STATE COLLEGE — Healthcare workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center are heading into mid-week of a five-day strike as over 900 union members look for a better agreement. “Union staff at Mount Nittany Medical Center are currently on strike for quality care and quality jobs, as well as ...
State Sen. Christine Tartaglione (D-Philadelphia) rises at the end of every legislative session with one message for lawmakers. “It’s been 7,309 days since Pennsylvania last raised the minimum wage,” she said at the end of the session on July 12, immediately after the legislature passed this year’s budget without a wage increase. “This year marked 20 years — 20 years — since Pennsylvania last raised its minimum wage,” Tartaglione told the chamber. “Twenty years of rising rent, rising grocery bills, rising utility costs, rising healthcare expenses. Twenty years in ...
HARRISBURG — A broadband grant program that the Trump administration abruptly canceled last year can be restored without language that allowed race to be used as a factor in awarding funding, a federal judge has ruled. In a case challenging the program’s termination, U.S. District Judge John Bates agreed with federal officials that the underlying law is unconstitutional, because it allowed grants to be awarded based on “explicit racial classification.” But he also said the program was “perfectly capable” of functioning without this element. “Common sense,” Bates ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Paige Cognetti is taking a shot at artificial intelligence data centers in her challenge to freshman Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan, saying “we are not for sale” in a new TV ad in a swing Pennsylvania congressional district where communities are fighting data center projects. The race between Cognetti, the mayor of Scranton, and Bresnahan is considered one of the Democratic Party’s best opportunities to pick up a seat in the November election in its bid to take control of the U.S. House and block President Donald Trump’s agenda. Cognetti is ...
RENOVO — It was a morning of education and an afternoon of music and friendship as The Greater Renovo Area Heritage Park combined their annual Heritage Days with a Good Neighbor Festival in hopes of raising money and lifting the spirits of a great friend to Heritage Park. The highlight ...
FLEMINGTON — Flemington Borough Council handled a number of items at its recent meeting, including the conditional approval for the next phase of a proposed senior housing expansion. Council unanimously granted conditional approval for both the subdivision and land development plans associated with the proposed Flemington Manor senior housing expansion. The project would add a new 46-unit senior housing building adjacent to the existing Susquehannock Heights complex. Engineer Chad Schaffer, of Stahl Shaffer Engineering, presented updated plans, explaining the development would ...
