Day: April 24, 2013

Rob Ciervo Primarying McIlhinney?

Rob Ciervo Primarying McIlhinney? — Newtown  (Bucks County) Supervisor Rob Ciervo is considering a primary challenge to State Senator Chuck McIlhinney, reports Bob Guzzardi.

McIlhinney is the Republican who is the major obstacle to the privatization of Pennsylvania’s state-owned liquor monopoly and other small government reforms.

McIlhinney ostensibly represents the 10th District although many note that his true constituency appears to be those benefiting from business as usual such as Pat Deon and Gene DiGirolamo.

Ciervo is notably not affiliated with the Bucks County GOP leadership.

 

Rob Ciervo Primarying McIlhinney?

Omnibit Of The Day

Spain gets its name from the Hebrew word meaning “island of the rabbit”.

At least according to some.

–William W. Lawrence Sr.

Bills Modernize Prevailing Wage In Pa.

Bills Modernize Prevailing Wage In Pa. — The House Labor and Industry Committee sent to the full body last  week two bills aimed at modernizing the state’s prevailing wage law, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129), who is a member of the Committee.

The prevailing wage applies to any public works project estimated to cost more than $25,000, which includes any construction, reconstruction, demolition, alteration, or repair paid for in whole or in part out of the funds of a public body. That amount has not been altered for more than 50 years.

House Bill 796 would raise the threshold to $100,000. If the current $25,000 threshold were to be adjusted for inflation, it would equal just under $188,000.

House Bill 665 would expand the types of road maintenance projects that would be exempt from Prevailing Wage Act requirements to enable municipalities to stretch their road repair budgets and allow them to maintain more roads.

 

Bills Modernize Prevailing Wage In Pa.

SEPTA Traffic Snarls In Springfield

SEPTA Traffic Snarls In SpringfieldSEPTA Traffic Snarls In Springfield — Work on SEPTA’s Route 101 trolley line caused stop lights to turn steady red on Springfield Road in Springfield this morning, April 24, 2013, leading motorists to make their own traffic rules until police arrived to provide some order. The photo was taken at 10:12 a.m. Police arrived on the scene about 10 minutes later.

 

SEPTA Traffic Snarls In Springfield

Bob Edgar (1943-2013) Pol Pot

Bob Edgar (1943-2013) Pol Pot — Bob Edgar died yesterday, April 23. He represented the 7th District of Pennsylvania in Congress from 1975 to 1987. He was a Democrat.

One should not speak ill of the dead so I’ll simply note that my most vivid recollection of him is the series of articles he wrote for The Philadelphia Inquirer in which he defended Pol Pot and denied the existence of the Cambodian killing fields.

Bob Edgar (1943-2013) Pol Pot

Cryptowit

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
Art Buchwald