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OPEN MINDS
March 19, 2018
On March 1, 2018, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that the state Medicaid program would waive prior authorization requirements for medication-assisted opioid addiction treatment (MAT). The announcement is part of the state's larger efforts to fight the heroin and opioid abuse epidemic.
Tribune-Review
March 16, 2018
A petition filed this week in Commonwealth Court alleges Democratic Lt. Gov. Mike Stack violated election rules by claiming he resides in his mother's home in Philadelphia when he actually lives in a state-owned mansion at Fort Indiantown Gap, near Harrisburg.
CNN
March 14, 2018
The race to watch: Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone is facing off against Democrat Conor Lamb. Why it matters: Republicans are hoping to prevent the district that Donald Trump won handily from falling into Democratic hands. March 13, 2018 8:05pm EDTÃâà...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
March 14, 2018
Four years after kicking an incumbent governor out of office, Pennsylvania's voters will head to the polls in 2018 to decide whether to give Gov. Tom Wolf another four years. Since Wolf, a Democrat, unseated Republican Tom Corbett in 2014, the nation elected a Republican, Donald Trump, to the WhiteÃâà...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
March 12, 2018
Pennsylvania GOP governor candidates won't show tax returns ... BETTER UNDERSTAND PA. .... HARRISBURG (AP) — The three Republicans running for the party's nomination for Pennsylvania governor say they will not release copies of their tax returns, documents that can shed important light on aÃâà...
WHYY
March 12, 2018
Republican candidates for governor of Pennsylvania (from left), Laura Ellsworth, Paul Mango, and Scott Wagner, participates in a debate at the National Constitution ... He is most prominently the president of the York-based waste hauler Penn Waste Inc., which reported $75 million in revenue last year.
Allentown Morning Call
March 6, 2018
The debate came as a lawsuit working its way through the courts contends that Pennsylvania state government has failed in its obligation to students, a case that could eventually have a dramatic effect on the shape of public education in the state. It also comes as West Virginia teachers are in a nine-dayÃâà...
Philly.com
March 6, 2018
Wagner said people shouldn't be fired or denied employment because of their gender identity or sexual orientation, and argued that businesses like Amazon wouldn't come to Pennsylvania if the state doesn't change the law. Ellsworth agreed that the state's antidiscrimination law needed to be updated toÃâà...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
March 2, 2018
Republican debate for Pa. governor's race confrontational between Wagner, Mango ... Later, Wagner — who started the $65 million York-based waster-hauler Penn Waste Inc. in 2000 — said "trust me, I'm far from an insider" and played up the waves he has made in the state Legislature since beating theÃâà...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
February 26, 2018
Scott Wagner kicked off his listening to Pennsylvania campaign at Penn Waste. ... HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner said Monday that he would pursue a mandatory death penalty for any school shooter ... Photos: Scott Wagner kicks off campaign for Pa. governor.
Vox
February 24, 2018
Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf had a hand in the process. After the old map was struck down, Republicans in the state legislature floated a new (similar-looking) map that Wolf vetoed on February 13. With the governor and the legislature unable to agree on a new map, the process was kickedÃâà...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
February 19, 2018
He's a wealthy York County businessman who's proud to call himself a garbage man, a candidate for Pennsylvania governor who is frequently compared to President Donald Trump, and a ... Wagner and Kinsley sold York Waste Disposal in 1997 and then opened up a competitor in 2000, Penn Waste.
ABC News
December 31, 1999
Rendell told hosts Jon Karl and Rick Klein that Lamb's strong performance against Republican Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District was a positive sign for Democratic candidates in red states. While the race remains too close to call, Lamb leads Saccone by several hundred votesÃâà...
WSKG.org
December 31, 1999
“Governor Wolf has repeatedly made clear he will not cut programs that hurt people or communities, like funds for transportation,” he said. “House Republicans failure to pass a commonsense shale tax forced the Governor to balance the budget through other actions, as required by the General Assembly.”.
WHYY
December 31, 1999
One thing I will not do is let people, by gender identity, come into our girls locker rooms at schools in the name of generating business in Pennsylvania. I'm going to keep our kids safe and secure. I'm not going to advance that bill, his bathroom bill, at all. That's a reference to an anti-LGBT discrimination billÃâà...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
December 31, 1999
Scott Wagner kicks off his campaign for governor Wednesday at his York County waste and recycling business, Penn Waste Inc., in East Manchester ... It's kind of, well, unsettling that a person seeking to govern the great state of Pennsylvania seems to be obsessed with something so incredibly stupid.
