PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS COLUMN: …”I ran because Pennsylvania couldn’t keep doing what it’s doing,” Wolf says, “I’m not here to mark time, tread water or use this as a stepping stone to anything else . . . I think I can make it better.”…
His budget calls for reduced property taxes, more sales taxes, cutting business taxes, hiking the minimum wage, freezing tuition at state universities and imposing a severance tax on natural gas…
The real tests for Wolf lie ahead, largely tied to whatever ultimately emerges as his first budget. But he’s off to a slightly better start than his predecessor: Franklin & Marshall polling says his job approval rating is 38 percent; Gov. Corbett’s rating around the same time in his first year was 31 percent… (more)
