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October 23, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

With 15 days until the presidential election, Republican lawmakers in the battleground state of Pennsylvania showed no sign Oct. 19 that they were ready to pass legislation authorizing counties to process mail-in ballots before Election Day, which is seen as crucial to producing a prompt election result.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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February 14, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania is launching the website where voters for the first time can request the newly legalized mail-in ballots ahead of the state's April 28 primary election, officials said Tuesday.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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February 07, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is taking aim at student debt and aging public school buildings while continuing a charge to boost public schools and early-childhood education in a budget proposal rolled out Feb. 4.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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December 13, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania's independently elected fiscal watchdog said Dec. 11 that his staff was repeatedly refused a tour of a Berks County facility that is one of three family detention centers in the United States that hold children and parents who are seeking asylum or entered the country illegally.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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November 29, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania state lawmakers, judges and top executive branch officials will collect another annual salary increase in 2020, with the governor's salary passing $200,000 and rank-and-file lawmakers' base salaries passing $90,000.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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November 22, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a news conference in his Capitol office, Pennsylvania Sen. John Yudichak, I-Luzerne, said that he had found a growing disconnect with an increasingly liberal Democratic caucus, and that some issues that are important to him will find a better home in the Republican caucus.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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September 20, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Mike Folmer, R-Lebanon, was charged Sept. 17 by the state Attorney General's Office after agents confronted him, saying they acted on a tip from an online social media provider that a user had uploaded an image of suspected child pornography on its service.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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June 28, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Senate devolved into partisan shouting, name-calling and bare-knuckled procedural tactics June 26 over a bill to end a decades-old program that offers $200 a month to people deemed unable to work.

By Marc Levy. The Associated Press .

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February 08, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Gov. Tom Wolf asked the General Assembly on Feb. 5 for hundreds of millions of dollars more for schools in his annual budget address, as well as a sprinkling of money for programs to improve worker training and aid the agricultural sector.

By Mark Scolforo and Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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