Governor Pat Quinn has signed legislation banning the death penalty in Illinois.
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Delete . State Sen. Bill Emerson (CA) has the most constituents of any legislator: 1,215,876. Senator, we salute you.
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Delete . Zero funded: juvenile aftercare, abstinence ed, comunity based family centers, human services development fund, etc
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Delete . Zero funded: asthma control, managed care assessment, MA obstetric & neonatal, burn cnters, critical access hospitals, trauma centers, etc
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Delete . Zero funded: lifespan respite care, food stamps info centers, emergency response mental health grant, medical assistance outpatient, etc
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Delete . Governor's budget seeks to limit Adult Dental to one dental visit per year.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 1:56:01 PM via web
Delete . 700 mental health employees are slated to lose their jobs under the Governor's budget.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 1:54:11 PM via web
Delete . Governor's budget proposal does not fund the Drug and Alcohol Programs Department.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 1:23:00 PM via web
Delete . Huiman Services Committee removes considering Cohen bill to change DPW to Human Services Department.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 1:21:33 PM via web
Delete . Human Services Committee approves Health Department tracking MRSA infections.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 1:20:44 PM via web
Delete . Lady Gaga emailed state legislators in favor of gay marriage.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 1:15:09 PM via web
Delete . There were 41% fewer gas pipeline explosions in states that spent over 400 inspection days per 1,000 pipeline miles.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 1:06:16 PM via web
Delete . Supreme Court rules DNA test must be allowed in death penalty case.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 12:24:13 PM via web
Delete . Welfare increased by $607 million. Health increased by $61 million.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:53:31 AM via web
Delete . Losers: higher ed, basic ed, DEP, youth development center, and 1,500 employees.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:48:19 AM via web
Delete . "Winners": R&D research business tax credit, film tax credit, DPW, State Police, Military and Veterans, Revenue.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:46:38 AM via web
Delete . Penna. has gone from the "Education Governor" to the "Cut Education Spending" Governor.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:43:17 AM via web
Delete . Tom Corbett is on TV now. Finally, someone other than Charlie Sheen.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:36:03 AM via web
Delete . 11 million family and friends provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer's Disease.
Monday, March 07, 2011 2:29:38 PM via web
Delete . Harvard was the last Division 1 school to ever win a mens basketball conference championship. Tbey finally at least tied for a title.
Monday, March 07, 2011 12:07:31 PM via web
Delete . The U. S. Supreme Court has allowed laws restricting picketing a set distance away from a funeral.
Friday, March 04, 2011 3:39:54 PM via web
Delete . The average number of residents per Penna House district is 62,573 and the average number of residents per Senate district is 254,048.
Friday, March 04, 2011 3:34:40 PM via web
Delete . Homeland Security extends deadline for states to comply with Real ID from May 10, 2011 to January 15, 2013.
Friday, March 04, 2011 3:24:15 PM via web
Delete . A Federal Judge has ruled that Idaho's 34 year old open primary system in unconstitutional.
Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:24:32 PM via web
Delete . Not, of course, that Penn could beat Penn State or Pitt at football....
Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:26:26 AM via web
Delete . The eastern cougar, also known as a Nittany Lion and a Pitt Panther, is extinct. At least for Penn there still are Quakers.
Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:25:13 AM via web
Delete .rickdunham Fellow Texas Tweeps: Has @GovernorPerry explained yet why he has blacklisted reporters (like me) from his Twitter feed?
Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:18:37 AM via web
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Reply Retweeted (Undo) . State revenue forecasts nationwide were off by 10% or $50 billion in FY 2009-2010.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:49:30 PM via web
Delete . Penna. is not one of 24 states that requires carbon monoxide detectors. http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?TabId=13238
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:39:30 PM via web
Delete . Penna is 1 of 24 states that requires recycling of electronic waste. http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?TabId=22239
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:38:20 PM via web
Delete . 2.57% of Pa. insurance are surplus lines from out of state unlicensed insurers. NCSL, CSG, and COIL forming compact to regulate them.
Monday, February 28, 2011 4:03:17 PM via web
Delete . Nationwide, state governments increased spending 0.6% in 2010 and 3.7% in 2009.
Monday, February 28, 2011 2:50:53 PM via web
Delete . The US Energy Dept. oversees nuclear waste in Aliquippa, Burrell, Canonsburg, and Springdale.
Friday, February 25, 2011 2:03:12 PM via web
Delete . @rickdunham I noted Rick Perry wrote that Texas Governor is the job he most wants. I presume he would not want any other job, like Prez?
