The House and Senate were in session this week, with both chambers either voting on or holding hearings on gun rights and mental health legislation. The House Judiciary Committee voted out a couple bills, but did not address the extreme risk protection order (ERPO) proposal. The House debated and narrowly passed a bill creating the […]
Archives for September 2019
Recreational Marijuana Listening Tour Report
Gov. Tom Wolf and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman report on the Recreational Marijuana Listening Tour Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.
PA Press Club with Sen. Katie Muth
PA Press Club with Sen. Katie Muth. Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.
Journalists Roundtable: September 19, 2019
House members were back in Harrisburg this week, and a number of press conferences and committee hearings made the news, ranging from charter schools, gun laws, economic development, redistricting and election laws, and Sunday hunting. Also, a state senator resigned this week after being arrested due to allegations he had child pornography on his cell […]
Sept. 23: Legislative Agenda
The House and Senate were in session this week and have already hit the ground running as Republicans and Democrats have held hearings and press conferences to discuss their fall priorities. To discuss the legislative agenda are Charlie Gerow, CEO of Quantum Communications; and Marc Stier, Director of the PA Budget and Policy Center.
“The Disaffected”
Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned commitments to both the Revolutionaries and the British. They strove to endure the war uninvolved and unscathed. They failed. In 1777, the war came […]
“Too Much For Human Endurance”
The bloodstains are gone, but the worn floorboards remain. The doctors, nurses, and patients who toiled and suffered and ached for home at the Army of the Potomac’s XI Corps hospital at the George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg have long since departed. Happily, though, their stories remain, and noted journalist and George Spangler Farm expert […]
Sept. 16: Charter Schools
Pennsylvania’s Charter School Law is now 22 years old, and Gov. Tom Wolf has called for legislators to take a look at that law and re-examine whether it needs to be updated. Acc. to the Philadelphia Inquirer, “almost 9 percent of students in the state — about 140,000 — are now charter-educated, to the tune […]
Sept. 17: PA House Agenda: LIVE at 7 pm
The House is in session on Sept. 17-19, and for eight weeks total this fall. To discuss the House agenda are: Rep. Seth Grove (R-York) and Rep. Patrick Harkins (D-Erie). Call-in with your questions or comments LIVE to 1-877 PA6-5001. The PCN Call-in Program airs Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 7 PM.
Sept. 14 at 2 PM: PA Supreme Court Session from Sept. 12
Recorded 9-12-19 in Philadelphia. Issues include: natural gas fracking mineral rights; higher education faculty background checks and whether it’s a collective bargaining issue or managerial prerogative; school bus video open records request under Right-to-Know Law; psychiatrist-patient privilege, the harmless error doctrine and what is exempt from disclosure under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act; […]