Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2007 No Comments »
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says that the final open records bill should be undertaken carefully:
“After each chamber passes its version of open-records legislation, a conference committee likely will produce a joint bill. By all means, this matter should move along. But there must be sufficient public scrutiny before a final vote. There should be no fine […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
On Thursday, the State Employees Retirement System revealed Joe Paterno’s salary: $512,664 according to the Patriot News, and after taking a look at what some other coaches make, he is an absolute bargain whose contributions to the school are numerous. Paterno seems to take a pretty low-key stance to all this - […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2007 No Comments »
The Chambersburg Public Opinion says that local government should be more open, citing two examples - one of an unlicensed-drive-since-1986 Shippensburg borough employee who regularly drove borough vehicles, and another where a Waynesboro School District student who was suspended a with district officials refusing to disclose why or for how long.
The Williamsport Sun-Gazette […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
The House State Government Committee moved HB 2072 out of committee with a unanimous vote before a packed hearing room today. The bill could be voted on by the House as early as Tuesday.
The Patriot-News, AP, and the Trib-Review have all posted their preliminary stories on the Senate’s passage of SB 1.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2007 No Comments »
The only no vote? Senator Vince Fumo.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday, the Senate approved amendments to SB 1 and is expected to vote on the final passage of the bill today, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
The Patriot-News did a great job on running down the list of what is and what’s not open in SB1:
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
A bill in the state Senate would revamp the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2007 No Comments »
A story in Thursday’s Centre Daily Times details the many steps that must be taken before SERS can release Penn State salary information. Remember, the ruling said that only salaries of Penn State employees participating in SERS are ruled as state employees - and the CDT had some interesting figures we haven’t seen anywhere […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2007 No Comments »
According to Capitolwire, the House State Government Comittee is scheduled to meet Wednesday on HB 2072. The Scranton Times-Tribune reports that the Senate may take up SB 1 for a floor vote this week, with “The expectation [that] each chamber will pass its own bill version, said House Deputy Speaker Josh Shapiro, D-Montgomery, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 26th, 2007 No Comments »
According to the Carlisle Sentinel, House Leadership “took the wounded bill [HB 443] and put it out of its misery,” and we have a new bill in its place in the House: HB 2072. The House comes back on Dec. 3, the Sentinel notes, and says that the break is “time citizens should […]
Posted in Open Records News on Nov 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
It’s traditional, right? But let’s do this passopenrecords.org-style!
Rather than Friday-morning quarterbacking, I thought I’d do a Friday roundup of the articles on the JoePa salary ruling.
Here’s the story in a nutshell: It all started five years ago when reporter Jan Murphy and the Harrisburg Patriot-News asked Penn State for the salaries […]