PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Three years ago, Gov. Corbett declared he had rid Harrisburg of the long-decried perk: the so-called walking around money slipped each year into the budget for legislators to fund pet projects in their districts.
But skeptics believe the oft-criticized WAMs – or a thinly veiled equivalent – made a comeback last month in the $2.3 billion transportation funding plan the legislature approved and Corbett signed.
That is because in crafting the bill, lawmakers also made certain they gave themselves say over tens of millions of dollars of that money… (more)
