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Franklin L. Kury served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate from 1966 through 1980 as a leader in the enactment of governmental reform and environmental protection legislation.
Introduction
Prologue:1701-1954
Part One: Getting There, 1952-1966
Chapter 1: Getting Ready
Chapter 2: Cracking Gibralter, the Lark "Machine"
Chapter 3: Running for the House
Part Two: The House of Representatives, 1967-1972
Chapter 4: The Education of a Freshman
Chapter 5: Absentee Ballot Reform
Chapter 6: Ballot Box Reform in Northumberland County
Chapter 7: Clean Streams and the Enviromental Revolution
Chapter 8: The Enviromental Amendment to the State Constituion
Chpater 9: The Bridge at Sunbury
Part Three: The State Senate, 1973-1980
Chapter 10: Defying Gravity — Going to the Senate
Chapter 11: The Senate Is Not the House
Chapter 12: Senate Confirmation of the Governor's Appointments
Chapter 13: The "Bloodless Coup" Bill and the Governor's Disability
Chapter 14: Righting a Listing Ship by Rewritting the Utility Law
Chapter 15: Our Rendezvous with Flood Disasters
Chapter 16: The Thornburgh Administration and Farewell
Part Four: Political Life after the Legislature and Reflections, 1980-2010
Chapter 17: Political Life after the Legislature
Chapter 18: Reflections
Photographs
End Notes
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
During a time when state and national attention is being given to drilling and fracking to mine gas, with claims of various kinds of pollution, a review of how one legislator affected the changes in how the state has to treat water only a few years ago may be of interest.
— Pennsylvania Magazine