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Post-Gazette Editorial: Sour note: The opera makes an ill-timed bow to the governor
5/12/2012
Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Opera last weekend finished its production of Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio," which involves the adventures of a young Spanish nobleman, his lover and their servants, who are kidnapped and placed into the service of a pasha (a person of high rank in Turkey).

PA Dems Ding "Tea Party Tom Smith" (Watch Video)
5/4/2012
PoliticsPA

For months as the GOP Senate candidates held forums, debates and made TV appearances across Pennsylvania. The PA Dems tracked almost every one, and today unveiled a compilation of clips of nominee Tom Smith's Tea Party past.

Freindly Fire: Cocky Corbett takes it on chin
4/27/2012
The Delaware County Daily Times

“Stevie Welch sat on a wall (of cards); Stevie Welch had a great fall (winning a mere two of 67 counties). All of King (or is it Joker?) Corbett’s horses (jackasses), and all the King’s men (endorsements by 27 County Commissioners and 35 State Legislators), couldn’t put Stevie’s candidacy together again (4 of 5 Republican voters rejected the Welch-Corbett-Obama “ticket”).

Education needed on the value of education
3/22/2012
The Daily Review

As he heads to Europe this week on a trade mission to promote Pennsylvania business, Gov. Tom Corbett's eagerness to blithely slash funding for universities raises the question of whether he sees higher education as a component of the commonwealth's global competitiveness.

 

Lining up at Center City DMV - some to get voter IDs, others to protest the new law
3/22/2012
Philadelphia Inquirer

The queues were long at PennDot's Center City motor vehicle office Wednesday as prospective voters lined up for free photo IDs, promised as part of a new state law requiring voters to show identification at the polls.

'Close your eyes' context couldn't be more clear
3/20/2012
Public Opinion

Journalism is all about context, so we get pretty steamed when people wrongly cite context in an attempt to spin their way out of an especially stupid public comment.

Inquirer Editorial: Court acts in voters' interests
3/7/2012
Philadelphia Inquirer

Bloated with power yet seemingly void of leadership, the Pennsylvania Republican Party can't figure out how to get what it wants with reapportionment.

Voter photo ID bill heads to Senate floor
3/6/2012
Post-Gazette

HARRISBURG -- Pennsylvania voters could get a new question at the upcoming primary elections, as a bill requiring photo identification at the polls heads to a Senate vote.

GOP leader talks against higher education cuts
2/28/2012
Post-Gazette

A top state Senate Republican is pushing back against the governor's proposed cuts for higher education, arguing on Monday for restoring funds for Pennsylvania's state-related colleges.

Pitt, Pa. Dems talk budget, Republican primaries
2/24/2012
The Pitt News

Gov. Tom Corbett’s recently proposed $27.4 billion state budget shows that both he and the state Republican Party are out of touch with reality, a member of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party told a group of students Thursday evening. Jim Burn, chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, spoke to a group of about 20 students in the Barco Law Building for a conference held by the Pitt College Democrats. At the hour-long conference, Burn talked about his stance on Corbett’s proposed 30 percent cut to Pitt’s state funding, as well as the national Republican Party.

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