Candidates for the proposed Home Rule Study Commission will host a public meet-and-greet and information session on May 9 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St. The free event is open to all residents and will provide an overview of Home Rule - a form of ...
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S.) Should voter registration applications be rejected if voters’ personal information doesn’t match government databases? The Pennsylvania Department of State ...
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania.) Lawmakers are renewing a push to end the practice of Pennsylvania counties diverting Social Security benefits owed to children in foster care into their own budgets, after new federal directives called on states to take action. An investigation published last year by Resolve Philly and Spotlight PA that analyzed four years of data found at least 1,300 children in Pennsylvania ...
When redistricting time arrives, the parties flip a coin and the winner picks one district and redraws it - then the other party picks a different district and redraws it - and then the first party goes again. And so on, until the whole process is done. That’s the essence of a new proposal from Pennsylvania Sen. Dan Laughlin to resolve the seemingly endless fights over redistricting - like this week’s blowup in Virginia. That situation was in the back of Laughlin’s mind as he issued a co-sponsor memo in the Legislature this week. “I don’t think any of these states ...
For the fourth year, a Human Resources Expo hosted by State Rep. Jamie Flick, R-South Williamsport, returned to Pennsylvania College of Technology last week. The topic of this year’s Speaker’s Series, entitled Opioid Addiction: Loss, Recovery and Hope, featured four highlighting the ...
State Rep. Jamie Flick, R-South Williamsport, held his fourth Human Services Expo at Pennsylvania College of Technology Thursday, bringing together roughly 80 vendors representing a number of community based disciplines. Prior to the start of the Expo, Flick was joined by House Human Services ...
