Republicans Stall Penna. Minimum Wage Increase Again, 4th Time in 4 Weeks

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Just back from the legislature’s February-March break, Pennsylvania’s Assembly Appropriations Committee unanamously approved sending the minimum wage bill (H.B. 2021) to the full House for a final vote. Then, after the Committee adjourned, Chairman Brett Feese pulled it back, using a maneuver to reconsider the bill. It’s now four consecutive legislative weeks that Committee Republicans [...]

The National Children’s Study

Friday, September 30th, 2005

I don’t normally blog about work here, but this one made it to the paper, so I might as well toot my own horn a little bit (not that I had anything to do with winnning approval for this grant…but still). The federal government yesterday launched its most ambitious study ever of the health of [...]