HARRISBURG -- In his classes at the University of Pittsburgh, political communications professor Jerry Shuster sometimes referred to Gov. Tom Corbett as "GIH," for governor in hiding, because people rarely saw him during budget negotiations. After lawmakers on June 30 adopted an on-time budget for the first time in nine years, closing a $4.2 billion deficit and cutting spending without raising taxes, Shuster said he couldn't argue with Corbett's success in fiscal matters. Still, he wasn't successful in pushing education reform or liquor store divestiture through a Republican-controlled Legislature, Shuster said.
When the 2011 Legislature is gaveled to order Tuesday, there will be a new governor, a new, more conservative House of Representatives and a chance of a new speaker of the House. But all present will face an old, familiar problem -- a gaping shortfall in the state budget. Both Gov. Susana Martinez and the Legislative Finance Committee have unveiled plans that would fund government without new taxes or layoffs of state workers. That means a new round of spending cuts and belt-tightening on top of pullbacks already forced by the recent economic recession.
NEW YORK | It was a practical choice, made for the sake of giving fans at Yankee Stadium something to watch before Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Friday night, but it carried a twinge of irony. On this night, when the New York Yankees took batting practice before their first ALCS game since 2004 and manager Joe Girardi's first contest this deep in the playoffs, the center-field scoreboard at Yankee Stadium didn't show the second-year manager - at least not while his team was on the field. It showed the Los Angeles Dodgers, who were playing Game 2 of the NLCS against Philadelphia, and Girardi's predecessor, Joe Torre.
MOONACHIE -- The first order of business for Moonachie's new mayor, Dennis Vaccaro, was to pay tribute to his predecessor, Fred Dressel, who served as mayor for 26 years -- a quarter of the town's history. He has built a great foundation for Moonachie," said Vaccaro, a project manager for a construction company. Dressel, 78, who decided earlier this year not to run again, got a standing ovation from the overflow crowd at Sunday's annual council reorganization.
When the bookstore now known as The Booksellers at Laurelwood was saved last year, book lovers rejoiced. Food lovers had less to celebrate, as Bront Bistro had become tired and all but irrelevant to anyone who cared about food instead of convenience.
The District's new fire chief has ordered members to use a patch with a pre-2007 department seal on their uniforms, reversing the phase-in of a Maltese eagle logo ordered under the city's former fire chief. Chief Kenneth B. Ellerbe picked the older patch as the sole symbol of the department in a general order issued last week. The patch, which features symbols for the fire service and emergency medical services, was in use before Chief Dennis L. Rubin's phase- in of the Maltese patch and is still on the order books for the department, D.C. fire spokesman Pete Piringer said.
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