Pennsylvania
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NBC Survey Reveals Catholic Worker Views on Key Church Issues
An NBC survey of the Roman Catholic workforce, showed divided opinions on key issues, writes Chris Glorioso and Evan Atulberger for nbcphiladelphia.com. The survey was distributed to 32,000 employees in the Official Catholic Directory. Of those, 2,700 responded. Some, like Drexel Hill Rev. Eileen McCafferty DiGranco of St. Mary Magdalene Community, felt that progressive reforms…
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PA Minimum Wage Talks Intensify, Local Union President Warns Workers Deserve More
Talks on raising the minimum wage in Pennsylvania have heated up for the first time in a decade as Republicans attempt to get Gov. Tom Wolf to drop his efforts to extend overtime pay eligibility to tens of thousands of additional workers, writes Marc Levy for the NBC 10. Negotiators are faced with a November…
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Not Everybody Happy With Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board’s Record Profits
Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board has been posting record profits since it was allowed to implement flexible pricing, but not all lawmakers are happy about it, writes Katie Meyer for the witf.org. The board that regulates all the wine and spirits sales in the state has set its highest-ever sales record last year at $2.67 billion.…
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Sears Announces Another Round of Closing Stores, Montgomery Mall Location Among Them
The Sears store at the Montgomery Mall in North Wales is among nearly 100 Sears and Kmart locations nationwide that will shutter soon after the new year. Six of the stores are in Pennsylvania, writes Chris Ullery for The Intelligencer. “We will endeavor to create and deliver value through a strategic combination of our better-performing…
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Montgomery County Freshman State Senator at Forefront of Push for Menstrual Equity
Maria Collett, the Montgomery County Democratic freshman in the State Senate, is at the forefront of the push for menstrual equity in Pennsylvania, writes Maria Panaritis for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Collett was one of the women in the state legislature who took part in the menstrual equity rally last week. The goal was to bring…
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Local Attorneys Specializing in Cannabis Law Welcome New Hemp Regulations (video)
Local attorneys specializing in cannabis law have welcomed the recent federal government announcement on the launch of a U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program, writes Sam Wood for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The new program is a requirement of the 2018 Farm Bill and creates “a consistent regulatory framework around hemp production throughout the United States,” said…
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Penn State Man Helped Create Nittany Lion Shrine and Led WWII Engineers to Allied Victories
Col. David Pergrin, formerly of Delaware County, helped create the Nittany Lion Shrine and led one of the most decorated U.S. Army engineering units of World War II, reported news.psu.edu. Pergrin played for the Nittany Lions at Penn State. He headed the committee that commissioned Penn State’s stone sculpture of a Pennsylvania mountain lion, the…
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Firefighter Crisis Makes it to the State House; 23 Bills Introduced to Address Shortages
Helping emergency responders cope with the stress of their work is one of the actions being considered by the state legislature as it addresses a growing shortage of volunteer and career firefighters and EMS providers, writes Jan Murphy for pennlive.com. “How would you feel if you had a fire or an accident or a life-threatening…
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Legal Sale of Marijuana Could Be $1.6 Billion Industry in PA, Advocates Say
The legal sale of recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania could be a $1.6 billion industry, generating almost $600 million in revenue for the state’s general fund and creating 18,000 new jobs, according to information from a recent press conference, writes Kevin Tustin for the Daily Times. State Rep. Dave Delloso, (D-162) of Ridley Township has proposed…
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Spotted Lanternfly Research at Penn State gets Significant Funding Injection
Penn State has received a federal grant of $7.3 million that will be used for continued spotted lanternfly research and work toward developing strategies to combat the invasive pest, according to a staff report from the Penn State News. The grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will be…
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Local Officials Testify About State’s Shortage of Volunteer Firefighters, EMS Workers
Tax credits, a rewards program, and free state or community college were some incentives considered recently to attract more volunteer firefighters and EMS workers, writes Josh Popichak for SauconSource.com. Finding volunteer firefighters and EMS workers was the topic of a hearing called by State Sen. Tim Kearney and the Pennsylvania State Senate Democratic Policy Committee.…
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Gov. Wolf changes stance on recreational marijuana, calls for full legalization
Gov. Tom Wolf has changed his stance on recreational marijuana and has joined Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in calling for its full legalization in Pennsylvania, writes Jan Murphy for the Harrisburg Patriot-News. Wolf previously said he wanted to study the experience of the other 11 states and the District of Columbia that have passed laws…
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Pennsylvania Among Top Ten States With Highest Credit Card Debt
Pennsylvania is in the top ten states with the highest credit card debt in the nation, according to a recently published study by WalletHub. Americans started the year owing more than $1 trillion in credit card debt. While the first quarter of the year seemed promising, with consumers repaying around $38.2 billion, the second quarter…
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AG Shapiro announces joint effort to fight illegal robocalls
Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced that a coalition of 51 attorneys general reached an agreement with 12 major phone companies to fight illegal robocalls. The companies—AT&T, Bandwidth, CenturyLink, Charter, Comcast, Consolidated, Frontier, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon, and Windstream—have agreed to adopt eight principles targeted at improving prevention and enforcement of illegal robocalls. “Robocall scams…
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Should PA ‘carve out’ behavioral health from physical health or shift to ‘whole person’ model?
By Kimberly Palmiero and Ramesh Santanam For Public Source Two legislators are promoting a proposal to change the way thousands of the state’s most vulnerable people get services for mental illness and addiction treatment across the Commonwealth. At issue is how the state delivers health services to Medicaid recipients, and whether they should merge the program offering…
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PA state police seek horse donations
he Pennsylvania State Police is asking the community for donations of horses to support its mounted patrol unit. The department maintains a stable at the Academy in Hershey and relies on donations to fill a complement of 28 horses. The animals are deployed statewide for searches, crowd control, security, and patrol of remote areas. They…
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Insurance Department announces restitution for consumers in major annuity scam
Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman today said her department has gotten more than $117,000 in restitution for 25 Pennsylvania consumers victimized in a major annuity scam. “I am pleased we were able to recover this money for Pennsylvanians, many of them elderly, who were taken advantage of by two licensed insurance agents,” Altman said. “These agents…
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Education groups praise Governor Wolf’s charter reforms
Governor Tom Wolf took executive action last week to improve quality, transparency and accountability of Pennsylvania’s charter schools to control costs and improve outcomes for students. Immediately following the governor’s announcement, Sen. Pat Browne, Majority Appropriations Chairman, echoed his concerns and called for urgent action: “The Governor’s actions today are an indication of the seriousness of the…
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