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HARRISBURG -- Gov. Tom Corbett said yesterday that he wants lawmakers to pass legislation this year authorizing the sale of state liquor stores to private operators because they're not a core function of government. Hours after Corbett spoke to the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, a leader of the union that represents most employees of 620 state stores argued that they do a better job of collecting taxes and preventing underage drinking than private businesses would.
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The County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania wants the state to consider adding a small fee to citations and court costs to help cover the rising costs of human service programs. On Tuesday, commissioners from across the state unanimously passed a resolution supporting the legislature granting authority to individual counties to add a small fee to certain fines and court filing fees that would be designated to support the programs.
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According to a blog by Rosemary L. Gido, a professor of criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "As 2006 begins, prisons large and small, rural and urban, struggle to house and separate, find and habilitate pretrial and sentenced, local, state and federal detainees and inmates ... using a model that has largely never worked." The County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania is calling for a statutory change requiring more convicts to be sent to state rather than county lock-ups. But the state system is already full. So, what's the answer? In California it's to build more prisons. I figure that Pennsylvania will follow suit. In Pennsylvania, we also experienced a cancerous growth of prisons. Sixteen of the state's 26 prisons have been built since 1986, 10 since 1993. The n...
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HARRISBURG -- Gov. Tom Corbett said today he wants lawmakers to pass legislation this year authorizing sale of the state liquor stores to a private operator, and indicated a study of divestiture is getting under way. Corbett spoke to the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania this morning.
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... Governor Corbett's Proposed County-Level Impact Fee. On October 3, 2011, Governor C...On October 18, 2011, the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania (the "Association") is...
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The liability insurance premium for Fayette County government through the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania is increasing by $98,000 for 2010, putting insurance expenses about $40,000 over the county's estimates. County commissioners accepted a $459,478 premium in voting Thursday to renew their participation in the Pennsylvania Counties Risk Pool program, which they joined in 2000.
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S. Rep. Mark Critz, D-Johnstown, hired Greene County Commissioner Dave Coder as his deputy district director. Coder, who has served on the board since 1995, resigned effective July 2. According to county law, the Court of Common Pleas judges will appoint someone to fill his unexpired term. An election for his seat will take place next year. Coder has served as chairman of the board of commissioners and was president of the County Commissioner Association of Pennsylvania.
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Staff Writer In the face of declining funding from the state government, Elizabethtown Public Library's executive director last summer proposed closing the library for one week.
...That's the type of state requirement county commissioners here and across the state want relie... for 2011 by County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania. "Outdated and unnecessary mandate...
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Changing a stream such as Irwin Run has minimal impact on rivers and lakes, but those changes can add up in terms of discharging pollutants, Louis Kaplan, a senior research scientist at the Stroud Water Research Center in Chester County. Protecting the nation's biggest rivers and lakes depends on guarding the smallest creeks feeding them, the Environmental Protection Agency said in an argument to bolster its right to oversee headwaters.
... farmer and vice president of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. On the website explaining its proposa..., executive director of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, said the federal gove...
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Staff Writer jbrubaker@lnpnews.com
... Martin walks the hallways of Lancaster County Prison, he sees too many prisoners. Three men are ... says Martin, chairman of the county commissioners and the prison board, "is the number of people in ...By the early 2000s, most prisons in Pennsylvania were packed. The County Commissioners Association ...
