Medical marijuana is legal in 14 states and the D.C.http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=19587
about 20 hours ago via web
Delete . Rep. Cohen's Medical Marijuana bill has been re-referred to the Human Services Committee.
about 20 hours ago via web
Delete . A timeline of Minnesota laws concerning women: http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/womenstimeline/details.aspx?recid=all
about 20 hours ago via web
Delete . HAVA funds have been used in Pennsylvania for voter education, polling place accessibility, language accessibility, & voting system upgrades
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:14:42 PM via web
Delete . Penna. average 64 cases anually of wrong surgery on wrong patient or wrong body part.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 2:23:58 PM via web
Delete . Univ of Md Baltimore study: 1 in 30 have a gambling problem. I bet the real number is higher.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:45:21 AM via web
Delete . In a bit of a family feud, Jon Huntsman will be seeking the Republican nomination against Third Cousin Mitt Romney.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:41:56 AM via web
Delete . With the decision of Donald Trump not to run, Jon Huntsman seeks to fill the gap of Penn graduates running for President.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:41:00 AM via web
Delete . Penna official unemployment rate was 7.4% in April 2011. http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?TabId=13308
Monday, June 20, 2011 1:21:43 PM via web
Delete . Hackers erase 8 million patient records (they didn't get the back-up records). http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=23044
Friday, June 17, 2011 3:45:16 PM via web
Delete . Anarchists going to the dogs. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2011/06/06/AGh2i5XH_story.html
Friday, June 17, 2011 2:57:29 PM via web
Delete . Hackers get into Citibank accounts of 8,490 Pennsylvanians and 360,083 total.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:42:52 PM via web
Delete . Prescription drug overdose is the second leading cause of unintentional death. Car accident is the leading cause.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:30:44 PM via web
Delete . Univ. of Penna. study: Doctors won't see these % of children: 11% with private insurace and 66% with CHIP or Medcaid.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:30:27 PM via web
Delete . Rep. Cohen bill to create a tax credit for installing electric vehicle charging stations is HB 1675..
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:24:42 PM via web
Delete . Electric vehicles use far less energy and are lighter since they don't have a motor, thus causing less wear on roads.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:19:21 PM via web
Delete . If you wish more transparency: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2003052/Airbus-unveil-transparent-plane-flying-come-2050.html
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 11:55:29 AM via web
Delete . Rep. Cohen's multistate sales and use bill for Penna. to join compact to collect state's share of Internet sales taxes is HB 1664.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 11:38:25 AM via web
Delete . HB 1653 is the Governor Raymond P. Shafer Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 1:24:54 PM via web
Delete . Raymond Shafer, former Pa. Governor, recommended to President Nixon that marijuana be decriminalized. Nixon chose otherwise.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 1:23:36 PM via web
Delete . 75.5% of Penna legislators have college degrees. National average is 74.7%. http://chronicle.com/article/Degrees-in-the-Statehouse-/127797/
Monday, June 13, 2011 2:57:10 PM via web
Delete . Rep. Cohen's medical marijuana bill HB 1653 has been referred to the Health Committee.
Monday, June 13, 2011 2:48:46 PM via web
Delete . 24 states have enacted fiscal year 2011-2012 budgets. http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=23116
Friday, June 10, 2011 3:02:15 PM via web
Delete . Brookings study: Percent of population that are immigrants: Phila. metro area: 9.3%, Pittsburgh metro area: 3.0%.
Friday, June 10, 2011 2:47:45 PM via web
Delete . Brookings study: percent of immigrants age 25-64 with college degree: 19% in 1980, 30% in 2010.
Friday, June 10, 2011 2:33:58 PM via web
Delete . Of legislators nationwide, 49% are age 50-64, 25% are age 35-49, 24% are age 65+, and 4% are age 20-34.
Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:11:08 PM via web
Delete . Susan Corbett asks for restoring funding for the Council on the Arts.
Wednesday, June 08, 2011 9:16:39 AM via web
Delete . Missouri health officials halt sales of cicada ice cream. Customers are bugged.
Wednesday, June 08, 2011 9:13:12 AM via web
Delete . Kudos to Stephanie Rothenberg and her proud family on her first Broadway show. A well earned standing ovation for a terrific play..
Thursday, June 02, 2011 6:57:26 PM via web
Delete . Lambeau Field is known as the Frozen Tundra.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 3:56:40 PM via web
Delete . Wisconsin created the first primary in 1903. By 1917 almost all other states switched to primaries.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 3:31:54 PM via web
Delete . Due to costs, Washington has canceled its 2012 Presidential Primary.
Thursday, May 12, 2011 5:40:04 PM via web
Delete . Delaware today enacted a civil union law effective the beginning of next year.
Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:45:40 PM via web
Delete . Study showed 61% of legislators responded to email from "Jake" while 55% responded to email from "DeShawn".
