We feel we are covered by those elections and so does the Pennsylvania Department of State.

There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly.

We would have ended up with a dual system - optical scan plus electronic machine in each polling place for handicapped voters - and still had to buy the machines. We decided to replace the entire system.

We can live with the governor's (proposed) budget, even though it won't make us jubilant enough to dance in the streets. But, it's now in the hands of the legislators and they could really change it.

The reason is the costs for big trials went down.

There's a new look to it. We often get the question 'where do our tax dollars go' and this should help answer that question.