HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: Whether Mark Schwartz — the Bryn Mawr attorney hired by the City Council — can bring game-changing arguments to stave off a state takeover of Harrisburg by year’s end remains to be seen…
— Vowed a legal challenge to a bill now pending before the state Senate that could put Harrisburg and any other city that fails to adopt a fiscal recovery plan under the state’s Act 47 into state receivership.
Schwartz called the bill — which has been developed in tandem with Gov. Tom Corbett’s office and which Corbett has said he will sign — an “unprecedented power grab that ignores the Constitution.” It also amounts to an unfair change in the distressed municipality law after Harrisburg entered the process last fall, he said. … (more)
