Day: October 2, 2012

Pennsylvania Debt Clock

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Pennsylvania Debt Clock
Pennsylvania Debt Clock

Distinctive Home On Busy Street Can’t Be An Office

The Springfield (Pa) Zoning Board of Adjustment, Sept. 27, voted 3-1 to not a allow the distinctive six-bedroom home at 575 W. Springfield Road to be used as an office by Cellucci Foran Insurance Inc.

Nancy Thomas cast the dissenting vote.
Shayna Golda has been trying to sell the home  since her father died in 2010. The home is next to the booming Life Christian Fellowship Church and Daycare, across the street from often-used Halderman Field, and about 200 yards south of the intersection with Route 1.
Neighbor David Begley testified against the proposed variance.
Cellucci Foran would have moved from 130 S. State Road.
 

Judge Says No PennDOT ID Needed For General Election

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson, at the request of the State Supreme Court, has ruled on Pennsylvania’s Photo Voter ID law  saying that state election officials are preliminarily enjoined from  requiring that a registered elector must apply for a PennDOT 

product prior to the elector’s seeking issuance of a free DOS ID.

He said the issue will be further addressed after the election.
He said election officials can still ask for photo ID.

 

Public Safety Bills Advance To Full House

The House Judiciary Committee voted last week to send several public safety measures to the full House for consideration, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). 

The bills include: 

  • House Bill 2249, which makes it a crime for an individual who engages in online impersonation to create a web page or send an email or other electronic message by using the name or identifying information of another person, with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate or deceive, without the person’s content.
  • House Bill 2507, which would enhance sentencing for criminal activity related to criminal street gangs. Specific circumstances would trigger the enhancement, such as committing a crime of violence like drug trafficking or assault, where the offense was knowingly committed at the direction of a criminal street gang or if a person encouraged another to participate in the offense with a criminal street gang.
  • Senate Bill 775, which would expand the state’s DNA database by requiring that a DNA sample be obtained from an individual within five days of arrest for a felony sex offense and other specified offense.