Pa. state government employees are slowly returning to the office after pandemic year
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Remote working could be here to stay in some state agencies.
A year of telecommuting and Zoom calls has left some agencies thinking that more work days going forward may not need to be done inside a government office building.
Now that Gov. Tom Wolf has announced the lifting of his COVID-19 mitigation orders with the exception of the mask order in less than two weeks, pressure continues to build from Republican lawmakers to get government employees back to the office.
Harrisburg, Pa. – Governor Tom Wolf reiterated his commitment to phase out Pennsylvania’s gas tax. Phasing it out would require attention to other funding streams to support Pennsylvania s transportation network,
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Gov. Wolf reiterates commitment to phasing out PA s gas tax, appoints new bipartisan commission to develop funding recommendations
Pennsylvania has one of the largest state-owned transportation networks in the country, with nearly 40,000 miles of roads and over 25,400 bridges under its purview.
Credit: FOX43 Author: FOX43 Newsroom Updated: 1:37 PM EST March 12, 2021
HARRISBURG, Pa. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Friday reiterated his commitment to phase out the state s gas tax, which he said is becoming an unreliable source for funding Pennsylvania’s vast transportation network.
To make this possible and to further address the state’s transportation funding needs, the governor signed an Executive Order establishing the Transportation Revenue Options Commission, which will develop comprehensive funding recommendations for Pennsylvania’s large and aging infrastructure.
by Christen Smith, The Center Square | March 08, 2021 05:00 PM Print this article Pennsylvania Budget Secretary Jen Swails spent three hours defending Gov. Tom Wolf’s spending plan – a proposal many Republicans criticize as lofty and unrealistic – before the House Appropriations Committee this week.
The meeting concluded three weeks of hearings with different state agencies over how Wolf’s $37.8 billion proposal, partly funded by a 46% personal income tax increase on the top third of earners, would be spent. The governor’s concurrent call to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next seven years percolated to the surface of the hearing often.