The Force is strong with Casey Bassett.
In two years of feverish planning and laborious love, the 24-year-old has roughly tripled the size of his homegrown geek convention, Sci-Fi Valley Con, being held this year at the Jaffa Shrine in Altoona. Today is the 2013 convention’s final day.
Ann Wilson, chairwoman of the Republican Party of Cambria County, died on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013.
JOHNSTOWN —
Ann Wilson, the Republican Party of Cambria County chairwoman, died late Tuesday night.
She was 47.
At the time of her passing, Wilson was also serving on Johnstown City Council.
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A group of Republican lawmakers have unveiled a plan to use the money from selling off the liquor system to pay for road and bridge work.
An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise taxes and trim popular benefit programs, including Social Security and Medicare. Click here for an agency-by-agency breakdown of the plan.
Party leaders gear up for primary election season
The spring primary election May 21 may not be offering up big races such as president of the United States or governor of Pennsylvania, but Democratic and Republican leaders in Cambria County hope to motivate as many of their party members as possible to get out to the polls.
A state judge promised Wednesday to rule quickly about how jury commissioners should be handled in this year’s Pennsylvania elections now that the law that let 42 counties, including Cambria, abolish the office has been overturned.
Nearly 900,000 adults and children in Pennsylvania would be eligible for federal help to pay for health insurance through a marketplace that is supposed to start up next year, a health care advocacy group said Wednesday.
House OKs deep budget cuts
The Republican-controlled House passed a tea party-flavored budget plan Thursday that promises sharp cuts in safety-net programs for the poor and a clampdown on domestic agencies, in sharp contrast to less austere plans favored by President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies.
Phase-out of state liquor stores passes House
A Republican plan to phase out Pennsylvania's 600 state-operated liquor stores and raise millions in revenue by selling licenses to private businesses passed the House easily Thursday and was sent to the Senate.
Pa. is most generous to its governor, survey says
Apparently, it is better to be governor of Pennsylvania than any other state, if salary is any indication.
Two different surveys have found that the Pennsylvania governor's salary was the nation's highest in 2012, beating out states with higher populations and higher average incomes. It is even higher this year because of a 1995 state law that delivers annual pay raises tied to inflation for top executive branch officials, lawmakers and judges in Pennsylvania.
Committee OKs overhaul of Corbett liquor bill
A legislative panel on Monday endorsed a revamped version of Gov. Tom Corbett's liquor privatization bill that would give existing beer distributors first crack at liquor and wine licenses and expand the sale of wine in grocery stores.
Dem calling on Melvin to resign after conviction
A Democrat state lawmaker is calling on suspended Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin to resign over her conviction on campaign corruption charges.
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