Written by By: Andrea Sears PHILADELPHIA – Banning ads about controversial issues is a violation of free-speech rights – that’s the claim of a lawsuit filed against the nation’s sixth-largest public transit system. The Center for Investigative Reporting has compiled data showing racial disparities in home mortgage lending in 61 American cities, including Philadelphia. But when it sought to […]
PHOTO CAPTION: Pictured from left to right at Owen J Roberts Middle School: Dylan Woodgate (3rd Place), Zach Evans (1st Place) and Jacob Evans (Honorable Mention). Pictured at Fred S. Engle Middle School: Mathea Dunn (2nd Place). WEST CHESTER, PA – The Chester County Tobacco-Free Coalition and the Chester County Health Department recently selected three middle […]
Levittown, Bucks County, PA – Truman High School will host Share the Keys a Parent/Teen safe driving presentation on Thursday April 26th at 5:15 p.m. Presented by NJM Insurance Company in partnership with the Pennsylvania DUI Association, the research-based course is designed to educate parent and teen about Pennsylvania’s Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) laws and emphasizes the importance of parental involvement […]
By: Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. – A statewide partnership launched a major effort Tuesday to help protect rivers and streams by planting 10 million trees in the state by the end of 2025. Trees planted next to streets and waterways form natural buffers to keep sediment and pollutants from reaching the water. The Keystone State […]
Harrisburg, PA – Governor Tom Wolf was joined today by Acting State Police Commissioner Lt. Col. Robert Evanchick, legislators and stakeholders to urge passage of commonsense gun safety legislation, including background checks on all gun purchases in Pennsylvania. “All of Pennsylvania’s citizens have the right to live happy, healthy lives free from fear about their and […]
Harrisburg, PA – The Wolf Administration today joined in a streamside tree planting event at a farm in Lancaster County to kick off a local, state, and federal partnership to plant 10 million trees to improve water quality in Pennsylvania’s part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Patrick McDonnell, Department of […]
Harrisburg, PA – Today, Secretary Leslie S. Richards announced that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has obtained certification from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for its rail transit State Safety Oversight (SSO) programs to meet a new federal requirement in advance of the April 2019 deadline. Under newly established federal law, states with rail transit […]
By: Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. — Environmental groups say changes proposed by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt would gut federal coal-ash regulations put in place in 2015. Coal ash contains toxic pollutants such as arsenic, lead and radioactive elements, many of which have no federal maximum contaminant level for drinking water. According to Lisa […]
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