DOYLESTOWN, PA — Doylestown has received a significant grant for a major development project in town.
A $1.5 million grant disbursed by the state be used to acquire and build a huge new municipal complex in the borough, according to State Sen. Steve Santarsiero (D-10). The complex will be located at what is currently the PennDOT maintenance facility at North Broad Street and Doyle Street.
Rep. Wendy Ullman, D-143, announced last week the borough will use the money “to acquire and redevelop” the existing Broad Street PennDOT facility.
Doylestown Borough’s plans to turn the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Broad Street office into a new borough hall continues moving forward with a $1.5 million state grant.
NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP >> The Newtown Business Association officially welcomed two new businesses to the township on April 27 with a pair of ribbon cutting ceremonies.
Members of the NBA, along with state and local officials, were on hand to celebrate the recent opening of the Newtown Cleaners at the Newtown Shopping Center on West Road and Turning Point Restaurant at the Village of Newtown Shopping Center.
Democrats in Harrisburg and Congress this week delivered several efforts aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions. The measures face significant hurdles without bipartisan support, although Republicans were not completely opposed. Bucks Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick was one of three Republicans to support a measure in the House.
Former Gov. Ed Rendell and Judge Marjorie Rendell offer a challenge to fourth- and fifth-graders in five Philadelphia area counties.
Buckingham Elementary School Linda Raitt’s fifth-grade class competed in a Citizenship Challenge offered by the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement in December 2018.
Back in 2004 when I was a member of the state House of Representatives, I worked with former Republican state Sen. Ted Erickson to enact the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (AEPS), which provide incentives to bring more clean electric power generation online in Pennsylvania.
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday that Pennsylvania will join 23 other states in the U.S. Climate Alliance pledging to meet the goals spelled out in the United Nations’ 2016 Paris Agreement.
The Alliance formed after President Donald Trump announced in 2017 that the United States was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.
Governor Tom Wolf was joined today by Representative Steve McCarter, Senator Steve Santarsiero, Senator Jay Costa, Representative Frank Dermody, Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Patrick McDonnell, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn, and members of the Climate Caucus to announce Pennsylvania’s membership in the U.S. Climate Alliance and release the state’s new climate action plan
NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP >> The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) has awarded the township a $40,000 matching grant to help with long-term financial and budgetary planning.
At the April 24 meeting, the board of supervisors announced the state grant, as well as formally executing the contract with the DCED for the money.
The Station Taphouse in Dolyestown Borough was packed with environmentalists and area residents Thursday evening to talk with local lawmakers about upcoming green legislation.
Sen. Steve Santarsiero, D-10, of Lower Makefield, and Rep. Wendy Ullman, D-143, of Plumstead, took questions and met with constituents along with statewide environmental advocate group PennEnvironment.
The debate over Pennsylvania’s proposed $500 million nuclear rescue package pits the natural gas and nuclear industries in an epic struggle between the state’s two energy giants. But renewable power advocates believe they hold the swing vote in a tight battle, and they want a seat at the table.
Sen. Steve Santarsiero and about a dozen volunteers from his office and the public cleaned litter and cut away at invasive plant species in Tyler State Park on Monday afternoon.
About a dozen people, including one state lawmaker from Lower Makefield, helped clear litter and invasive plants from Neshaminy Creek through Tyler State Park for Earth Day on Monday.
Multiple efforts underway at the Pennsylvania statehouse would authorize speed radar use by local police.
In 2017, Senators voted in favor of nearly identical legislation. The bill failed to win support in the House.
Pennsylvania is the only state in the country that prohibits municipal police from enforcing speed limits with radar. Since 1961, only state troopers are allowed to use radar.
HARRISBURG, PA — State Reps. Carolyn T. Comitta, D-Chester, and Steve McCarter, D-Montgomery, recently joined state Sens. Art Haywood, Thomas H. Killion and Steven J. Santarsiero to call attention to climate change, its grave impacts and the urgent need to modernize the commonwealth’s renewable energy standards.
