Mark Hogan, 59, attended a forum on March 7, 2019, at North Star High School in Somerset County.
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Mark Hogan, 59, attended a forum on March 7, 2019, at North Star High School in Somerset County.
Ed Mahon / PA Post
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“Instead of taxing people, so they can get stoned and we can make money to pay the budget, let’s develop jobs. Let’s bring industry in,” a former state trooper said last week during a Somerset County forum on legalizing recreational marijuana.
I covered the event because I was curious to see what people in a rural county thought about marijuana legalization and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s 67-county tour.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman says he’ll do whatever he can to stop the legalization of recreational marijuana this session. That’s according to WHYY’s Bobby Allyn, whose story also described two Donald Trump voters with very different views on marijuana legalization.
The Lancaster County district attorney has threatened legal action against county commissioners there for alleged “defamatory statements” and “unlawful oversight,” WITF’s Rachel McDevitt and LNP report. The latest move is part of an ongoing dispute that involves assets seized in drug cases, more than $21,000 spent on leasing and maintaining a vehicle that the district attorney has used, and an open records case.
Speaking of open records, an overhaul of the state’s open records law took effect on Jan. 1, 2009. PennLive’s Jan Murphy took a look at the impact 10 years later.
Philly.com’s Claudia Vargas describes how overtime has boosted retirement checks for Philadelphia workers. One retired corrections officer, for example, collects an annual pension that is $30,000 more than his final salary.
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