Senate Transportation Committee Chairwoman Kim Ward (R- Westmoreland County) recently said she will create a legislative working group to address the major challenges facing the state’s transportat...
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Rep. Keith Greiner (R-Lancaster) recently introduced legislation to amend the recently expanded Pennsylvania Personal Income Tax withholding provisions applicable to nonresident nonemployee compensat...
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Gov. Tom Wolf outlined Wednesday in York how his Restore Pennsylvania plan will help the city and York County address blight. Restore Pennsylvania is an infrastructure initiative that would focus...
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State Sens. Vincent J. Hughes (D-Philadelphia/Montgomery), Katie Muth (D-Montgomery/Chester) and Lindsey Williams (D-Allegheny) recently revealed a plan to help students and their families pay down s...
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey rebounded in March to show an improvement in manufacturing conditions in the Mid-Atlantic region. Many of t...
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Sen. Katie Muth (D-Berks/Chester/Montgomery) announced Tuesday that she will introduce two bills to mandate safety and public awareness standards for pipeline construction and operation. “While ...
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The state House of Representatives recently advanced legislation introduced by state Sen. John DiSanto (R-15) that would ensure that public employees who commit job-related felonies lose their taxpay...
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House Bill 522, part of the eight bill Career and Technical Education legislative package, was approved recently by the state House of Representatives. The bill would establish the Career and Tech...
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The state House of Representatives advanced Monday a bill that would create the Pennsylvania Distilled Spirits Industry Promotion Board, which would be responsible for awarding grants to craft distil...
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The state House of Representatives advanced Monday a bill designed to encourage the development of startups in Pennsylvania downtown business communities. House Bill 324 would set up a process for...
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The Northeastern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center and Northeastern Pennsylvania Alliance (NEPA) recently presented McGregor Industries with a $200,000 loan through the NEPA Alliance Appalachia...
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Pipeline infrastructure development is an opportunity that the Commonwealth can’t afford to pass up, said State Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R-46) earlier today from the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Ha...
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U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) recently introduced legislation to expand the Federal Work-Study program to provide students with more opportunities to find jobs related to...
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Chester County Commissioners decried the pipeline emergency management plan they received from Sunoco, noting that large sections were blacked out for ‘security reasons.’ According to Mike Mur...
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Two recently introduced bills would improve transparency in the collective bargaining the process for government and school employees negotiating the salaries and benefits. Currently, government t...
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The Erie Federal Credit Union (Erie FCU) surpassed 60,000 members earlier this month. Erie FCU was founded in 1936 and is open to anyone who lives, works, worships or attends school in Erie or Cra...
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State Sen. John DiSanto (R-Dauphin/Perry) supports the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PennDOT) decision to drop its appeal of a January Commonwealth Court ruling. The ruling had r...
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State Sens. Art Haywood (D-Philadelphia), Thomas H. Killion (R- Chester and Delaware counties) and Steven J. Santarsiero (D-Bucks) plan to introduce legislation that would expand the Alternative Ener...
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The state House Labor and Industry Committee advanced an unemployment compensation reform bill Wednesday aimed at helping the hundreds of employees from the Joy Global plant in Franklin that closed i...
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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) introduced a bill Monday to strengthen the pediatric workforce within the healthcare industry. The Strengthening Our Pediatric Workforce Act would pr...
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