Category: Pennsylvania
No smoking!
| June 13, 2008 | Posted by breen under Government, Pennsylvania, Public Health |
Today, Governor Ed Rendell signed the recently passed smoking ban into law (link). The state-wide ban will take effect in 90 days, or on September 11, 2008. Get ready to breathe easy.
Smoking Banned in (some) Public Places
| June 11, 2008 | Posted by breen under Government, Issues, Pennsylvania, Public Health |
Finally, after much to do, the Pennsylvania General Assembly has passed a smoking ban. A compromise bill, devised by a Conference Committee of House and Senate Democrats and Republicans, passed the House last week and passed the Senate yesterday on its second consideration. The new bill bans smoking in public places but includes a host…
PA Live-Testing Results Site
| April 20, 2008 | Posted by mmp under 2008 Primary Election April, Elections, Gossip, Pennsylvania, Voting Rights |
Today is Sunday, April 20, and Pennsylvania’s Primary is Tuesday April 22. If you visit the PA elections page, you find that they are testing their results page live, rather than offline. * For the record, I do not believe that there is a conspiracy afoot to rig the election for Mike Huckabee, and probably…
Mind the Gap
| April 8, 2008 | Posted by breen under 2008 Primary Election April, Elections, Pennsylvania, Politics, Polls |
“Closing in…the Pennsylvania Primary is two weeks from today and Quinnipiac University’s now says Obama is down 6 to Clinton from 9 on April 2nd…” “$40-million-plus tumbled into the Barak Obama campaign in March…that is more than raised by Hillary Clinton ($20-million) and John McCain ($15-million) combined…” (from today’s Harrisburg Online)
who’s ahead?
| April 3, 2008 | Posted by breen under 2008 Primary Election April, Elections, Pennsylvania |
From today’s Harrisburg Online: “Is Obama already ahead in Pennsylvania?…while three recent polls have reported that Hillary Clinton’s lead over Barack Obama is dwindling – her lead is down to 9 from 12 in the latest Quinnipiac University survey; Rasmussen says she’s gone from 10 to 5 in the last week; Survey USA says she…
Laurels we probably don’t deserve
| March 28, 2008 | Posted by andrea under Blogs, Pennsylvania, Politics |
Yesterday Matt called my attention to the bizarre fact that somehow P2 has been identified as one of the (three!) best political blogs in PA by the Washington Post. Sure, we do our best (well, maybe we don’t always do our best — we come and go in fits and starts, really) — but imho I…
Registration Over, Now What?
| March 25, 2008 | Posted by mmp under 2008 Primary Election April, Elections, Pennsylvania |
The period to register to vote before Pennsylvania’s April 22 Primary has ended, and the Democratic Party has set a new record. Democratic registration has passed the 4 million mark–more than a 4% increase and the first time any party has had that many registered voters–and the Republican party has just over 3.2 million voters.
DCCC & PA’s Congressional Delegation
| March 24, 2008 | Posted by mmp under 2008 Primary Election April, Elections, Pennsylvania, Politics, Western PA |
This, from Daily Kos: The DCCC has released its list of targeted races for the 2008 cycle, and it is manna from heaven for horserace junkies, and really all Democrats who want to feel optimistic about this fall. Both of Western Pennsylvania’s Republican Congressmen–Tim Murphy and Phil English–are on the DCCC’s targeted list. In addition,…
Winning Pennsylvania
| March 14, 2008 | Posted by mmp under 2008, 2008 Primary Election April, Elections, Pennsylvania, Politics |
Pt 3. The Prediction In my previous two posts, I wrote more than anyone should really want to know about how delegates to the Democratic Convention will be selected and who those people will be. In this post, I will get to the much more interesting and VERY much more speculative task of breaking down…
Who Are Pennsylvania’s Delegates?
| March 13, 2008 | Posted by mmp under 2008, 2008 Primary Election April, Elections, Endorsements, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Western PA |
Pt 2. The People If you missed yesterday’s post, I broke down how Pennsylvania will be selecting our 187 delegates. They are broken down into five categories: Unpledged Political Leaders and Elected Officials (PLEOs) and Unpledged Add-On Delegates (Superdelegates), Pledged Delegates (by Congressional District), Pledged At-Large Delegates, and Pledged PLEOs. In this post, I’ll take a…
Pennsylvania Delegate Selection 101
| March 12, 2008 | Posted by mmp under 2008, Elections, Pennsylvania, Politics |
Pt 1. The Numbers We’re up! Now that Mississippi voters have had their say, and Pennsylvania is going to have a short six weeks of campaign ads, candidate appearances, phone calls, and annoying blog comments before we walk into the voting booth. (We’ve also still got another week and a half or so before the voter…
Public Meeting: Penn Avenue Corridor Phasing Plan
| March 11, 2008 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Community Development, Pennsylvania, Transportation, Urban Planning |
Public Meeting: Penn Avenue Corridor Phasing Plan Tuesday, March 11, 2008 – 6pm Saint Lawrence O’Toole Activity Building Penn Ave and North Atlantic More detail: http://groups.google.com/group/pennavepgh/browse_thread/thread/ef6f6b39d0eea384 Time: 6:00PM – Sign In 6:30PM – Presentation 7:00PM – Group Breakout Discussions The City of Pittsburgh, in cooperation with the PA Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration,…
Your right to know
| February 19, 2008 | Posted by breen under Civic Engagement, Government, Pennsylvania |
As you may have heard, the state legislature recently passed the Open Records Law, which makes all Commonwealth documents available to the public. The key changes that Act 3 of 2008 makes to previous law are as follows: Assumes that all records are public and shifts the burden to the government to prove otherwise. For…
Old School thinking – Onorato’s A Fan of the MFX
| January 14, 2008 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Mon Valley, Mon-Fayette Expressway, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh |
Well it looks like the Regional Chamber Alliance’s email and meeting were successful because this was title of the article in the Trib: Onorato take lead for the county leg of the Mon-Fayette road “The Mon-Fayette will provide linkages and open up old industrial sites to jobs and commerce in the south, and its Squirrel…
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