Friday, February 25, 2011 10:00:53 AM via web
Delete . What policies could be taken that would allow people to better adjust to the current economy? #behindtheheadlines
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:34:53 PM via web
Delete . 26 states have both legislative chambers with Republican majorities. This is the most states with Republican majorities since 1952.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:36:20 AM via web
Delete . State Rep. Abe Lincoln once led a legislative walkout. http://ncsl.typepad.com/the_thicket/2011/02/legislative-walkouts-are-nothing-new.html
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:56:07 PM via web
Delete . Liberal and conservative agreement that military spending can be cut. http://networkedblogs.com/dZetG
Monday, February 07, 2011 4:52:30 PM via web
Delete . NCSL and NGA oppose allowing state governments to go bankrupt. http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?TabId=22155
Monday, February 07, 2011 4:47:42 PM via web
Delete . Only a small portion of Public Welfare Dept. is welfare. Department should be renamed Human Services Dept. to recognize its many programs.
Friday, February 04, 2011 2:11:59 PM via web
Delete . An algae to gas plant connected to a coal mine would allow the algae to capture some of the CO2. Algae eats C02 and emits most of all oxygen
Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:58:42 PM via web
Delete . 8% of the population is covered by a state government pension.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011 3:06:45 PM via web
Delete . What does it mean if the groundhog can't dig from underneath all this ice?
Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:58:04 PM via web
Delete . Pa 1 of 9 states with scholarship tax credits: http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?TabId=12950
Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:59:12 PM via web
Delete . Early childhood home visits to begin. http://www.ncsl.org/IssuesResearch/HumanServices/EarlyChildhood101Webinar/tabid/21644/Default.aspx
Monday, January 31, 2011 3:27:04 PM via web
Delete . Montana may move to mail only voting. Proposal has passed the Montana House for all but school elections.
Friday, January 28, 2011 2:33:23 PM via web
Delete . Pennsylvania: We Are Number One (in arson): http://pleated-jeans.com/2011/01/24/the-united-states-of-shame-chart/
Friday, January 28, 2011 1:13:52 PM via web
Delete . Deficit reduction plan in Hawaii: A copy of Obama's birth certificate will be sold for $100 each.
Friday, January 28, 2011 11:12:29 AM via web
Delete . Pa House committees were 14 majority 10 minority. When Dems won majority, they gave the Republicans 1 extra seat: 14 majority, 11 minority.
Friday, January 28, 2011 10:16:03 AM via web
Delete . Moody's will begin rating state bonds by including consideration of state pension liabilities and assets.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:30:53 PM via web
Delete . Corporate income state taxes nationally 5.6% of states revenues in 2009. Four decade high was 9.7% in 1980 and low was 4.7% in 2001.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:25:40 PM via web
Delete . Law changes from 1998 add sales tax revenues $27 billion & corporate income revenues by $8.5 billion, lower income tax revenues $212 million
Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:01:36 PM via web
Delete . In 2010, state law changes increased income taxes $10.8 billion, sales taxes $7.1 billion, & corporate incomes taxes $8.5 billion, NCSL est.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:54:13 PM via web
Delete . Pa. House Republicans are on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. House Democrats lag behind. http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=13409
Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:34:56 PM via web
Delete . @MareZarefoss You are right. Athletes should not shake off brain injury and keep playing. Brain injuries can have lasting problems.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:30:09 PM via web in reply to MareZarefoss
Delete . Pa. offers tax credit to qualifying film productions. Different states have varying incentives. http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=20189
Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:17:56 PM via web
Delete . Attended good conference: Concussions and brain injuries are very serious. Coaches should properly handle concussions to student athletes.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:43:23 PM via web
Delete . Penna. official Dec 2010 unemployment rate was 8.5%.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:45:31 PM via web
Delete . Methadone Incident Review Team legislation has unanimously passed the House Human Services Committee.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:00:31 AM via web
Delete . Penn's David Skeel: let state governments go bankrupt. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/give-states-way-go-bankrupt_518378.html?page=1
Friday, January 21, 2011 2:59:28 PM via web
Delete . William Henry Harrison studied medicine at Penn, where he failed to learn not to give the longest inaugural address in the rain.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:19:34 PM via web
Delete .StateRepCohenPA The #Leach #era? That is #liberal #PA #Senator #Daylin Leach's idea as to what the time of the #Corbett Administration will be called.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:52:47 AM via web
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Reply Retweeted (Undo) . In Montana, you can not be charged with DUI while on horseback. In case you were wondering.
Monday, January 17, 2011 12:53:44 PM via web
Delete . 14 states, including Penna, have state programs on preventing and treating diabetes.
