Stack to Tackle Home Invasions During Friday Press Conference
HARRISBURG, May 16, 2013 — State Sen. Mike Stack will join Rep. John Sabatina, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey at 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 17, for a press conference to push legislation that would make home invasion a new category of crime. If Sabatina’s House Bill 1296 is approved, [...]
PHILADELPHIA, May 13, 2013 – State Sen. Mike Stack today said Gov. Tom Corbett needs to put the brakes on changes to an education testing plan that creates huge unfunded mandates for school districts and could prevent many highly qualified high school students from graduating. The Common Core standards, as the Pennsylvania Department of Education [...]
PHILADELPHIA, May 8, 2013 – A Northeast Philadelphia pharmaceutical contract manufacturing company will be able to add more than a dozen new jobs with the help of a $472,500 state loan, state Sen. Michael J. Stack announced today. Medical Products Laboratories Inc., 9990 Global Road, Philadelphia, is expected to create 14 jobs and retain 148 [...]
HARRISBURG, May 1, 2013 — Following numerous news reports about Gov. Tom Corbett lumping unemployed Pennsylvanians with drug addicts during a recent radio interview, Sen. Mike Stack (D-Philadelphia) issued the following statement: “Gov. Corbett is regurgitating disparaging and unproven rumors as gospel truth. His statement about rampant drug abuse by unemployed Pennsylvanians and this abuse [...]
HARRISBURG, April 29, 2013 — Legislation that would help Pennsylvania’s unemployed military veterans get back to work as civilians needs legislative attention now, Sen. Mike Stack and Rep. Bryan Barbin said today. The Democratic lawmakers encouraged the Senate to move now on bills that would establish the “Vets First Tax Credit” program and provide a [...]
Stack, Barbin to Push Bills Encouraging Employers to Hire Veterans
HARRISBURG, April 25, 2013 — State Sen. Mike Stack and Rep. Bryan Barbin will tout the merits of legislation at 10:30 a.m., April 29, in the Capitol Rotunda, Harrisburg, that would provide employers with tax credits when they hire veterans. Senate Bill 468 is the companion bill that Stack introduced but is awaiting action in [...]
Stack to Hear Testimony Thursday on ‘flat sentencing’
PHILADELPHIA, April 23, 2013 — State Sen. Mike Stack will co-chair a Senate Judiciary Committee public hearing at 10 a.m., Thursday, April 25, at the Philadelphia Bar Association on a specific type of sentencing. Flat – or determinate – sentencing often leaves the families of convicted offenders in the dark about how long their relative [...]
HARRISBURG, April 18, 2013 — With a united Democratic Caucus behind him, state Sen. Mike Stack introduced legislation today that would restore health insurance for working Pennsylvanians by reviving the popular adultBasic program and returning funding to a medical assistance fund. Stack (D-Philadelphia) said Senate Bill 870 would restore adultBasic using half of the tobacco [...]
Harrisburg, April 17, 2013 – Senate Democrats’ 2013-14 budget priorities are heavily weighted toward job creation, education investments, strengthening the social-services safety net, modernizing liquor sales and refocusing Pennsylvania’s business tax menu to help small businesses, they announced today at a Capitol news conference. Senate Democratic Leader Jay Costa (D-Allegheny) said that Senate Democrats will go [...]
Stack to Join Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for Boyle Playground Renovations
PHILADELPHIA, April 17, 2013 — State Sen. Mike Stack will join in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 4 p.m., Thursday, April 18, at the Officer Daniel Boyle Memorial Recreation Center playground, 13024 Stevens Road, Philadelphia. More than $500,000 worth of renovations have been made to the playground, including new play equipment, a more water-friendly spray area, [...]
