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Just got a phone call from a Brittany on behalf of the Obama campaign. She said 54 people were being bussed down from NewYork this weekend to canvass Delaware County. She wanted to know if I can help drive them.
How is Barack Obama like Jesus Christ?
The House Education Committee voted to require sexual abuse awareness to be taught in the school health curriculum for students in grades K-8, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). The focus of House Bill 2318 is not the perpetrator, but the prevention of child exploitation through awareness, he said.
House Bill 2318 seeks to arm children with information that will help them to avoid victimization, compel them to come forward if they are victimized, and help to prevent others from falling victim to abuse.
Cox said that one in four girls and one in seven boys are sexually abused before they reach the age of 18, and many are unaware of what happened or unsure of how to communicate the abuse.
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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.
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
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:
If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP? ?
Hat tip Cathy Craddock
Lawmakers unveiled bipartisan legislation this week to encourage investment in Pennsylvania’s high-tech industries, promote entrepreneurship and create jobs, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).
Known as the Innovate Pennsylvania Program, House Bill 2633 establishes a program to raise funds for investment in the high-tech sector through the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority (BFTDA) and the Commonwealth Life Science Greenhouses.
Why worry about selling to the market when you can sell to a politician?
The program will provide funding for investments by auctioning off deferred insurance premium tax credits at a reduced rate to insurance companies that pay tax in the Commonwealth.
Why don’t they do that to give a tax cut to the citizens? Or pay off some of our crushing debt which would lower the tax-funded interest payments? Or just forget all that and cut the insurance tax which will cut insurance rates for those in this state?
The capital will then be used to make investments in Pennsylvania-based, high-growth, technology-oriented businesses through life science business incubators and the BFTDA that oversees the regional Ben Franklin Partners.
IOW, it will give money to people who know politicians.
Neighboring states of New York, Ohio, New Jersey and Maryland already have programs to encourage investment in high-tech industries.
And look how they are booming. Pennsylvania might actually be doing the best of this particularly sorry lot. Thank you, frackers.
The House Finance Committee, Senate Finance Committee and the Select Committee on Property Tax Reform will hold a joint public hearing, 10 a.m., this morning, Oct. 1, where the Commonwealth’s Independent Fiscal Office and the Pennsylvania Realtors Association will both present reports analyzing the Property Tax Independence Act (House Bill 1776/Senate Bill 1400).
The bills would end the ability of school districts to tax real estate and replace the funding mechanism with either a income or sales tax which would be collected locally. The bills, however, do include a state Education Tax that would deposit money into the state’s Education Stabilization Fund.
The reports are intended to analyze the fiscal construction of the bill and determine if the proposed revenue streams (primarily the state personal income tax and state sales tax) would be able to replace the dollars currently generated by school district property taxes, said State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129), who is the House bill’s sponsor.
Depending on what the reports conclude, an amendment may be offered to tweak the proposals while adhering to their ultimate goal of replacing school district property taxes.
The hearing can be viewed at Cox’s website.