Daily Archives: 1, February 2, 2010

“[Pennsylvania] hospitals [to care for] Haitian patients regardless of federal reimbursement, Rendell said”

Three Pittsburgh hospitals willing to accept injured Haitians

By Luis Fabregas
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Gov. Ed Rendell’s office lined up 11 hospitals, including three in Western Pennsylvania, to treat seriously injured Haitians if they are brought to the United States. Continue reading

Rendell warns “…budget pain felt by Pennsylvania in recent years can be expected to intensify.” Gov suggests raising personal income tax on Pennsylvania workers again, “…day of reckoning is coming.”

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Rendell sounds budget warning at Chamber of Commerce event

Philadelphia Business Journal – by Bernard Dagenais Staff Writer

Gov. Ed Rendell told a group of business leaders in Philadelphia Tuesday that the budget pain felt by Pennsylvania in recent years can be expected to intensify. Continue reading

“Representative Martin Causer (R – Cameron, Mckean, and Potter Counties) fired volleys of “sharp letters” at the Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner, Colonel Frank E. Pawlowski, demanding to know why Pawlowski did an end-run around both the Legislature and Attorney General to enact a de facto long gun registration rule.”

Pennsylvania state police back down on rifle registration scheme

January 31, 11:42 PM DC Gun Rights Examiner Mike Stollenwerk

In July of 2009, the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) mysteriously told federal gun dealers doing business in Pennsylvania that they were required to report to the PSP all purchasers’ identity and item serial number information for transfers of certain long gun “frames” or “receivers” for guns such as the popular AR-15 rifle, just like Pennsylvania’s Uniform Firearms Act (UFA) requires for handguns.  Some gun dealers told the State Police “no way,” noting that compliance with the State Police demarche constituted a criminal violation of the UFA. Continue reading

Pennsylvania State Police: 2 Florida men hauling 2 to 3 tons of marijuana on I-81

Pa.’s biggest pot bust made in Lebanon County

By CHRIS SHOLLY / Staff Writer Lebanon Daily News

Updated: 02/02/2010 02:47:28 PM EST

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania State Police at Harrisburg arrested two Florida men in Lebanon County after they were found to be hauling between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds of marijuana in the back of their tractor-trailer. Continue reading