The Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association (PFMA) recently released its list of state and federal regulatory priorities for 2019. The state list includes seven regulations PFMA supports and five ...
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Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh/Berks) introduced Wednesday House Bill 425, known as CareerBound, last month to address a lack of school-to-work programs. CareerBound, which would be administered by...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently completed its environmental assessment and concluded the benefits of the proposed Chrin Landfill expansion outweighs the harmful...
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A bill introduced Monday by state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D-Philadelphia) aims to protect the state’s cyber infrastructure from cyberattacks. The bill would create a Cybersecurity Innovation Comm...
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Beaver-based Beemac Logistics, a transportation and logistics provider, plans to open a new office on Pittsburgh’s North Shore. The approximately 10,000-square-foot office will be located in the...
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State Sen. Vincent J. Hughes (D-Philadelphia) said last week he plans to introduce two bills aimed at reducing the state’s poverty rates. “Poverty is real and its impact cuts across the ...
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The Robert Morris University School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science held a grand opening and ribbon cutting for its 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Laboratory Feb. 6. The 200,000-sq...
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Pennsylvania State University in fiscal year 2017 contributed more than $11.6 billion to the state’s economy and, directly and indirectly, supported more than 105,000 jobs, according to study by Da...
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The state House advanced last week legislation that would establish first-time homebuyers savings accounts. Pennsylvanians would be permitted to contribute $50,000 over a 10-year time period to th...
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Last year, the 11 Bridgeworks client companies earned nearly $7 million in revenue, a 50 percent spike from 2017, the Allentown Economic Development Corp. recently announced. The annual Incubator ...
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Construction crews lifted into place the final steel beam on the 79,000-square-foot AHN (Allegheny Health Network) Hempfield-Neighborhood Hospital in Greensburg Thursday. The fully licensed small-...
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Deist Industries, a family-owned manufacturer and fabricator of hauling products, recently purchased a vacant 60,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Crawford County. The company will...
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The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, a program that partners client companies with resources that help them prosper through innovation, was responsible for creating 480 ...
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Five Pennsylvania locations made the American Transportation Research Institute’s (ATRI) top 100 most congested bottlenecks for trucks in the United States. The locations are I-76 at I-676 in Ph...
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If three in 10 vehicles in Pennsylvania were electric, the state would gain nearly $2.8 billion in benefits, according to a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) plan. Benefits includ...
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The state Supreme Court recently agreed to suspend work on voiding medical malpractice reform. Work will stop until the court receives a report by the Legislative Finance and Budget Committee, acc...
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Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding unveiled last week the PA Farm Bill, which addresses the challenges the state’s agriculture industry faces by allocating $24 million in ad...
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After a more than 15-year delay, work is scheduled to begin on a project to connect the Seven Mountains area to the greater State College area. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDO...
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U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) recently cosponsored the Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act. The bill ensures employees nationwide would be guaranteed up to 12 weeks of paid family and m...
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PS Technology (PST) recently gave Penn State Altoona a $104,000 12-month equipment lease as an in-kind gift for its Rail Transportation Engineering (RTE) program. The equipment lease has an opport...
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