Minimum Wage Rally

Minimum Wage Rally

A wage rally was held Today at the Webster’s Bookstore Cafe in State College. At the rally activists business owners and leaders called on state legislature to raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania to $15 dollars an hour. Those in attendance were State Senator Art...
PA Spent Funds To Remove Outdated Voter Registrations In Recent Years

PA Spent Funds To Remove Outdated Voter Registrations In Recent Years

Pennsylvania has spent nearly half a million dollars over the past six years to find and remove outdated registrations from its voter database, a process Senate Republicans now want to take up in a partisan-driven review at added expense to taxpayers. In the weeks...
Sen. Haywood’s Office Hosts Electoral Redistricting Workshop

Sen. Haywood’s Office Hosts Electoral Redistricting Workshop

ABINGTON, PA — The office of state Sen. Art Haywood is inviting members of the public to attend an online education workshop for those interested in learning about legislative redistricting. Haywood’s office will host the virtual program Wednesday from 6:15 p.m....
Chestnut Hill Hospital receives State grant for infrastructure upgrades

Chestnut Hill Hospital receives State grant for infrastructure upgrades

Chestnut Hill Hospital received a $500,000 grant from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP). The bulk of the money will go into a $1 million project to replace the HVAC unit on the main building. The hospital, a member of Tower Health, was allocated the...
Legislators take an educational trip on the Delaware

Legislators take an educational trip on the Delaware

There’s probably no better place to learn about water than on the water. With that thought in mind, state legislators, Delaware River Basin Commission members and others took to the river in the tall ship Kalmar Nyckel September 10 on an educational excursion aimed at...
Opinion: Biden infrastructure plan lead pipe remediation

Opinion: Biden infrastructure plan lead pipe remediation

Every family in Pennsylvania deserves access to clean, safe drinking water. Unfortunately, in many parts of our commonwealth, particularly in communities in Southeastern Pennsylvania with older infrastructure, we are still struggling to fulfill that...
Pennsylvania senators return from summer recess ready to get to work

Pennsylvania senators return from summer recess ready to get to work

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s state senators are back from summer recess and they’re getting right to work, joining the state representatives who returned on Monday. From election reform to mask mandates, everything appears to be on the table, but now one...