PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: … [Gov. Tom] Corbett has been pounded from all sides for his decision to sue the NCAA over sanctions imposed on Pennsylvania State University football from the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal, reversing his previous public support for the penalties. And he has angered many in the legislature, including fellow Republicans, by awarding, with little consultation, a lottery-management contract to a British firm…
He has an ambitious punch list: privatizing the state liquor stores, which has touched off a war with the union representing the clerks; proposing a transportation spending package to repair roads and bridges; and tackling the costs of public-employee pensions, which consume a growing portion of the state budget. This, too, is a union minefield…
The lottery plan seemed to come up suddenly and to inspire opposition and criticism regardless of its possible merits…. (more)
