Smart Talk: F&M poll provides snapshot of issues; Kane latest; First Pennsylvanians

What to look for on Smart Talk Friday August 28, 2015:

Fifty-four percent of Pennsylvania voters hold the state legislature responsible for the two-month-old state budget stalemate.  That’s according to the latest Franklin and Marshall College Poll released this week.  At the same time, 29% blame Gov. Tom Wolf for holding up final passage of a spending plan.

F&M pollster and political analyst, Dr. G. Terry Madonna has more of the poll’s findings on Friday’s Smart Talk.

At a preliminary hearing earlier this week, a judge determined there was enough evidence for Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane to be tried on charges of leaking secret grand jury information and then lying about it under oath.  Later in the week, pornographic emails between former prosecutors, investigators, and others in the A-G’s office were released.  Kane has said the people who sent those emails and wanted to keep their involvement quiet are behind the charges against her. 

Angela Couloumbis of the Philadelphia Inquirer is one of the journalists who broke many of the stories related to Kane’s activities appears on Friday’s Smart Talk.

For those interested in native Americans in Pennsylvania, archaeology and anthropology, a new book has been published that is like a museum on paper.  It’s called First Pennsylvanians: The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania.

One of the book’s co-authors, Dr. Kurt Carr, Senior Curator of Archaeology at the State Museum of Pennsylvania joins us.