Attacking Gov. Mark Dayton for "super-sizing" government, former Speaker of the House Kurt Zellers said Sunday he will challenge the incumbent Democrat in next year's election.
Voters in the King-Pierce County border town of Pacific will decide whether to retain Cy Sun, an 83-year-old Korean War veteran who took office as a write-in candidate last year and immediately turned everything upside down.
No state this year repealed its renewable energy requirement, lowered its percentage mandate or extended utilities’ deadlines for meeting it, though several lobby groups pushed state legislatures to repeal them.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who urged senators to vote on Medicaid expansion. Instead, the legislature adjourned for two months, likely dooming the possibility of adding 320,000 residents to the program in 2014.
Gov. Corbett's administration is attempting to get new funding for Philly schools by convincing the federal government to let the state off the hook for a $108 million debt, according to city, state and federal sources.
In a sharp rebuke of Gov. Jerry Brown, a panel of three Federal judges said the state must take immediate steps to release inmates toward compliance with their 2009 order that the prison population be reduced to 137.5 percent of capacity.
As college students across the country are watch anxiously to see if Congress will prevent an interest rate hike on federal student loans on July 1, several states are looking at ways to ease the financial burden of college costs.
Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R., Delaware) told reporters the chamber was expected to vote on a bill this week that picks up only a small piece of Corbett's proposal: moving all new employees into 401(k)-style plans.
