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The Delaware County Council recently voted to approve its 2019 budget, which decreases property taxes and reduces expenses by approximately $2.2 million overall.
The council approved a general fund...
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Aqua America Inc. recently announced that its Pennsylvania subsidiary acquired the approximately 1,250-connection wastewater assets of East Bradford Township, Chester County for $5 million.
The acq...
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Auditor General Eugene DePasquale recently released his most recent performance audit of the Port Authority of Allegheny County, which found that the Port Authority’s 97 bus routes are on schedule 6...
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New Rhein Healthcare Investors, an international private equity firm, recently announced that it is moving its global headquarters from Chicago to Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia headquarters is in ...
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The Dauphin County Commissioners approved Wednesday a $247 million budget for 2019, which includes no property tax increases for the 14th year in a row.
“We never forget that the taxpayers are re...
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PharmaCann Penn Plant -- a part of PharmaCann, a medical cannabis business with dispensaries and cultivation facilities in Illinois and New York -- recently purchased 18 acres from the Scranton Lackaw...
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Commonwealth Charter Academy (CCA), a Pennsylvania public cyber charter school, officially unveiled Tuesday its educational aquaponics facility, the largest such facility in the country, at its Capita...
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Aro Biotherapeutics, a Philadelphia biotechnology company, recently raised $13 million in start-up funding to develop and commercialize its next-generation protein drug platform, Centyrins.
Centyri...
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The Potter County Water Quality Work Group discussed at its meeting Monday environmental issues and monitoring of a major wind energy generation project in Hector and Harrison townships of Potter Coun...
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Skills in Scranton, in collaboration with the Lackawanna County Workforce Development Board, recently hosted an Educator in the Workplace immersion experience on logistics and transportation.
Educa...
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Insurance Department Consumer Liaison David Buono recently told Area Agency on Aging leaders they should educate seniors about the increased consumer protections around annuities established in Act 48...
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Tyler Technologies, Inc. announced Thursday that it signed an agreement with the Northern Tier consortium of Pennsylvania counties for a full suite of Tyler's New World public safety solutions.
The...
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Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) announced his support last week of the $20 million federal Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant recently awarded to Butler County.
The ...
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Stadium Casino, LLC, an affiliate of The Cordish Companies, presented plans to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board Wednesday for a proposed Category 4 satellite gaming facility at the Westmoreland M...
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PJM Interconnection, which operates the grid serving 65 million people in Pennsylvania, 12 other states and the District of Columbia, said Wednesday that the company and its members are prepared to me...
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Tech Air, a national distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related equipment and supplies, announced Tuesday that it acquired Collingdale, Pennsylvania-based Scully Welding Suppl...
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NFIB, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently filed an amicus brief challenging a Philadelphia ordinance prohibiting employers from asking job cand...
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The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners recently approved a $284.2 million county budget for next year.
The county remains in stable financial standing and maintains its AAA bond rating.
T...
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State Rep. Frank Burns (D-Cambria) recently announced that he would hold a town hall meeting to gather facts about a wind farm proposed by the Greater Johnstown Water Authority.
The meeting will be...
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently issued an opinion in the case of Dittman et al. v. the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), holding that an employer has a legal duty to use reasonab...
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