Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts and the Philadelphia Bar Association host a forum with statewide judicial candidates at the Philadelphia Free Library.
Archives for October 2017
October 26: PA Judicial Candidates Forum
Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts and the Allegheny County Bar Association host a forum with statewide judicial candidates at the Koppers Building Conference Center in Pittsburgh. Judicial candidates featured at the forum include Dwayne Woodruff, Geoffrey Moulton, Deborah Kunselman, Carolyn Nichols, Wade Kagarise, Emil Giordano, and Irene Clark.
Journalists Roundtable: October 26, 2017
The final push to fund the $32 billion state spending plan ended Thursday morning with the passage of the final piece of the budget: a gambling expansion proposal. Video gaming terminals in truck stops, 10 satellite casinos and fantasy sports gaming will be legal in Pennsylvania. Those tracking this process – now four months overdue – now look to the governor to see how he will react to the bills headed to his desk. Also discussed was legislation calling on the Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority to be regulated by the state Public Utility Commission and the House State Government Committee held a hearing that revealed that 544 illegal votes had been cast in Pennsylvania over the last 18 years (out of 93 million votes during that time). This discovery caused former PA Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro Cortes to abruptly resign two weeks ago. Our guests this week are: Chris Comisac, Bureau Chief with Capitolwire.com; Marc Levy, with the Associated Press; and Liz Navratil, State Government Reporter with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Our host is Brian Lockman.
PA Books: The LaPorte Inheritance
A mostly forgotten episode of US history is brought to life in fascinating detail by historian and author Deborah deBilly dit Courville. Working from primary sources such as letters and household accounts, she has reconstructed the rhythm and rationale of daily life at the 18th century French immigrant colony along the Susquehanna River known as […]
PA Supreme Court Session from Oct. 18
Recorded 10-18-17 in Pittsburgh. Topics include: heart & lung workers’ compensation, sale of unused school property, unconventional natural gas well preliminary injunction, and health care provider disease reporting involving a fired health care employee with hepatitis who gets a job in another state and infects patients and whether there is a duty to report criminal behavior.
PA Supreme Court Session from Oct. 17
Recorded 10-17-17 in Pittsburgh. Topics include: the sovereign immunity real estate exception for state government and liability involving a PennDOT guardrail, trial court jury instructions and charge conferences with judges, contingency fees and how law firms should share a settlement when an attorney leaves one firm and the case moves to another law firm, workers’ compensation and recovery of attorney fees, and a media request for information about the 2014 Allegheny County Investigating Grand Jury and whether that information is covered by the open records law, specifically, if the request is moot after information about the grand jury is found on the Internet.
Republican Candidates for Governor Forum
The Montgomery County Republican Committee forum with candidates for Pennsylvania Governor Bluestone County Club in Blue Bell, PA. Republican candidates for Governor include Laura Ellsworth, Paul Mango, and PA Sen. Scott Wagner. Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.
Journalists Roundtable: October 19, 2017
The budget impasse is now in its fourth month. Budget negotiators drew closer to a compromise this week to fund the $32 billion General Fund budget with House passage of a Tax Code bill that relies heavily on borrowing and fund transfers. The House Finance Committee met to report a Marcellus shale severance tax bill to the full House Wednesday, the bipartisan vote was largely along regional lines. Also this week, Cong. Tom Marino withdrew his name from consideration as federal drug czar after investigative reports detailed his acceptance of campaign donations from drug companies and his sponsorship of a bill, now law, that affects the Drug Enforcement Agency’s ability to regulate opioids. Our guests this week are: Angela Couloumbis, State Government Reporter with the Philadelphia Inquirer; Steve Esack, Harrisburg Correspondent with the Allentown Morning Call, and John Finnerty, Harrisburg Bureau Chief for CNHI, which owns several Pennsylvania newspapers. Our host is Brian Lockman.
Focus on Aging Adults: Medicare Open Enrollment
On this month’s edition of Focus on Aging Adults, our guests will cover what Medicare recipients need to know if they want to make changes to their plan, and how to enroll if you are now eligible for Medicare.
PA Books: Therese Rocco: Pittsburgh’s First Female Assistant Police Chief
Therese Rocco is known to her colleagues as “The Rock.” At the age of nineteen, she began her career in law enforcement as a clerk in a small, all-female missing persons unit of the Pittsburgh Police Department. Her career ended nearly fifty years later as an honored and acclaimed Assistant Police Chief—the first woman in […]