Volunteers with the Morrisville Fire Co. might soon get a new 500-gallon engine purchased with $200,000 awarded in a state grant last week, three General Assembly members announced.
The company will buy a 2020 Pierce Arrow XT heavy duty rescue pumper with a 500-gallon tank and a 2,000 gallons-per-minute pump, the joint news release from Sen. Steve Santarsiero, D-10, Rep. Perry Warren, D-31, and Rep. John Galloway, D-140, states.
Volunteers with the Morrisville Fire Co. might soon get a new 500-gallon engine purchased with $200,000 awarded in a state grant last week, three General Assembly members announced.
The company will buy a 2020 Pierce Arrow XT heavy duty rescue pumper with a 500-gallon tank and a 2,000 gallons-per-minute pump, the joint news release from Sen. Steve Santarsiero, D-10, Rep. Perry Warren, D-31, and Rep. John Galloway, D-140, states.
April 2 marks Equal Pay Day in the United States, an occasion that calls attention to the fact that women in America earn less on average than men.
According to the National Committee on Pay Equity, the symbolic holiday indicates how long a woman has to work into 2019 to earn what an average man earned in 2018.
FALLS TOWNSHIP >> A Bucks County native who has been a volunteer firefighter for most of his life has been recognized as 2018’s Firefighter of the Year by the Yardley-Makefield Fire Company.
At its annual banquet and installation dinner held at Westaby Hall in Fairless Hills, the company honored its top responders for 2018, recognized its outstanding volunteers and remembered two of its fallen firefighters and its longtime chief engineer.
Senate Democrats on March 25 proposed legislation to reform the process and procedures of addressing sexual harassment claims, and foster a safe work environment in the General Assembly.
The #MeToo PA General Assembly Act would establish procedures for keeping investigatory, prosecutorial and adjudicatory functions separate, as required under state law; establish procedures for communicating temporary regulations that are necessary to promptly implement the new procedures; and combine current settlement provisions with new provisions relating to the source of payment, personal liability of elected officials and payment of awards.
The bill introduced by Sen. Maria Collett, D-12, of Ambler, would allow towns to prohibit firearms on municipal properties.
A proposed bill from a Montgomery County lawmaker would let towns ban firearms on public property without fear of a lawsuit from organizations like the National Rifle Association.
WEST CHESTER—Sen. Tom Killon (R-9) Thursday introduced new legislation, SB 30, to create a Pennsylvania state housing tax credit.
“This new tax credit will incentivize private investment in new and existing affordable housing in the Commonwealth,” said Sen. Tom Killion. “Affordable housing is an economic driver. It builds state and local tax bases, creates jobs, provides homes in proximity to workplaces, and revitalizes communities.”
The Wilma Quinlan Nature Preserve Committee and Newtown Creek Coalition are winners of the 2019 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence.
One group restored a hidden gem of a nature preserve in New Britain Borough. The other stabilized the banks of the Newtown Creek, along with a piece of Bucks County’s colonial history.
BUCKS COUNTY >> The New Britain Borough Wilma Quinlan Nature Preserve Committee and the Newtown Creek Coalition have been named the Bucks County winners of the 2019 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence.
State Sens. Art Haywood (D-Philadelphia), Thomas H. Killion (R- Chester and Delaware counties) and Steven J. Santarsiero (D-Bucks) plan to introduce legislation that would expand the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act (AEPS).
The latest bill to allow municipal police in Pennsylvania to use radar was introduced Wednesday in Harrisburg, a day after Lancaster City Council passed a resolution calling for such legislation.
Sponsored by state Sen. Steven Santarsiero, a Democrat from Bucks County, its co-sponsors include state Sen. Ryan Aument of Lancaster County.
Pennsylvania is the only state in the country which doesn’t allow its municipal police officers to use radar guns.
A newly proposed state senate bill wants to end the era of Keystone State exceptionalism on the matter.
State Sen. Steve Santarsiero and Rockhill Quarry attorney Robert Gundlach Jr. exchanged contentious letters with the DEP over the controversial Rockhill Quarry. Gundlach accused Santarsiero of disregarding facts while making demands to the DEP, while Santarsiero said the DEP is conducting its own investigation.
An assortment of local and state officials made several stops in Bucks and Northampton counties Friday afternoon, including in the Washington Crossing Historic and Delaware Canal state parks, where they said flooding, wear and tear had strained infrastructure. Some said Gov. Tom Wolf’s “Restore Pennsylvania” initiative, which calls for investments in “green infrastructure,” is key to the fixes.
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In light of the one year anniversary of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that occurred February 14 in Parkland, Florida, Democratic State Sen. Steve Santarsiero, Democratic State Rep. Perry Warren, and former State Rep. Helen Tai joined students and gun safety advocates in front of Council Rock North High School in Newtown Township to call for the passage of legislation advocating for the safe storage of firearms.
The grant for the regional chapter of Operation Homefront, administered through the state’s Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, will provide financial aid for area veterans in need.
A $10,000 grant administered by the state’s Department of Military and Veterans Affairs will go to a regional chapter Operation Homefront, according to a news release from two state lawmakers.
State Sen. Steve Santarsiero, minority chair of the Senate Communications and Technology Committee, announced the award of computer science grant funding for Council Rock, Central Bucks, and Pennridge school districts.
State and local officials have high hopes a mobile lab will bolster interests in technical fields for area students.
The Bucks County Intermediate Unit No. 22 hosted a meeting Monday at its offices in Doylestown Township where state and area officials discussed how a planned mobile fabrication lab purchase will impact area students.
Current and former state lawmakers and Council Rock North students said it is imperative for elected officials in Harrisburg to pass measures relating to the safe storage of firearms to help prevent gun massacres like the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 individuals lost their lives one year ago.
Even though every state in the Mid-Atlantic region passed gun safety laws in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, massacre last year, Pennsylvania’s legislature, controlled by Republicans who tremble at the thought of annoying the gun lobby, only passed a single bill related to gun violence.
Even though every state in the Mid-Atlantic region passed gun safety laws in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., massacre last year, Pennsylvania’s legislature, controlled by Republicans who tremble at the thought of annoying the gun lobby, only passed a single bill related to gun violence.
That one law, the first antiviolence legislation in more than a decade that deals directly with firearms in Pennsylvania, forces people with a domestic violence ruling against them to more quickly surrender their guns.
The grant awards were part of a $44.5 million award announcement for 50 projects across the state.
Two eastern Montgomery County towns and Plumstead are getting more than $2.1 million in state grants for pedestrian and road safety projects, state officials announced Friday.
HARRISBURG, PA — This past week, 17 members of the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus announced that they are seeking cosponsors for a bill that would abolish the statute of limitations for sexual abuse, assault, and misconduct.
The state’s Department of Education announced Friday 765 Pennsylvania schools will receive $8.7 million to bolster computer science and STEM education.
Nine Bucks and eastern Montgomery county school districts were awarded $315,000 for computer and technology education training last week.
