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CH2MHill Buys Bikes For Children — Every now and then some evil faceless corporation does something nice. Here is a story from Eye On Paulsboro about how the engineering firm CH2MHill buys bikes for children. CH2M is helping build the new Paulsboro (N.J.) Marine Terminal on the Delaware River.
The interesting stuff starts at about the 19 minute mark.
Pa Senate Passes No Tax Hike Budget — Matt Brouilette of Commonwealth Foundation tweeted about an hour ago that the Pennsylvania Senate has overwhelmingly passed a $30.3 billion no-tax hike budget that could be on Gov. Wolf’s desk tonight (Dec. 23). The bill was HB 1460 which was passed by the House on Dec. 8 and and was prime sponsored by Springfield’s Bill Adolph (R-165) . Today’s Senate vote was 33-17.
Matt notes that if Wolf vetoes it it’s $0 for schools. If he signs it it is “record high funding.”
Of course, if he did this back in June when the legislature passed its initial budget it would have saved a lot of aggravation for a lot of people.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-23-15
Why do children seem to have such big eyes and senior citizens small ones? It’s an optical illusion. Your eyes never grow but your ears and nose never stop.
Budget Deal Killed Again — The Pennsylvania House has adjourned without a final vote on the 2015 budget. Yesterday, Dec. 22, the House voted 100-99 to approve the $30.8 billion spending plan the state Senate passed earlier this month. The approval, however, did not include the extremely mild pension reform demanded by the Senate.
The Senate, to its credit, said that reform is a must.
So, the House adjourned without a vote.
House Majority Leader Dave Reed (R-62) said the House could be called back into session with six hours notice.
Please understand, it is entirely within Gov. Wolf’s power to end the crisis. The legislature passed a budget on deadline in June which did not increase taxes which Wolf vetoed. The legislature has also offered stopgap spending bills, one which Wolf vetoed and the others which he promised to.