Ed Rendell News Archives

A Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority bus passes Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Sunday, Oct.

Pennsylvania made a promise to our children and we are keeping it. The promise is to work together so all children can be safe, healthy, eager to learn, and ready to succeed in school.

Associated Press HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission said Friday it was cooperating with a demand for documents by state prosecutors, but the subject of the investigation was not clear.

Small...expected to be put to death Dec. 16. A former Hanover man who killed a 17-year-old girl in a remote wooded area of West Manheim Township in 1981 could be put to death before Christmas.

Artist's rendering of the ArtsQuest Performing Arts Center earmarked for SteelStacks.

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Governor Edward G. Rendell today signed execution warrants for John Amos Small, 49, who sexually assaulted and murdered a woman in York County in 1981; and Antoine Ligons, 30, who murdered a pizza deliveryman in Philadelphia in 1996.

The event at the West Side Community Center appeared to lack coherence from the beginning, as operatives with furrowed brows tried to figure out how to get more people burrowed in,A while headliner Pennsylvania Gov.

The long-planned dredging of the Delaware River has gotten the go-ahead from the feds, despite objections from the State of Delaware.

Another heavy-hitting Democrat is going to bat for Governor Corzine. Former President Bill Clinton will join Corzine at a Tuesday evening rally in a Little Falls union hall, according to a news release from Democratic State Committee Chairman Joseph Cryan.

The Blue Dogs proved to be lap dogs. The Blue Dog Caucus, a group of fiscally conservative state House Democrats from Western Pennsylvania, at one point held the key to a no-tax-increase state budget.

Share + Oct 24, 2009 2:33 pm US/Eastern MARC LEVY, Associated Press Writer Even his adversaries acknowledge that he's aggressive.

On hand Thursday for the Republican banquet in Reynoldsville were Tonya Geist, prothonotary; John Serian, state committeeman; Tony Harper, party chairman; Sam Smith, state representative; James VanSteenberg, treasurer; Bernard Snyder, coroner; David Inzana, magisterial judge; Joe Scarnati, state senator and lieutenant governor; and Pete Winkler, ...

Share + Oct 22, 2009 5:33 pm US/Eastern RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH A study of 10,000 at-risk children in Pennsylvania has found that special education needs drop from an average of 18 percent to just 2 percent in kids that attend preschool.

Mark Cherpak, director of operational services for the Steel Valley School District, had hoped to use federal stimulus money designated for school districts in Pennsylvania to help balance his district's 2009-2010 budget.

A Pennsylvania audit of hundreds of millions of dollars in government technology contracts released Wednesday found poor record keeping, insufficient central oversight and an increased potential for a conflict of interest when it came time to pick the winning bids.

Gov. Ed Rendell endorsed Linda Thompson for Mayor of Harrisburg Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.

During a frank and candid interview with The Philadelphia Tribune editorial board, David F. Girard-diCarlo's passion for educating America's youth was obvious.

Earl tackles No. 127 on his karmic list by making amends for pilfering a police officer's badge.

A view of downtown Harrisburg looking north from on top of the letter T on the Fulton Bank sign, some 340 feet above the ground.

Ita s been said so many times before - the tough economic times will almost surely force states into at least considering whether or not to expand their gaming options for much-needed revenue, and that expansion could bring poker into new areas of the country.

A seemingly small but unresolved piece of the state budget has delayed millions of dollars in aid for state-supported colleges, museums, and hospitals.

Only 31 percent of Pennsylvania voters say Sen. Arlen Specter deserves to be elected to another term, according to a new poll.

With the Pennsylvania state budget passed after being more than 100 days overdue, local representatives are still putting in their two cents worth and talking about what can be done to prevent such a standoff in the future.

Some counties, social services providers and school districts that borrowed money to replace state subsidies held up by the 101-day budget impasse said Monday that they want the state to repay the interest.They said repayment is a matter of basic fairness, and they plan to bring the issue up this week with Gov.

It took 101 days to pass a state budget, longer than the Battle of the Bulge and more time than it took the Marines to capture Iwo Jima during World War II.

Gov. Ed Rendell signed a $27.8 billion state budget Friday night, bringing an end to one of Harrisburg's hardest-fought political battles in decades.

After 101 days of delay, the governor and the majority leaders -- Democrats in the Pennsylvania House, Republicans in the Senate -- came to an agreement.

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Governor Edward G. Rendell signed legislation today to enact a $27.799 billion state General Fund budget for 2009-10 that increases education funding while reducing overall spending.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed the key pieces of legislation necessary to end a 101-day state budget stalemate, the longest in the nation this year.

Warren Public Library is facing another round of crippling funding cuts. On Thursday, Warren Public Library Director Patty Sherbondy received an email from Glenn Miller, executive director of the Pennsylvania Library Association, in which he confidently predicted the state legislature will finally end the state's budget impasse in the next several ...

Gov. Ed Rendell says a deal on Pennsylvania's state budget is "close," and he's urging top lawmakers to take a deep breath and meet with him about it.

For a western Pennsylvania Democrat coming to Philly to start a campaign for governor, Dan Onorato showed some local clout yesterday.

Rendell claims deal close Fresh efforts to resolve Pennsylvaniaa s budget impasse generated a flurry of activity in the state Capitol on Monday, but a deal continued to elude the statea s policymakers, nearly 100 days into the current fiscal year.

On Day 94 of the nation's longest state budget impasse, Democrats who control the state House tore up key compromises their leaders had struck two weeks earlier and set the stage for yet another round of negotiations on a final spending plan.

Governor Rendell says "Help Me Kill the Office of Public Benefit" Shirley Ybarra October 4, 2009, 12:09am Cezary Podkul reports here about Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell's speech at an Infrastructure Investor Conference last Thursday in New York City .

Gov. Ed Rendell says a House Democratic tax plan is making it more difficult to resolve Pennsylvania's state budget impasse, now entering its fourth month.

Pennsylvaniaa s Democrat-controlled House may vote today on a $1.2 billion tax package that may renew a divide with the Senate and derail a $28 billion budget compromise announced by Governor Ed Rendell and legislative leaders last month.

House Democrats in the Pennsylvania Legislature came up with a new tax proposal Thursday, backpedaling from the handshake state budget agreement their leaders made nearly two weeks ago.

From left, Lt. Gov. Joseph B. Scarnati, Sen. Dominic F. Pileggi, Sen. Jake Corman, Gov.