At the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP)’s annual spring conference held recently in Harrisburg, commissioners from across Pennsylvania re-elected Dauphin County Commissioner ...
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Exelon Generation, which owns and operates the Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 1 nuclear energy facility near Harrisburg, Penn., recently filed the Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR...
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According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) State Electricity Profiles, from 2013 to 2017, Pennsylvania was the largest net exporter of electricity, while California was the largest...
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Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella, along with Sens. Pat Browne (R-Lehigh) and Art Haywood D-Montgomery and Reps. Matt Bradford (D-Montgomery), Mike Driscoll (D-Philadelphia) and Mike Peifer R-Pike/...
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The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) recently released its report on Uber’s driver background check process in Pennsylvania as well as Uber’s implementation plan and directed the comp...
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A recent report calls for Pennsylvania state and local officials to address the state’s looming transportation funding crisis. Transit agencies throughout the state have been notified state capi...
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Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry (PA Chamber) President and CEO Gene Barr issued a statement last week regarding a recent analysis from the Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) o...
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State Sen. Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) recently said he is pleased with Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella’s Private Sector Retirement Security Task Force’s findings on establishing ...
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Appalachian communities that have experienced economic growth since the Great Recession share a number of traits, researchers on the behalf of the Appalachian Regional Commission discovered. The r...
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Augmentir, a leading provider of enterprise software for industrial companies, recently launched its Augmented Operations platform. The platform combines enterprise augmented reality with artifici...
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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) recently released its small business scorecard for Pennsylvania for 2019. NFIB gave a grade of F for the mandatory sick leave bill recently i...
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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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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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In 2018, Pennsylvania accounted for 25 percent of growth in natural-gas power generation, 4.4 gigawatts, according to a report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Nineteen natural...
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The Lehigh Valley “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing?” awards ceremony was held Feb. 26 in Bethlehem. The ceremony honors students who participated in the WSCM program developed by Manufact...
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Site Selection magazine recently named Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley one of the top five fastest-growing regions with under a million people in the United States. It was also recognized as the fa...
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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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Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Patrick McDonnell said during a recent state hearing that natural gas has helped Pennsylvania to meet its Clean Power Plan goals. “We were ...
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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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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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