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(Pa. Rep. John Sabatina is flanked by, L-R, DA Seth Williams, police commissioner Charles Ramsey, and Pa. Sen. Mike Stack. Credit: Paul Kurtz)

Pa. Legislators Visit Philadelphia With Proposal For New Home Invasion Penalties

Both lawmakers were joined at the police administration building by Philadelphia DA Seth Williams and police commissioner Charles Ramsey.

2013/05/17

(The Pennsylvania Capitol. Credit: Getty Images)

Pa. Lawmakers Want State To Refuse Obamacare’s Abortion Coverage

A state senate committee in Harrisburg has given its approval to a bill that would have Pennsylvania opt out of abortion coverage as part of the new federal health care law taking effect.

2013/04/10

(Philadelphia Traffic Court. Credit: CBS3)

Pa. Lawmakers Move Forward With Plan To Eliminate Philadelphia’s Traffic Court

One bill would eliminate Traffic Court in all but name only, transferring its functions to Municipal Court. The other measure would allow for an amendment to the state constitution to formally eliminate it.

2013/02/13

(Firefighters Local 22 president Bill Gault, right, Pa. state sen. Mike Stack, center, and AFL-CIO president Pat Eiding, left, talk with reporters at City Hall. Credit: Mike DeNardo)

Philadelphia Unions Urging Nutter to Abandon Firefighter Contract Appeals

You’re not fighting the police award, local labor leaders were asking Mayor Nutter today, so why are you continuing to fight the firefighters’ arbitration award?

2013/02/07

Construction Set To Begin on New Port Richmond Recreation Trail

This L-shaped extension will start at Monkevitch Playground, in the shadow of I-95, and go down past Pulaski Park to Lewis Street, wrapping around the fruit distribution center and city dump.

2012/10/22

Pa. State Sen. Mike Stack (D-Phila., left) talks with Tony Danza outside Phila. school district HQ on North Broad Street. (Credit: Mike DeNardo)

Tony Danza, Actor And Teacher, Blasts Cuts In Philadelphia Schools Budget

Actor and former Philadelphia public school teacher Tony Danza (at right in photo) is joining area lawmakers and union officials in denouncing budget cuts at Philadelphia schools.

2012/02/23

(Pa. state senators Andy Dinniman, Mike Stack, LeAnna Washington, and Larry Farnese. Credit: Mike DeNardo)

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Want Philadelphia School Reform Commission Abolished

“The last six months have been a debacle of planning, financial mismanagement, a leadership vacuum and a human resource crisis,” state senator Mike Stack says.

2011/08/31