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.
PERKASIE TWP., Pa. – Bucks County residents turned out in force to talk about the Rockhill Quarry in Perkasie Township.
Pennsylvania Representatives Steve Santarsiero, Craig Staats and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick hosted the town hall at Bucks Community College after asbestos was discovered last month at the quarry.
uarry operations must remove a minimum of 500 tons of stone per year to keep active their mining permits, which are issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Since the 1980s, Allentown-based Hanson Aggregates has done just that at Rockhill Quarry. Some years it would take an afternoon’s work to clear the 500-ton hurdle, but at the end of the day, the quarry would be good to go for another year.
Yesterday, Senate Democratic Minority Leader Jay Costa Jr. announced the new committee assignments for the 2019-2020 session.
All five of the newly elected Senators are going to chair a committee this session coupled with serving on multiple additional committees.
On Aug. 18, 2016, it only took about a half a day’s work for the Rockhill Quarry in East Rockhill to haul out 500 tons of stone, the bare minimum to maintain its active mining permit with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Twenty-four trucks were loaded with stone ranging from 20 to 23 tons, according to records the quarry provided to the DEP, totaling up to 529 tons, and driven to a scale at a Tinicum quarry about 30 minutes away.
State Senators-elect Maria Collett, D-12, and Steven Santarsiero, D-10, said their first 100 days in office will also focus on education, transparency and other state issues.
Democrats Maria Collett and former state House Rep. Steve Santarsiero are poised to tackle health care, the environment and other issues as they begin their new four-year terms in the state Senate.
Levittown-area state legislators were sworn in for their next term on New Year’s Day in Harrisburg.
State representatives Tina Davis a Democrat from Bristol Township; Frank Farry, a Republican from Langhorne; and John Galloway, a Democrat from Falls Township, took the oath of office for their next term.
HARRISBURG >> State Senator Steven J. Santarsiero (D-10, Bucks) was sworn in for his first term in the State Senate during a ceremony on Jan. 1 in the Senate Chamber of the State Capitol in Harrisburg.
Sen. Santarsiero was joined by over 100 friends and family for his swearing-in ceremony. Pennsylvania Justice Kevin M. Dougherty administered the oath of office.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s legislature kicked off its two-year session Tuesday with celebratory receptions and swearing-in ceremonies, all devoid of the tension that could quickly settle over its dealings with the Wolf administration.
