PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Column: … It’s the rush to the annual June 30 deadline, when Harrisburg decides how and where tax dollars are spent, what policies progress and what issues go back down the ever-munching maw of the Legislature for redigestion.
It’s an overhyped period of hopes.
This year, it features hopes that a state known for stasis suddenly ends its anachronistic alcohol monopoly, suddenly stops bleeding tax dollars for public pensions, suddenly invests in infrastructure long ignored and suddenly catapults a governor with sagging popularity into position for re-election… (more)
