Community leaders, supporters and local families gathered this week for an exclusive first look at the upcoming Kinzua Area Discovery Center during The Founder’s Play Lab, an interactive preview event celebrating early supporters and regional visionaries. The evening Tuesday highlighted ...
HARRISBURG – Whether planting a tree, installing a mailbox, building a deck, or beginning a larger construction project, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) is reminding Pennsylvanians that one simple step can help prevent injuries, protect essential services, and avoid costly damage: contact Pennsylvania One Call by dialing 811 before digging. Observed each year on Aug. 11 (8/11), National 811 Day serves as a reminder that safe excavation begins long before the first shovel enters the ground. A free request to have underground utility lines located and marked helps ...
U.S. Sens. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and John Fetterman (D-PA) introduced the Workforce Recovery and Resilience Act, bipartisan legislation to help communities hit hardest by the opioid and fentanyl crisis by recruiting, training, and strengthening the workforce needed to support addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery. The legislation modernizes the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, giving state and local workforce boards new tools to respond to the workforce impacts of substance use disorders, with opioids at the center of the crisis in Pennsylvania. “In Pennsylvania, ...
The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) received 445 Autism Sensory Aid Bags from the Collaborative Autism Movement (CAM), which partnered with Amazon to equip all PSP stations with at least five sensory aid bags. The bags were created to better support individuals with autism and other sensory ...
A group of state senators is drafting legislation that would allow Pennsylvania to opt into a federal tax credit program to help increase scholarships available for public and private schools to give out to students and their families. The group includes several Republicans and one ...
State Senate Democrats are taking aim at the rising cost of groceries in the commonwealth. The party’s Policy Committee recently held a hearing that examined the status of grocery affordability for Pennsylvanians and food production-related pressures including rising input costs such as ...
