J.D. Prose, USA TODAY Network - PA State Capitol Bureau
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar will leave her job Friday after “human error” led to her department failing to advertise a constitutional amendment that would retroactively give child sex abuse victims more time to file civil suits.
Gov. Tom Wolf announced Boockvar’s resignation Monday morning because of the error, which forces the constitutional amendment process to start over.
“This change at the Department of State has nothing to do with the administration of the 2020 election, which was fair and accurate,” said Wolf, preemptively knocking down any speculation that Republican criticism over her handling of the election was a factor in Boockvar’s resignation.
As new year begins, questions for Schenectady’s $10M Downtown Revitalization Initiative remain unanswered | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY The year has been rough for downtown Schenectady, where restaurants and bars have been battered by stop-and-go restrictions and Proctors remains shuttered.
But even amid the pandemic, the city passed a major hurdle on how to spend $10 million in state grant funds awarded last fall as part of the Schenectady Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI), the effort designed to spur broader economic investment between downtown and Mohawk Harbor.
With the year coming to an end, and the state facing an $8.7 billion projected budget shortfall, an announcement on which projects, if any, will be greenlit by the state remains forthcoming.