NEWTOWN, PA — Newtown is getting a decent grant thanks to State Sen. Steven Santarsiero and State Rep. Perry Warren.
The two representatives announced the state Department of Community and Economic Development is awarding a $40,000 grant to Newtown.
In 1913, the American Association of University Women published its first study on equal pay in the workplace.
More than 100 years later, members of the advocacy organization are still fighting the same battle.
“Obviously, we are not easily deterred,” Barbara Price, co-chair of public policy for AAUW’s Pennsylvania chapter, said on April 8.
HARRISBURG − Art Haywood (D-4) along with State Senators Steven J. Santarsiero (D-10), Thomas H. Killion (R-9), and state Representatives Steve McCarter (D-154) and Carolyn Comitta (D-156), were joined by renewable energy advocates in the Main Capitol Rotunda recently to express their support for expanding the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act (AEPS).
WEST CHESTER—At a Capitol news conference, state Reps. Carolyn T. Comitta, D-Chester, and Steve McCarter, D-Montgomery, joined state Sens. Art Haywood, Thomas H. Killion and Steven J. Santarsiero to call attention to climate change, its grave impacts and the urgent need to modernize the commonwealth’s renewable energy standards.
HARRISBURG, PA — Senator Tim Kearney and his four freshman Senate colleagues – Senators Lindsey Williams, Katie Muth, Steve Santarsiero, and Maria Collett – were joined by almost all members of the Senate Democrats in introducing legislation to abolish the statute of limitations for sexual abuse, assault, and misconduct.
“I wanted to get to Harrisburg to amplify the voices of those who’ve gone unheard for far too long,” said Senator Kearney. “Trauma does not have an expiration date. We will not limit survivors’ opportunities to seek justice.”
State Sen. Steve Santarsiero, announced New Britain Borough Wilma Quinlan Nature Preserve Committee and Newtown Creek Coalition as the Bucks County winners of the 2019 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence.
The New Britain Borough Wilma Quinlan Nature Preserve Committee project focused on habitat restoration at the nature preserve. Project volunteers carried out a three-year project to clear out invasive species, install nesting boxes, redesign trails to prevent erosion, conduct a soil study, install benches, and plant 386 native trees, 119 native shrubs, and wildflowers.
Bipartisan bills introduced in the General Assembly on Wednesday would require 30 percent of Pennsylvania’s energy to come from renewal sources, including 10 percent from solar power.
Pennsylvania used to be a leader in bringing renewable energy to the state’s power grid, but lawmakers said Wednesday the commonwealth is “lagging behind” its neighbors now.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s battle over giving now-adult victims of child sexual abuse another chance to sue their perpetrators or institutions that may have covered it up returned to the Senate on Wednesday, as competing bills landed in the chamber.
The movement comes six months after wider legislation to lift criminal and civil limitations on child sexual abuse cases collapsed in the Senate in the wake of a fresh Roman Catholic church scandal that spurred victims to lobby in the Capitol’s corridors.
A group of Pennsylvania lawmakers declared Wednesday that the “Green Dogs” intend to be players in the big energy policy poker game taking place at the state Capitol this spring.
A series of bills currently proposed in the Pennsylvania state legislature would eliminate or modify the statute of limitations for the prosecution of sexual crimes.
There are a pair of bills in the House, HB 962 and HB 963, which are together called the Pennsylvania Hidden Predator Act. There’s also a new piece of related legislation in the Senate that will be formally introduced Wednesday.
A rally is set for Monday in Harrisburg in support of proposed legislation to update Pennsylvania’s Equal Pay Law, which remains unchanged since 1959. The changes will help fix a “broken” wage system that backers say has allowed a gender pay gap to affect the earning rights of female workers.
Calls to reform Pennsylvania’s equal pay law are coming from lawmakers in the state House and Senate, and will be heard during a rally in Harrisburg on Monday.
