Robert M Tomlinson

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Well, here we are, starting one of the last working days before the Christmas interval. Hopefully you have all your shopping finished and you've laid in a sufficient supply of Curiously Strong Adult Beverages so......

It is against the law to use a cell phone while driving in Maryland, but it still is legal to pick up the devices and text once drivers cross the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania. Some of Pennsylvania's biggest cities ban texting while driving, but the...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. A key state Senate panel has advanced a proposed impact fee on Marcellus shale natural gas drillers, putting it in position for a vote later today, the Post-Gazette reports this morning. The changes to the......

The state Senate voted 36-13 this afternoon to make text-messaging by drivers a primary offense. The amendment by Sen. Jim Ferlo, D-Allegheny, goes into a bill sponsored by Sen. Robert M. Tomlinson, R-Bucks, that would have made both texting and......

Pennsylvania is laced with 11,000 miles of aging gas pipelines like the one implicated in the deadly Feb. 9 explosion in Allentown because legislators, regulators and gas companies haven't agreed on how to accelerate pipeline replacement -- a reform...

UGI officials told a state Senate panel in Allentown on Tuesday that the utility is satisfied with its 40-year timeline to replace cast-iron pipelines, some of which are a century old. A 12-inch cast-iron distribution line dating to 1928 is the prime...