DeWeese and Veon were the only two state representatives who voted against repealing the pay raise lawmakers gave themselves in 2005. They have also been among the chief supporters of casino gambling in Pennsylvania and were important ...

DeWeese and Veon, the only two nitwits to vote against repealing the 2005 legislative pay raise (before DeWeese caved and left Veon hanging), are probably being named because of allegations they paid taxpayer-funded bonuses to their ...

That case was chucked out by a federal judge, who erroneously claimed the issue was made moot when the pay raises passed in 2005 were rescinded after a public outcry. However, the Supreme Court later ruled that the while the Legislature ...

The 17-page suit cites an allegation by an unnamed senator that Cappy told legislators of one particular caucus during a meeting that "he needed the pay raise to secure the votes of Republican justices" on cases important to them. ...

After statewide outrage, the pay raise was repealed that November. The surplus money is still subject to shell games, though. For example, the audit says the General Assembly surplus shrank from $215 million in 2005-06 to $211 million ...

Veon was voted out of office in November 2006 after being the lone lawmaker in the state to vote against repealing the 2005 legislative pay raise. He filed to lobby on behalf of Lionsgate six months later, but state records say he ...

One thing I'll never understand, is why did the 2005 pay raise cause such a public outrage that it was later repealed, but no groundswell can seemingly beat back the 2004 slots law, which was similarly passed in the middle of the night ...

Two years after voters threw Mike Veon out of office in anger for the 2005 legislative pay raise, which he was the lone representative to vote against repealing, Veon is just one of 834 registered lobbyists roaming the halls in ...

William DeWeese were the only two representatives to vote against repealing the 2005 legislative pay raise. Veon, a former Democratic whip, got cracked when he lost his re-election bid in the fall of 2006, despite spending $2 million, ...

It was rammed through using some of the same tricks employed to pass the 2004 slots law and the now-repealed 2005 legislative pay raise. Even when the new regulations are finally enacted, they won't require lobbyists to say specifically ...

Government reform activist Gene Stilp, who became famous for floating a giant inflatable pink pig in Harrisburg after the 2005 legislative pay raise, has ended his candidacy for the 104th state House seat in Dauphin County, ...

It's being pushed by House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese and my guess is it will see moonlight sometime between July 2 and July 4, because that's how both the slots law and the 2005 legislative pay raise were rammed into law and down the ...

He wasn't about the 2005 pay raise legislators gave themselves and got chucked out of office by voters. The money aside, DeNaples' indictment should throw open the whole way the slots parlor law was rammed down our throats in the first ...

Former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor candidate and anti-legislative pay raise activist Gene Stilp has found another way to get under the skin of state lawmakers. He wants to join them. Stilp told the Harrisburg Patriot-News he's ...

(Making an early pay raise is never second best.) 4. despite the Legislature. 5. into the giant pothole on the INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE Turnpike. 6. like a snowball at an Eagles game. (An oldie but a goodie, documented by former ...

Keeping with the goal of a unified judicial system, the building will unite court operations that have been located in seven ZIP codes in the Harrisburg area.

While many West Virginians employed in the private sector endure pay freezes and reduced benefits, some state government employees clamor for $1,000 raises for all state workers.

LYNN - Councilor-at-large Judith Flanagan Kennedy declared her candidacy for mayor Friday, launching a sticker campaign after weeks of soul searching.

Chad Crockford, 27, still splurges on going out with friends on the weekends, entrance fees for road races and the wedding he and his fiancee have planned for next year. But he says he's stopped going out to eat, cut back on grocery spending and doesn't go to movie theaters. Like many Americans, Crockford, a lawyer with Legal Aid of North Carolina, is saving more because of the recession. He ...

HARRISBURG - Throughout the lengthy state budget battle, the expectation has been the Legislature would turn over part of its $200 million surplus to help bridge a $3.3 billion state revenue deficit from the previous fiscal year. The budget bill initial

-- Frank LaGrotta used to be somebody.

Some freedoms are granted and others are won. More than 40 years before America's Declaration of Independence, more than 50 years before our constitution was adopted or the Bill of Rights amended it, there was freedom of the press.

With approval ratings dipping to near the all-time low levels that followed the 2005 pay raise, state legislators might have to watch their backs next year.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dwight Evans, D-Philadelphia, recessed the House / Senate conference committee meetings indefinitely today shortly after a midday call from Gov. Ed Rendell.

As Examiner colleague Susan Ferrechio showed today, many in the Senate are expressing new hope for a compromise health plan that that includes state-level, participant-owned health care co-operatives but not a new national health insurance plan.