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As the result of a historic agreement between the New York Public Library and the State of Pennsylvania, the National Constitution Center will exhibit one of the original copies of the Bill of Rights that President George Washington dispatched to the states in 1789 for ratification.

Gov. Tom Corbett is asking state education officials to clarify that a set of proposed academic achievement standards for Pennsylvania public school students are not uniform national standards.

Gov. Tom Corbett has asked state education officials to clarify that a set of proposed academic achievement standards for Pennsylvania public school students are not uniform national standards, a step a spokesman said Tuesday is designed to respond to criticism of the proposal.

Carlisle Construction Materials plans to build a new 72,500 square-foot facility where it will produce a roofing product known as thermoplastic polyolefin membrane, Governor Tom Corbett announced Tuesday.

I was appalled while reading the article concerning Gov. Corbett speaking at Millersville University.

The number of state-maintained, structurally deficient spans has fallen from 5,600 three years ago to fewer than 4,500 now.

HARRISBURG The status of Gov. Tom Corbett's lawsuit remains unknown after two hours of arguments Monday.

The pension debt confronting Pennsylvania's retirement systems for state and public school workers is not primarily a result of benefit changes which occurred in 2001, as the editorial states.

By Melissa Daniels | PA Independent HARRISBURG - A state lawmaker continues to raise red flags about a website redesign and management contract.

The legal battle between Governor Corbett and the NCAA will land in a court room for the first time today.

It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov.

Lawyers for the Corbett administration and the NCAA will be in a federal courtroom this afternoon to argue a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against Penn State sanctions.

It was graduation day Saturday at Millersville University. During the commencement ceremony, about ten students and faculty members turned their chairs around as the commencement speaker Gov.

A combination of events is focusing attention on whether Gov. Tom Corbett and lawmakers can perform the political hat trick of passing major legislation dealing with transportation spending, liquor store privatization and curbing public pension costs while passing the next state budget on time for the third year in a row.

The state Senate and House unanimously passed legislation to help develop and expand community-based health care clinics, according to Sen.

By Eric Boehm | PA Independent HARRISBURG - A new political nonprofit claims to be holding Gov.

State officials in no more than five weeks are expected to be done with a long-awaited audit of the region's job-training agency.

Tom Corbett got a cool reception when he addressed a central Pennsylvania university's graduating class.

We're in budget season, which means the city school district is experiencing yet another round of asking for money from local and state governments that have grown inured to the perpetual crisis, as common a sign of spring as azaleas.

Josh Shapiro, chairman of the Montgomery County commissioners and a rising Democratic star, will bypass 2014 races for governor and Congress already congested with ambitious pols and instead launch his own political action committee to try to influence campaigns and issues around the state.