Misc. Thursday news bits

• The debate over restructuring of state taxes continues, with testimony heard in the state Senate from supporters and opponents of current versions being examined in Harrisburg.
  
  
• Open state House seats in Chester County may mean some competetive action there this year. Party affiliations there have been shifting, so both parties are quite interested in what happens this time around.
  
  
• Philadelphia City Councilman Kenney would like to see the Penn's Landing Corp. subject to state sunshine laws in its proceedings, and Stalberg of the Committee of Seventy agrees that it does the public's business and therefore should be open to public scrutiny.