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 ...

cappy was way too involved with the pay raise issue, openly admitted to closed door discussions with top lawmakers, wrote opinion pieces for newspapers in favor of it and eventual had to recuse himself from the judicial pay raise case. ...

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After statewide outrage, the pay raise was repealed that November.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One thing I'll never understand, is why did the 2005 pay raise cause such a public outrage that it was later repealed, but no groundswell can seemingly beat back the 2004 slots law, which was similarly passed in the middle of the night ...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It was rammed through using some of the same tricks employed to pass the 2004 slots law and the now-repealed 2005 legislative pay raise.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 ...

street put on a big public show back in 2003 while he was running for re-election by vetoing a pay-raise bill that would have increased his salary from $146000 to $165000. city council then overrode his veto and approved the raise ...

HARRISBURG — House Speaker-designate Keith McCall and Majority Leader Todd Eachus are in line for substantial pay hikes due to their new positions.

At a time when the state is hurtling toward a billion-dollar plus deficit, Pennsylvania lawmakers and judges are line for a cost-of-living pay raise totaling almost three-percent.

Tempers flared as Hazleton Area school directors publicly released a final contract offer to unionized support staff Thursday night, with union members and school directors faulting one another for stalled negotiations.

>New Stanton council reinstated a secretary to full-time status Thursday after a bitter, acrimonious discussion that involved audience members castigating officials for demoting her in the first place and questioning their commitment to the growth of the borough.

The Senate's top leader said today that lawmakers should consider giving up the automatic 2.8 percent cost-of-living increase that would raise their base salaries to $78,315.

HARRISBURG — A legislative reform group called Tuesday for an ethics investigation to determine whether Sen. Robert Mellow’s recent appointment to the board of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania and a subsidiary is a conflict of interest.

Pennsylvania lawmakers have a scary budgetary hole to deal with in 2009. On Wednesday, they learned exactly how much more they'll be paid trying to plug it.

State Rep. Ron Miller, R-Jacobus, said the Pennsylvania House of Representatives isn't that different from a lot of other workplaces.

For the first time in seven years, a Lancaster County lawmaker will hold a leadership position in the state House of Representatives.The Democratic caucus Tuesday elected state Rep. Mike Sturla, a 10-term Democrat from Lancaster city, to chair the House Democratic Caucus' policy committee. The p...

LOOKS LIKE they're rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic today, by which I mean your lawmakers are picking leaders to steer your too-large, too-costly, under-investigation state House through its next round of scandals.