County exec Rich Fitzgerald gets the Rob Rogers treatment for his personnel moves on the editorial page today, and while Rob hasn't affixed him a juicebox quite yet, the P-G's fearless cartoonist added this warning shot online:

Allegheny County executive Rich Fitzgerald is on a tear! He is determined to have his hand in every agency under his purview. Heads have rolled to make that happen. I hope this is not just another example of a political ego cleaning house. I hope Fitzgerald plans to get good people and give them the freedom to work at least semi-independently.

We promise this post won't just be about the State of the Union address.

1. President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address, focusing on the economy but getting the most applause for his call to pass new gun control legislation. We did a Storify of social media during the event (doesn't the guy on the left in the first post look like Josh Lyman from The West Wing?). The New York Times has a neat web interactive letting you make your own mix-tape of the speech; the Washington Post has a nice recap page with stats galore.

2. And how 'bout Mark Rubio's awkward water bottle lunge? Amiright?

We'll keep our promise and move on after the jump.

Since before Gov. Tom Corbett went public with his pension proposal, lawmakers have been saying it appears Pennsylvania case law does not allow changes to retirement benefits for current employees.

In the days since, they've asked for an explanation of how the administration would show that its plan to lessen future benefits for current workers is permissible under a pair of Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions from the 1980s.

Soon, they'll get one. Mr. Corbett said today that "within the next few weeks" his administration will reveal its case for the constitutionality of his proposal.

"We're going to explain it to the Legislature in order to get it passed," he said.

A lot depends on that how that explanation goes over -- including the calculation of prospective pension benefits for 386,000 state and school workers and a $175 million savings from pension reform the administration is counting on in its upcoming budget.

Both Pa US Senators Pat Toomey and Bob Casey voted in favor of reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act today, which provides new domestic abuse protections for gays, lesbians, immigrants and Native American women.

All Democrats voted in favor of the reauthorization -- which must now go to the Republican-controlled House -- while 22 GOP Senators (or half GOP caucus) voted against it. Some, such as Florida's Marco Rubio, said they supported much of VAMA but said the new version took funding decisions away from the states and conferred too much power over U.S. citizens to Indian tribal governments. Toomey joined other Republicans in voting in favor of amendments to the bill that were shot down.

Conservative groups such as Heritage Action had urged a "no" vote and said they would be keeping score on the tallies.

The reauthorization now goes back to the House, which approved a different version than the Senate's last year.