Government Accountability

Bonusgate Makes National Headlines

• Nathan Benefield
• January 18, 2010

Though it wasn’t one of their top 10 scandals of 2009, Time Magazine has a story today on “bonusgate”, and the subsequent corruption investigation, and its implications on Pennsylvania…

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Health Care

Attorneys General Threaten Lawsuit over Federal Health Care Bill

• Nathan Benefield
• December 31, 2009

Attorneys General from 13 states, including Pennsylvania’s Tom Corbett, have threatened a lawsuit over pending health care legislation. (HT Tony…

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Health Care

Challenging the Constitutionality of Health Care Legislation

• Nathan Benefield
• December 29, 2009

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett is joining with a number of other state AG‘s (latest count is 10 attorneys general) to challenge the “Nebraska Compromise” in the latest…

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Government Accountability

Tweet Pennsylvania: Latest Updates from PA Lawmakers

• Nathan Benefield
• December 15, 2009

The Commonwealth Foundation has a new project page, where you can follow all the Pennsylvania state lawmakers on Twitter, even if you don’t have a Twitter account yourself. Check…

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Government Accountability

Veon Fallout: An End to WAMs

• Nathan Benefield
• March 26, 2009

Yesterday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett announced additional charges against former Rep. Mike Veon and staffer Annamarie Peretta-Rosepink for their role in directing state funds to the Beaver Initiative…

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Government Accountability

Cut Legislature First

• Nathan Benefield
• November 24, 2008

The Philadelphia Inquirer editorializes that the first item to be cut from the budget should be the legislature’s budget, noting this is the source of funding for bonuses, no-work…

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BonusGate update and questions

• Nathan Benefield
• August 31, 2008

The Democracy Rising PA Newsletter raises some interesting points about a pronouncement by Attorney General Tom Corbett that he wouldn’t make announcements about indictments leading up to Nov.

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Regulation

Gaming Control Board screw-ups continue

• Nathan Benefield
• May 13, 2008

A number of PA House Republicans are calling for PA AG Tom Corbett to investigate the Gaming Control Board (as if he didn’t already have enough government officials…

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DeWeese proposes “ethics training”

• Nathan Benefield
• October 5, 2007

Philadelphia Inquirer on how Bill DeWeese plans to “clean up” Harrisburg in the wake of the Attorney General’s investigation of his office in the Bonus-Gate scandal (among other things):…

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