NEW YORK — If Martha Stewart had her way, Kmart could have been KMartha.

The home goods mogul said she regrets not buying Kmart before a deal with the discount chain went sour.

“We thought about buying it, but we didn't do it, and we should have,” Stewart said in an interview with The Associated Press. “That could have been our store — KMartha!”

Stewart said another executive at Martha Stewart Living was “less bold” than she was and was against a buyout. “We'd have a fantastic chain of stores right now,” she said.

A spokesman for Sears Holding Corp., the Hoffman Estates, Illinois-based company that owns Kmart, declined to comment.

For more than a decade, Kmart sold Martha Stewart-branded furniture, towels and other home decor. The partnership unraveled and the companies parted ways in 2009. Now, Martha Stewart products are sold at several stores, including home improvement retailer Home Depot, department store chain Macy's and craft retailer Michaels.

HARRISBURG — Republicans in the Pennsylvania state Senate are advancing legislation that would weaken the ability of public-sector labor unions to collect full dues and political action committee contributions from members' paychecks.The GOP-controlled Senate cast a 26-23 preliminary vote Tuesday on the legislation. All 19 Democrats and four southeastern Pennsylvania Republicans opposed it.A final vote was expected Wednesday. Passage in the Republican-controlled House would still be necessary, but Gov. Tom Wolf has previously said that he opposes the idea.The bill would bar the state, school districts and local government employers from deducting any portion of union dues that underwrite political activity and union political action committee contributions from the paychecks of unionized workers.Only deductions that pay for contract negotiation costs and other non-political activity would be allowed.

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