Joe Conti

Say what you will about the controversial Joe Conti of Doylestown, he sure knows how to land on his feet — this time with a nice now-he's-out and now-he-isn't deal with the state Liquor Control Board. In 2005, then-state Sen. Conti, R-Bucks, had a...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The Pennsylvania Ethics Commission is investigating claims that three top officials at the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board accepted gifts and favors last year from vendors and other businesses with an interest...

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The state Department of Education has rejected a request to take control of the financially troubled Vitalisitc Therapeutic Charter School in the Lehigh Valley, our Mothership colleague Steve Esack reports this...

Gov. Tom Corbett said this morning that he doesn't see the need for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to have a chief executive officer and could move to eliminate the position as soon as he adds another appointee the agency's......

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The moribund debate over whether to privatize Pennsylvania's state-owned liquor stores may just have gotten a new lease on life. Citing a confidential report by the state Inspector General's Office, the Inquirer...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. With little new to report on the budget front, we begin this morning with some law and order news instead. Former state Sen. Jane Orie, R-Allegheny, will stay in jail while she appeals her public......

While the Republican-controlled state House tries to cobble together the votes to pass legislation privatizing Pennsylvania’s state-owned liquor stores, two top Republicans in the state Senate said Thursday that they’re focused on making the...

The Union That Represents ... ... more than 5,000 state liquor store employees has started running a radio ad in western Pennsylvania against the main architect of a plan to privatize the Prohibition Era system. The new spot by Local......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. For those of you already looking ahead to the first cocktail of the weekend, we begin this morning with some news from yesterday's House Liquor Control Committee hearing near Hershey. That's where Pennsylvania Liquor...

As Officials ... ... from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board made their annual budget pitch to the state Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday, more than one lawmaker on the panel said they didn’t want to dwell on the potential privatization of...

Officials from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board... ... pressed the case Tuesday for legislation that they say will make the agency more competitive – even as they fended off accusations they were giving legislators less-than-unbiased...

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board continues to come under fire by some state senators for signing a contract to spend $173,000 dollars on professional development training for it's more than 4,000 employees. Critics call it manners training, but board...