March 5, 2020Kalim A. Bhatti / Philadelphia InquirerPa. House drops ‘legislative privilege,’ will release lawmaker spending detailsby Brad Bumsted and Sam Janesch of The Caucus and Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PAThe announcement came more than a week after The Caucus and Spotlight PA revealed House lawyers had blacked out spending details in thousands of pages of records.
March 5, 2020JOSE F. MORENO / Staff PhotographerPa. Senate officials scrub details from financial records, raising alarm among open records advocatesby Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA and Brad Bumsted and Sam Janesch of The CaucusIn documents turned over to The Caucus and Spotlight PA, Senate officials edited out spending information, making it appear as though it never existed.
Feb. 27, 2020Kalim A. Bhatti / Philadelphia InquirerPa. lawmakers black out details of why they spent tax dollars, claiming ‘legislative privilege’by Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA and Brad Bumsted and Sam Janesch of The CaucusRedactions in thousands of pages of financial records primarily concealed who legislators were meeting with and why.
Dec. 19, 2019Kalim A. Bhatti/Philadelphia InquirerCanceled meetings and finger-pointing plague top Pa. economic development agencyby Charlotte KeithSome say backroom disputes between board members of the Commonwealth Financing Authority are delaying funding for projects.
Sept. 13, 2019Courtesy of PennLivePa. state legislators among the highest paid in U.S., but they’re doing less and less actual lawmakingby Liz Navratil, Spotlight PA & Jonathan Lai, Philadelphia Inquirer
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