SF GATE / AP: The Pennsylvania state government’s unprecedented takeover of its capital is scheduled to end Saturday, after more than two years and hundreds of millions of dollars in deals designed to rescue Harrisburg’s finances from a sea of debt…
City officials said they hoped the state had learned lessons from the experience. Even though many Harrisburg officials had objected to the state’s takeover, they ultimately won a better deal for the city after council members rejected earlier state recovery plans that did not require concessions from lenders and would have left the city with significant debts…
On Wednesday, Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse said the attorney general’s office is undertaking a “comprehensive investigation.” Joe Peters, a spokesman for Attorney General Kathleen Kane, would only say that the office had received a referral of the matter last year from Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico…. (more)
