Not much gets done in Harrisburg

Columnist John Baer laments the fact that nothing major was accomplished by the Pennsylvania Legislature as it prepares to take its two-month summer vacation.

From Baer's latest column in the Philadelphia Daily News:

Health insurance for 767,000 uninsured adults, most of whom work (which he actually proposed a year and a half ago) is not happening.

One-time $400 rebates to 475,000 lower-income working families to help with gas and groceries (forgot about that, eh?) was abandoned months ago.

Leasing the turnpike or tolling I-80 to pump half a billion dollars a year into road and bridge repair and $400 million a year into public transit, including SEPTA, is on hold.

And reforming redistricting, investing in biomedical research or saving $100 million a year by buying drugs in bulk for medical-assistance recipients all look deader than june bugs in a beetle trap.

Read the full column here.