Thursday, May 12, 2011 3:45:21 PM via web
Delete . State legislators unkowingly used in academic research: http://butler.research.yale.edu/papers/AJPS_Discriminate.pdf
Thursday, May 12, 2011 3:44:29 PM via web
Delete . Drives that drive themselves already tested on the roads! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/science/11drive.html?scp=6
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:33:14 PM via web
Delete . The most common childhood chronic illness is dental decay, sufered by 25% by age 5 and 68% by age 19.
Monday, May 09, 2011 12:27:42 PM via web
Delete . Penna and all states to be sued over climate change. http://bit.ly/kLI8p8
Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:04:45 PM via TweetMeme
Delete . 6% of prisoners take college courses while in prison. http://on.wsj.com/klH9rQ
Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:01:38 PM via web
Delete . Penna. does not have a specific law on shaken baby syndrome. http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?TabId=17848
Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:12:29 AM via web
Delete . When I saw the tweet about 420 attendees, I note it was from PEGPAC and not NORML.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011 3:51:00 PM via web
Delete . Federal prosecutors warning they could prosecute legal medical marijuana operations and state employees approving their operations.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011 2:41:56 PM via web
Delete . Federal government proposing measuring all covered Medicaid benefits, access to care & compare with other insurance rates every 5 years.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011 2:31:33 PM via web
Delete . Operation Bravo seeks help for disabled veterans are in long term care facilities who need assistance in voting, as do other such residents.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 9:54:14 AM via web
Delete . Long term care residents face difficultes voting, according to Jason Karlawish et. al at Penn.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 9:44:30 AM via web
Delete . Harrisburg Senators play the POM Wonderful Presents the Greatest Movie Ever Sold Curve tonight.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 9:27:27 AM via web
Delete . Pew Center: Penna. public employee pensions are 81% funded, just above the 80% recommended funding threshhold the GAO recommends.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:09:31 PM via web
Delete . @pgPoliTweets Will the Administration look to save costs through greater use of telemedicine?
Monday, April 25, 2011 2:42:20 PM via web in reply to pgPoliTweets
Delete . @pgPoliTweets Is the Administration going to use more sense on settlement agreements, and will they support HB 236 to mandate this?
Monday, April 25, 2011 2:41:14 PM via web in reply to pgPoliTweets
Delete . Our neighbor Ohio plans to spend $1.4 billion this year - most ever by any state government - on economic development.
Monday, April 25, 2011 1:38:22 PM via web
Delete . Family group conferencing, involving family members in foster care, improves foster care success. http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=22410
Monday, April 25, 2011 1:33:48 PM via web
Delete . Penna.'s Federal Unemployment Account has a loan balance, as of April 18, of $3,708,522,637.73.
Monday, April 25, 2011 1:26:24 PM via web
Delete . Link to tribute to Tom Corbett: Space Cadet:http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20110424&name=Funky_Winkerbean
Monday, April 25, 2011 8:49:18 AM via web
Delete . See Sunday's Funky Winkerbean for a tribute to a 1950s TV series.
Monday, April 25, 2011 8:45:37 AM via web
Delete . Wm. Henry Harrison only Penn President. Attended medical school; did not learn speaking in rain with the longest inaugural speech can kill.
Sunday, April 24, 2011 3:19:38 PM via web
Delete . I believe Donald Trump would be the first Presidential candidate who graduated from my Wharton alma mater.
Sunday, April 24, 2011 3:16:14 PM via web
Delete . I am convinced the Harrisburg beavers are innocent, but has anyone kept tabs on the Capitol mice? #beavergate
Sunday, April 24, 2011 3:10:47 PM via web
Delete . Sure it was not beavers that broke water main as contractor said. If they did cause the 3 day shutdown, maybe they were protesting DEP cuts.
Friday, April 22, 2011 2:57:03 PM via web
Delete . Vermont joins National Popular Vote compact. Compact now has 74 Electoral Votes to create popular vote elections. http://t.co/7jzTa3H
Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:30:53 PM via Tweet Button
Delete . Texas Governor Rick Perry proclaims Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas. If only we could send excess Harrisburg water to Texas.
Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:46:23 PM via web
Delete . State government budgets gaps nationwide at least $87 billion and may be over $100 billion. http://t.co/xR13Jf7 via @reuters
Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:40:54 PM via Tweet Button
Delete . If you work for a state legislature, they will let you retire when you hit age 102. http://t.co/xyxnYzx via @AddThis
Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:35:04 PM via Tweet Button
Delete . I realized today I spent much of 4-20 researching medical marijuana issues.
Thursday, April 21, 2011 9:49:12 AM via web
Delete .StateRepCohenPA http://bit.ly/hVvnvO via @addthis #Harrisburg, #GroundZero for govt #fiscalproblems, may become GroundZero for #infrastructure problems too.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:46:55 AM via web
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Reply Retweeted (Undo) . Penna. official March 2011 unemployment rate was 7.8%. http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=13308
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:50:03 AM via web
Delete . One former Illinois State Senator recalls another former Illinois Senator's work on Internet sales tax legislation. http://bit.ly/flnESt
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:34:44 AM via web
Delete . Again, some of us aren't scared off by low water pressure. Some of us are working at the Capitol. Where is everyone else?