Monday, January 17, 2011 12:44:22 PM via web
Delete . Some notes on Pennsylvania history: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1FG2PREWBPVZO
Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:33:48 PM via web
Delete . Some Idaho legislators do not know Idaho history. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011203363_pf.html
Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:32:28 PM via web
Delete . The District of Columbia will begin publicly posting energy use data of all its public buildings.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:50:17 PM via web
Delete . Facebook will be open for use by state and local governments, in agreement reached today.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:46:18 PM via web
Delete . Penna. has had $392 million in earmarks that were never spent.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:37:24 PM via web
Delete . It was a pleasure meeting Governor George Leader today. He made state government more responsive and serving of public needs.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011 5:03:12 PM via web
Delete . 13 states, but not Penna, have restrictions on building new nuclear power facilities. http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?TabId=21817
Monday, January 03, 2011 1:34:28 PM via web
Delete . Medicial whiskey was permitted by prescription during Prohibition.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:57:12 PM via web
Delete . Do not trust anyone who claims they worked for the Wyoming Congressional Redistricting Committee.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 4:14:27 PM via web
Delete . @TheFix http://www.texasmonthly.com/magazine/bbq/list This seems to be the latest list.
Monday, December 27, 2010 6:09:20 PM via web in reply to TheFix
Delete . Hunting licenses in Penna. have fallen 20% over past two decades.They have also fallen in 32 other states.
Monday, December 20, 2010 1:41:49 PM via web
Delete . There are 38,217 reported AIDS patients in Penna. Penna is the state with the 7th highest number of AIDS cases.
Monday, December 20, 2010 1:36:40 PM via web
Delete . Nov 2010 Penna official unemployment rate is 8.6%. http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=13308
Friday, December 17, 2010 3:10:19 PM via web
Delete . 9 states, none of them Pa., have laws for reinstatement of parental rights after they have been severed. http://www.ncsl.org/?TabId=21770
Friday, December 17, 2010 1:01:06 PM via web
Delete . In case anyone wonders, no one pre-approves my tweets.
Friday, December 17, 2010 10:51:16 AM via web
Delete . Some Penna. communities using new traffic lights that can email technicians when they malfunction.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:51:34 AM via web
Delete . New Jersey Turnpike smartphone app gives verbal warning of traffic jams.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:43:48 AM via web
Delete . Research verifies 2011 will be 1st time since caucus leaders recognized in 1949 that no Penna. State House leader will be from Philadelphia.
Friday, December 10, 2010 5:31:43 PM via web
Delete . NCSL predicts Penna FY11 budget deficit of $272 million, or 0.2% of the budget total.
Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:39:56 PM via web
Delete . Women are 17% of Pennsylvania legislators and 23% of legislators nationwide.
Tuesday, December 07, 2010 1:52:00 PM via web
Delete . Even though Governor Christie canceled the Trans-Hudson Tunnel, New Jersey still owes $271 million for obligations prior to cancellation.
Monday, December 06, 2010 10:42:30 AM via web
Delete . The Golden Gate Bridge serves 40 million vehicles a year. It is being retrofited to withstand a "maximum credible" earthquake.
Monday, December 06, 2010 10:39:28 AM via web
Delete . Organ donations in Arizona threatened due to budget cuts. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/us/03transplant.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2
Friday, December 03, 2010 1:32:06 PM via web
Delete . When Illinois civil union law become effective, 28% of the nation will live where civil union or gay marriage is recognized.
Friday, December 03, 2010 10:25:20 AM via web
Delete . Illinois legislature sends civil union bill to Governor.
Thursday, December 02, 2010 1:16:58 PM via web
Delete . White House Commission recommends ending tax exemption for state & local government bonds. This would be a major change in public financing
Thursday, December 02, 2010 1:12:55 PM via web
Delete . Downtown residents nationwide compose 0.3% of the total population and 90% are single.
Wednesday, December 01, 2010 4:23:42 PM via web
Delete . Rep. Cohen has a resolution on preparing for health care professional shortage. This problem is growing. http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=21716
Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:37:17 PM via web
Delete . BPA suspected of health risk to children banned in childrens' products in seven states, not in Penna. http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=21731
Monday, November 29, 2010 3:53:46 PM via web
Delete . Net party swing,legislative elections nationally: 632 (D to R) in 2010, 721 (D to R) in 1938, 812 (R to D) in 1958 and 932 (R to D) in 1922.
Friday, November 19, 2010 11:21:24 AM via web
Delete . State requirements on balanced budgets vary by state. http://www.ncsl.org/documents/fiscal/StateBalancedBudgetProvisions2010.pdf
Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:00:30 PM via web
Delete . Penna Governor must submit a balanced budget by Constitution and statutory requirements No such legal requirement on passing legislature
Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:57:37 PM via web
Delete . 130,000 students from China attend college in the US, a 30% increase from last year. Far fewer Americans study in and learn about China.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 12:48:25 PM via web
Delete . Congratulations to Rep. Dan Frankel on his election as Democratic Caucus Chairman. Congratulations also to Rep. Frank Dermody & Mike Hanna.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 4:30:16 PM via web
Delete . Penna. and Ky. first state legislatures in session on Jan. 4. DC City Council begins Jan. 3. Everyone else are just slackers.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 12:50:00 PM via web
Delete . @PAFORMEDICALMJ Thank you for the news. I look forward to more acceptance of medical marijuana.
