HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s budget is late for the fifth year in a row. The Republicans who control the state Senate sent their members home on the Tuesday deadline without a deal, and said in a statement that the week’s talks had given them “necessary clarity on many outstanding ...
LOCK HAVEN — One chapter has closed and another opened as long-time Clinton County United Way Board President Jason Walker steps away from the role and welcomed its first woman into the leadership position, Jaimee Kester. Walker was the longest serving president, holding the title for 10 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — New Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said Wednesday that the central bank would remain independent and seek to bring down inflation, likely foreclosing the rate cuts President Donald Trump has sought. In remarks at a central bank conference in Sintra, Portugal, Warsh said that if businesses or households thought the Fed would accept inflation above 2%, “I guess they’d be disappointed. We’re going to deliver price stability.” The Fed typically combats inflation by raising borrowing costs. When asked about Trump’s oft-repeated desire for lower rates, ...
Tuesday marked 20 years to the date since Pennsylvania lawmakers last raised the state’s minimum wage. That was to $7.15 in 2006. In the state Senate, the Republican majority voted unanimously to kill a Democratic-led effort to vote on raising it to $15 an hour with an annual cost of living increase. The effort to force the vote was proposed by Minority Leader Jay Costa (D-Allegheny). The arcane procedural move effectively called a vote on whether to vote to bring a bill that passed the House to the floor. It’s one of the few tools members of the minority party have to force ...
Technology that maximizes the efficiency of power lines could chip away at rising electricity bills, advocates of legislation promoting innovation by utility companies say. About 5% of the electricity produced in the United States is lost as a result of inefficiencies in the transmission and ...
The Bland J. Rossman Veterans of Foreign Wars of Lock Haven recently donated a new flag pole near the J. Doyle Corman Amphitheatre. The pole, which is 50 feet tall, cost $9,000 with concrete donated by Harger Utility Charities and equipment donated by Harger Utility Contractors and Action ...