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:19:50 PM via web
Delete . Some of us are still at work at the Capitol. We don't let a little lack of water pressure scare us off.
Monday, April 18, 2011 4:04:34 PM via web
Delete . What happens in Vegas may not stay there. http://t.co/4zTc0Vx via @washingtonpost
Friday, April 15, 2011 1:41:05 PM via web
Delete . Alabama drops it Deferred Retirement Option Plan. http://t.co/7t8AGQD
Friday, April 15, 2011 12:47:54 PM via web
Delete . Altoona sells the naming rights to itself for 60 days. Visit wonderful Pom Wonderful Presents the Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Penna.
Friday, April 15, 2011 12:44:12 PM via web
Delete . Congressional agreement cuts WIC $504 M, LIHEAP $390 M, state access health grants $75 M, IDEA $19 M
Friday, April 15, 2011 12:29:36 PM via web
Delete . 97% of surface transportation is owned and operated by state or local governments.
Thursday, April 14, 2011 5:12:16 PM via web
Delete . The Montana Governor does not just veto bills, he takes a branding iron reading "VETO" to them.
Thursday, April 14, 2011 4:41:19 PM via web
Delete . Pew Center study finds prison recidivism rate basically unchaged over decades. Longer prison sentences do not appear to affect recidivism.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 4:22:08 PM via web
Delete . Last session, Oregon legislators snuck the entire lyrics of the song "Never Going to Give You Up" into their various floor speeches.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:37:44 PM via web
Delete . Syracuse University study concludes optimal cost savings for school mergers occurs for districts with 1,000 to 3,500 students.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:26:35 PM via web
Delete . 23 of the 35 Philadelphia schools with the lowest Math scores are in parts of city with the highest incarceration rates.
Friday, April 08, 2011 4:17:10 PM via web
Delete . Alaska passed bill allowing service personnel to designate remains handling. Similar to Cohen HB 579. Alaska has passed only one other bill.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:08:07 PM via web
Delete . One fourth of legislators nationwide are new to the job of this year. http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=22415
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:25:48 PM via web
Delete . A person can be dyslexic and become Governor. Time to end recognize that one can move forward with dyslexia. http://ht.ly/4oXqD
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 3:34:25 PM via web
Delete . National Instute of Health: marijuana may help cancer patients. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/healthprofessional
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 5:03:17 PM via web
Delete . Drive drunk? There's an app for that. Some Senators think there should not be an app for that. http://abcn.ws/hcBIOv
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 1:17:07 PM via TweetMeme
Delete . The IRS estimates 1/4 to 1/5 of people eligibile for Earned Income Tax Credit do not claim it. Many may not know they qualify.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 4:43:26 PM via web
Delete . Will Pennsylvania be the only of 55 states, terrorities, and DC to leave the National Conference of State Legislatures?
Monday, March 21, 2011 4:38:13 PM via web
Delete . Unlike Utah, Penna. and 48 other states do not have an official state firearm. Utah's is the M1911 pistol.
Monday, March 21, 2011 12:04:21 PM via web
Delete . 130,000 school districts in 1920; 14,000 today. Many consolidated to save money. http://www.ncsl.org/?TabId=22380
Monday, March 21, 2011 11:53:36 AM via web
Delete . 89.5% of the 504 bills that passed the Utah legislaure were sponsored by Republicans.
Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:51:20 PM via web
Delete . Pennsylvania has 9,980 miles of natural gas transmission pipes.
Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:35:57 PM via web
Delete . Irish monks from St. Patrick's churches preserved texts that otherwise may have been lost forever. Today, people just hit "delete blog".
Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:35:58 AM via web
Delete . Medical marijuana may stunt growth of cancer tumors. http://www.cannabis-med.org/english/journal/en_2006_02_1.pdf
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:26:22 PM via web
Delete . Appropriations Chairman William Adolph: "I could not support (the budget) as it stands now, with the education cuts."
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:08:37 AM via web
Delete . Profile of legislative scholar Alan Rosethal: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/rutgers_professor_appointed_ti.html
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:31:25 AM via web
Delete . Its easier to fight for democracy than it is to pay for it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/election-2012-struggling-_n_835678.html
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:04:57 PM via web
Delete . I give you, the flying car: http://www.terrafugia.com/index.html
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:57:14 PM via web
Delete . Flying cars go on sale next year. Seriously. I am not making this up.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:13:23 AM via web
Delete . Rick Santorum admits he smoked marijuana. Maybe he needed it for medical reasons. Hope he supports medical marijuana now
Monday, March 14, 2011 12:07:41 PM via web
Delete . Higher ed having a rough time with state funding nationwide. http://www.ncsl.org/documents/fiscal/HigherEdFunding.pdf
Monday, March 14, 2011 12:06:05 PM via web
Delete . In No Child Left Behind, 80% of all schools are indeed behind (in meeting target goals).
1:26 PM Mar 10th via web
Delete . Smokers are more apt to become addicted to gambling as well. They also gamble more when they smoke.
