying Expenditures of the Natural Gas Industry in Pennsylvania
By Alex Kaplan and James Browning
May 11, 2010
[...read more]Feds subpoena Mellow staffers
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 13, 2010 | 4:07 pm | 54 Comments
From the Scranton Times-Tribune:
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed more than a dozen staffers working for retiring state Sen. Robert Mellow as part of an ongoing probe into public corruption in Northeast Pennsylvania, sources said Monday.
About 15 staffers at
Reformers: No Change in Legislative Attitude
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 10, 2010 | 1:17 pm | 0 Comment
From WDUQNews:
Leading good government advocates say the state legislature has only given lip service to reform in the five years since its infamous pay raise vote.
It’s been five years since lawmakers voted to increase their own pay
Rock the Capital’s pay raise list
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 10, 2010 | 1:16 pm | 879 Comments
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Rock the Capital, led by Eric Epstein, is one of the citizens watchdog groups that have criticized 60 state legislators for not returning to the state treasury the four months of higher pay they received
We’ve Waited Long Enough
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 10, 2010 | 1:15 pm | 3 Comments
In the five years since the infamous pay raise, calls for structural government reform have reverberated throughout the Keystone State.
Whether the focus of those calls is term limits, the size of the state legislature, the way electoral districts are… Read the rest
[...read more]Groups highlight stalled reform of legislative pay
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 10, 2010 | 1:14 pm | 0 Comment
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
As the calendar today marks one of the most inglorious moments in the state Legislature — the much-criticized, later-rescinded pay raise of 2005 — watchdog groups say they’re not impressed with post-pay raise efforts to
