“As we near the four month mark without a state budget, the consequences are no longer looming – they are here,” said Brad Whitman, executive director at Northwest Tri-County IU5.
Tech companies have proposed building more than 20 of the power-hungry complexes around the state. Some advocates are seeking to control their growth through zoning.
Errors turn up in at least four counties. Officials note that there’s no way the extra votes could have been counted.
“Families are feeling the pressure, and so are the systems meant to support them,” said Elizabeth Zbinden, Food Program Manager with Bucks County Opportunity Council.
“Domestic violence victims and survivors count on the work of programs and shelters. They are essential services that need to be treated as such,” said PCADV’s Michael Waterloo.
As PA Senate Republicans hold the budget hostage, domestic violence shelters are forced to furlough staff and turn away victims putting Pennsylvanians at risk of injury or death.
Local Republicans voted against banning “ghost guns” and rejected a red flag law to keep firearms from individuals in crisis.
“Unfortunately, Senate Republicans have refused to agree to a long-term solution that provides certainty and does not also unfairly raid mass transit capital dollars for unrelated expenditures,” stated Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll.
Students and commuters have talked of needing to get up earlier to make time for longer commutes, unusually crowded buses and skipped stops.
“If you want to run a prosecutor’s office that’s really going to keep people safe, you need to be proactive and you need to be out there in the community,” said Khan.
Partisan politics takes a back seat as a community unites to protect its home from a solid waste recycling center.
Democratic candidate for sheriff Danny Ceisler said if elected he vows to “end this deportation partnership once and for all.”
“Donald Trump and his enablers have hurt working Americans, terrorized our immigrant communities, and overreached their constitutional authority,” said Indivisible Bucks County’s Laura Rose. “We must all stand up to this betrayal of American values and ensure the rights of all are upheld.”
Lawyers in both cases say the DOJ is weaponizing the government and its resources against a group of people it opposes politically.
