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Dom Giordano Speaks To Gov. Corbett About Increase In Gas Prices Under Proposed Bill

WPHT’s Dom Giordano discussed Senate Bill One with the Governor Tom Corbett on Tuesday.

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Corbett Expects Compromise On Transportation Funding Bill

Governor Corbett in February proposed raising about $1.8 billion a year for roads, bridges and mass transit primarily by lifting the cap on gasoline taxes at the wholesale level.

2013/06/11

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Pa. Democrats Push For Vote On Medicaid Expansion

Democrats are vowing to take any opportunity to try to force a vote and one of those opportunities came in the state House yesterday. Democrats tried to offer a Medicaid amendment to the budget.

2013/06/11

Local Hispanic Leaders Give Corbett ‘Binder Full Of Latinos’

Local Hispanic leaders delivered “Binders full of Latinos” to Governor Tom Corbett’s Philadelphia office Friday.

2013/06/01

Corbett Challenged Over Moving Kids To Medicaid

Gov. Tom Corbett is pressing the federal government for an exemption that he said will prevent about 70,000 Pennsylvania children in a state-subsidized health insurance program from having to switch to Medicaid, although a public interest law center challenging Corbett’s claims said the children will be better off under Medicaid.

2013/05/31

EXCLUSIVE: Governor Corbett Speaks Out About Philadelphia School Budget Crisis

Eyewitness News spoke with Governor Tom Corbett after he attended a scheduled event in Montgomeryville, Montgomery County.

2013/05/31

Governor Tom Corbett pushes for resolution to transportation funding. (Credit: Tony Romeo)

Corbett Pushes For Transportation Funding

As Governor Corbett presses for action on proposals to raise new funding for roads, bridges, and mass transit, the focus continues to be on differences between the state House, Senate and governor on the issue.

2013/05/31

Corbett Asks For Public’s Help To Pass Agenda

Governor Corbett is appealing to the public to put pressure on lawmakers to enact key items of his agenda before they recess for summer.

2013/05/27

(Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett. File photo by Patrick Smith/ Getty Images)

Corbett Says Latino Comment Taken Out Of Context

Gov. Tom Corbett defended a comment he made last week that he had no Latinos on his staff, saying Wednesday that it had been taken out of context to hurt him politically.

2013/05/23

Judge To Decide In Several Weeks Whether To Throw Out Corbett’s Case Against NCAA

Governor Corbett’s lawsuit is an anti-trust suit, saying the NCAA violated its own rules in bringing sanctions against Penn State that have resulted in economic harm to Pennsylvania.

2013/05/21

(Gov. Tom Corbett. File photo by Tony Romeo)

Criticism Flares Around New Pa. Graduation Tests

It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov. Tom Corbett and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education to toughen academic achievement standards and tie them to graduation tests for the state’s roughly 1.7 million public and charter school students.

2013/05/18