CBS 3 (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Gov. Ed Rendell and the politically divided Legislature finally signed off on a state budget Friday night, resolving a multibillion-dollar, recession-driven shortfall and ending Pennsylvania's 101-day budget stalemate, the nation's longest this year.
Politics on the Hudson (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Instead of betting cheesecakes and cheesesteaks, Gov. David Paterson and Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell are offering a free getaway contest to the state that wins the World Series. As the World Series starts tonight between the Yankees and Phillies, the inter-state wager calls for the state with the losing team to offer a weekend vacation to [...]
The Pittsburgh Business Times (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Financing Authority has approved $5 million for Pittsburgh-based Corridor Venture Partners, which is raising an early stage life sciences fund.Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell said in a statement that Corridor is expected to leverage an additional $15 million in private funds to be used to invest in six to eight early-stage life science companies in western...
Unbossed (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
Not the one we tend to think - the Governator - but the one who lost out last year on his attempt to privatize one of his state's major highways. The one whose state stillllllll does not have a budget. Just where is he, and who is he pallin' around with? Yes, where is Ed Rendell? He's a termed-out governor, so he obviously needs to be thinking about his next career now that the office of Governor...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward Rendell has appointed a Wayne County resident as the newest member to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's (PFBC) Boating Advisory Board.
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in e-Zone Electric Vehicle - Click above to enlarge Korean automaker CT&T, makers of the unusually-shaped e-zone neighborhood electric vehicle , intends to open two production, assembly and distribution facilities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, according to an announcement from Gov. Edward Rendell last week. The good news for the state is that there will be 400...
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
... then... Stephen Schwarzman [one of the Blackstone principals] gave $11,000 to Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell's races in 2002 and 2006, campaign finance records show. Pennsylvania's governors by law appoint six of the state pension board's 11 members. Blackstone's relationship with the Pennsylvania pension fund dates to at least 1994 and includes more than $2.8 billion in private-equity,...
