The Daily Numbers (Pennsylvania Budget Edition): 27.3 billion dollar budget proposed yesterday by new Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett.
1 billion dollar cut in education funding in the state.
50 percent cut in funding for state-affiliated higher education at Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln.
10 percent cut, $550 million in funding for K-12 instruction in public schools.
1,500 Pa. employees who will be looking at pink slips under the Corbett plan.
0 new taxes, including no tax on extraction of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale region.
3 percent cut in spending overall.
7 percent increase in aid to the Department of Public Welfare.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Hard to believe that at one time Villanova was ranked among the Top 5 college basketball teams in the nation. They now might not make the NCAA Tourney after dropping a first-round Big East Tourney game to South Florida last night.
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I Don’t Get It: The archdiocese continues to bungle its response to the recent grand jury report. Yesterday they decided to place 21 priests on administrative leave who have credible allegations against them. But they are not naming them, and these same priests had their cases reviewed once before by the archdiocese and were cleared.
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Today’s Upper: It’s Ash Wednesday. Not sure about anyone else, but I have more than my share of things to repent for.
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Quote Box: “I know a lot of districts are crying poor, but we were poor before poor was popular.”
- William Penn School Board President Charlotte Hummel, reacting to the Corbett budget proposal.
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