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openPAgov.org is a transparency project, providing databases to look up public school salaries and labor contracts, public school spending, school property taxes, and public school performance. More datasets will be added in the future. To receive email alerts when we update openPAgov.org or add new data, sign up here.
All data in openPAgov.org is taken from Pennsylvania state government or federal government sources, and presented in user-friendly applications by VisiGov. First time users may find our tutorial helpful.
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Take Action allows you to easily and quickly make your voices heard on policy issues. It connects concern citizens to Congress, state legislators and media outlets through emails and letter-to-editors.
It also highlights pressing issues currently being debated in Harrisburg and provides background information and a convenient format for sending your concerns or encouragement to those who need to hear it most.
The Box is the official podcast of the Commonwealth Foundation.
Hear from the headliners, thinkers, and agitators as the Commonwealth Foundation tackles the hottest political and cultural issues of the day, gets answers directly from the source, and delivers a viewpoint you won't get anywhere else in talk radio.
PennsylvaniaVotes.org is the state's first and only web site that provides—at no cost—a nonpartisan, layman's description of every bill introduced in the General Assembly.
The site empowers users with several other important capabilities, including:
- Building a customized watch list of bills and issues.
- Receiving automatic updates when legislation of interest is introduced or voted on.
- Viewing a breakdown of roll call votes by party or individuals legislators.
- Creating a customized scorecard for legislators.
- Interfacing with each other to share thoughts on issues and legislation.
PennsylvaniaVotes.org will also allow citizens to find and organize the complete voting records of legislators and use search tools to find currently pending and passed legislation.
EnergyFactsPA provides a guide to the key energy and environmental issues facing Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has always been a leading provider of America's energy. From timber and coal to the nation's first commercial oil well, and now the Marcellus Shale boom, traditional energy is vital to our state's economy.
But these industries, and the prosperity that accompanied them, are now threatened because they have become politically unpopular. Instead of entrepreneurship and the responsible development of natural resources, today's energy companies are rewarded on the basis of their lobbying.
A Ten-Minute Citizen recognizes the need to invest 10 minutes a day, six days a week to protect freedom.
You don’t have to quit your job; you don’t even have to leave your home. You just have to commit to becoming a Ten-Minute Citizen!
What must a Ten-Minute Citizen do to make a difference?
Tweet Pennsylvania allows you to follow all the updates from Pennsylvania state legislators on Twitter at one source. For more updates from Pennsylvania lawmakers on Twitter, check out the full list.
