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Lawmakers, real estate professionals and others said more state funding for education would help lower-performing school districts and thus boost home sales and the tax bases for those districts. More state funding for public education would help strengthen...

Bucks County Democratic lawmakers want Pennsylvania to be the next state to make it illegal for health care providers to exploit patients to increase profits. Bucks County Democratic lawmakers are proposing legislation designed to punish drug treatment and testing...

HARRISBURG, PA — A Newtown Township resident and national baseball writer was recognized by lawmakers Monday at the state Capitol in Harrisburg for winning a prestigious sportswriting award. Longtime local and national baseball writer Jayson Stark was recognized by...

HARRISBURG >> The Pennsylvania State Senate and House on June 3 approved by unanimous consent resolutions introduced by State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) and State Representative Perry Warren (D-31) that congratulate Newtown resident and nationally recognized...

Bristol, Doylestown and Plumstead townships and Morrisville were all awarded grants through the Automated Red Light Enforcement program this week. State officials announced more than $1.3 million in state grants awarded to four Bucks County towns earlier this week...

Sen. Steven Santarsiero and State Rep. Perry Warren, both D-Bucks, announced last month that the state Department of Community and Economic Development is awarding a $40,000 grant to Newtown. The funds are being provided through the department’s Early Intervention...

NEWTOWN >> From the solitude of the Newtown Cemetery to Veterans Plaza on Historic State Street, Taps split the morning air as Newtown remembered the fallen on Memorial Day. Pausing first at the gravesite of Morell Smith, Newtown’s only native son who died fighting...

State Sens. Steve Santarsiero and Maria Collett want to give the state attorney general the ability to prosecute environmental crimes, without waiting for a referral from another agency. But detractors say authority should remain with the state DEP. State Sens. Steve...

LOWER MAKEFIELD >> Scouts BSA (Troop 210) celebrated its newest Eagle Scout, Connor Eirich, during a Court of Honor on Saturday, April 13 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Lower Makefield The son of Russ and Julia Eirich of Lower Makefield, Connor began his Scouting...

The Bristol Township School District and Middle Bucks Institute of Technology in Warwick received grants that can be spent on security equipment and training in its use. The Bristol Township School District and Middle Bucks Institute of Technology in Warwick were...

PENNSBURY >> The Pennsbury School Board on May 16 unanimously approved a resolution recognizing Cameren Cooper’s two years of service as a school board representative. Cooper, a senior at Pennsbury High School, will be graduating in June and continuing his education...

Schools in the Abington, Bristol Township, Pennridge and Upper Moreland school districts were among 151 across the state to receive state breakfast mini-grants. Getting that first meal of the day is more likely for students at several area schools. Schools in the...

It’s been some 20 years in the making, but with the help of a $1.5 million state grant it seems the long-awaited redevelopment of the PennDOT property at North Broad and Doyle streets is a step closer to becoming a reality. State and local officials gathered at the...

Work on the deteriorating bridge on Main Street in Sellersville begins this summer, and should take just over a year to complete. Two state legislators announced $4.7 million in Pennsylvania Department of Transportation funding will help repair a 92-year-old bridge on...

DOYLESTOWN BOROUGH >> Standing at the site of the borough’s proposed $11 million municipal complex on North Broad Street, state lawmakers on May 10 announced the release of $1.5 million for the project. Awarded through the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital...

A PennDOT official for Bucks County confirmed the new facility in Plumstead should be ready for the department to begin moving this summer and the property at 229 N. Broad Street vacant by the fall The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is expected to leave its...

NEWTOWN BOROUGH >> Newtown celebrated its trees on May 3 with the help of first and fifth grade students from Goodnoe Elementary School. Held at Brian Gregg Memorial Park on North Congress Street and organized by the borough's Recreation Board, the town's annual Arbor...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...