HARRISBURG POST-GAZETTE: As various Pennsylvania politicos schmoozed with business leaders, lobbyists and campaign strategists in the Big Apple last weekend, their unfinished work in Harrisburg stalked them along the cocktail circuit.
The agenda for the General Assembly’s remaining session days this week and next was a prominent conversation topic at the dozens of swanky receptions that bookended the annual Pennsylvania Society dinner.
The traditional New York gathering of political movers-and-shakers came as the fate of several policy proposals that Gov. Tom Corbett had hoped to sign by the end of his first year remained uncertain: Negotiations over a Marcellus Shale regulatory measure have yet to yield a compromise; his school reform plan has stalled; and some enthusiasm for privatizing state-run liquor sales has faded… (more)
