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Study searches for power plants to be reactivated, looks at Lock Haven

Nearly two dozen former power plant sites across Pennsylvania are part of a study to identify potential locations for new generating facilities that could help ease the region’s power crunch. The study is being carried out with a $2 million U.S. Department of Energy grant awarded to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC). It’s being conducted by consulting firm KeyLogic Systems and the Electric Power Research Institute in a partnership between the PUC and the economic development nonprofit Team Pennsylvania. The goal is to narrow the list to five to seven sites with the ...

Sonic Ascension Records celebrates 10 years

This month, Sonic Ascension Records will mark its tenth anniversary of connecting people with the music they love and even discover some new tunes, and with that anniversary in mind, owner and operator looks back at his first decade in the business. “I was always a collector. Even from ...

3 board members appointed for Pennsylvania College of Technology

Three new Board members were appointed at a recent meeting of the Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors. The new appointees were approved by the Corporation for Penn State. Penn College is a special mission affiliate of Penn State with its own board of directors, president, curriculum and accreditation, according to a news release from the college. The new Penn College Board members are Robert Fenza, a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees; Ken Healy, executive vice president and director of engineering for PMF Industries Inc.; and Tracie L. Witter, key account ...

City attorney’s foundation weighs in on religious rights dispute

In mid-September the Rieders Foundation filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of petitioner in the case of Daniel Grand v. City of University Heights, Ohio. According to a news release from the foundation, the case concerned the right of Mr. Grand to hold a minyan, a Jewish prayer group, in his home, notwithstanding objections by zoning authorities. The right to pray, it was argued, is fundamental under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Rieders Foundation argued that in spite of the importance of appropriate zoning discretion, the City failed to provide any ...

Senators team up on ‘how to regulate AI’

U.S. Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick are finding common ground, once again, on a hot-button issue: AI regulation. “What is required is a clear, bipartisan, country-over-party assessment of the risks of AI, informed by three inescapable realities: the inevitability of the AI ...

Public-sector retirees to see pension raise

During a speech to AFSCME Chapter 13 retirees in Harrisburg on Monday, Gov. Josh Shapiro touted the first cost-of-living adjustment, known as COLA for short, in over 20 years for various public servants. “You represent really the best of the best, the people that make our world go round and round,” Shapiro said. “The people that make a difference in our communities: the bus drivers and the building engineers, the municipal workers in our boroughs, our townships, our communities, our cities-and the amazing employees that I get to work with every day, who make up the nearly 80,000 ...