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Bradford Era
April 28, 2018
That's a word that Kara Kennedy, executive director of the Bradford Area Chamber of Commerce, used to describe a business, an individual and two .... Main Street includes more than 30 acres and is the largest cemetery in McKean County and one of the oldest in northwest Pennsylvania, founded in 1881.
Tribune-Review
April 28, 2018
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Wolf is vetoing a bill that would have directed prescription drugs to be ordered off a formulary under Pennsylvania's workers' compensation program. Wolf, a Democrat, said in a statement Friday that the drug formulary proposal would have saved money for businesses andÃâà...
PennLive.com
April 27, 2018
Three of the nine candidates seeking to be Pennsylvania's next lieutenant governor outlined their platforms Thursday night in Harrisburg. ... Although not addressed at the forum, Scott has a TV commercial in which he burns an automatic rifle and calls for a ban on "assault rifles meant for war" andÃâà...
witf.org
April 27, 2018
But Scott slams Perry in a commercial that starts airing Friday, calling him one of "Donald Trump's loyal soldiers ... [who] exploit God and guns to score political points." Perry's NRA contributions since 2012 are mid-range among the state's current congressional delegation, although most of the PennsylvaniaÃâà...
WKBN.com
April 27, 2018
Diana is a leader in economic development, establishing a public-private partnership in 1999 with the Washington County Chamber of Commerce, ... Board, Washington County Opiate Task Force, and serves on the Program Advisory Committee for Penn Commercial Business and Technical School.
NBC 10 Philadelphia
April 27, 2018
Any state incentives offered to Amazon will require approval by lawmakers and will get a full public vetting before being made fully available to Amazon, Abbott said. Rob Wonderling, president of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, last year told The Philadelphia Inquirer that PennsylvaniaÃâà...
Herald-Mail Media
April 27, 2018
Candidates for the Republican nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's 13th District gather for a photo Thursday during a ... The Republicans all attended a mixer hosted Thursday by the five Franklin County chambers of commerce, while Democrat Brent M. Ottaway didn't show.
ABC27
April 26, 2018
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Gov. Tom Wolf's administration is going to court to block requests for records of financial incentives it offered Amazon to build ... Rob Wonderling, president of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, last year told The Philadelphia Inquirer that Pennsylvania planned toÃâà...
Tribune-Review
April 26, 2018
Average gasoline prices in Pennsylvania have hit $3 per gallon for the first time since 2014, GasBuddy announced Thursday. The statewide average was just over $3 per gallon as of midnight, but has continued to increase, according to the Boston-based technology company. The price is 20-cents perÃâà...
Sunbury Daily Item
April 21, 2018
LEWISBURG — Residents and leaders of the Valley expressed a need for improving broadband and high speed internet to underserved regions in rural Pennsylvania on Friday during the Join Legislative Breakfast for the Chambers of Commerce for the Greater Susquehanna Valley and Central PA.
Philly.com
April 21, 2018
“It's a 'Thank God' moment,” said Moriconi, who represents several Pennsylvania marijuana endeavors. “It paves the way for cases with a little more credence. It almost feels like it was filed out of anger and frustration, it wasn't rooted in the law.” In a statement, the Department of Health said it was pleasedÃâà...
Pittsburgh Business Times
April 21, 2018
The Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce leads the statewide CompetePA coalition, which advocates for a number of state policy changes to encourage job growth and economic development in our region and state. A top priority of the coalition is working to reduce Pennsylvania's Corporate NetÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 21, 2018
The playbook — the first in a series planned for closed Pennsylvania coal plants — is written to inspire developers' interest in reusing the shuttered Mitchell ... sold a closed power plant in South Boston for $24 million in 2016 to a developer who plans to turn it into a mixed residential and commercial district.
Philly.com
April 21, 2018
Investors with ventures along much of Market Street in West Philadelphia and Broad Street in North Philadelphia, as well as neighborhoods such as Mantua, Point Breeze and Brewerytown, may be in for new tax breaks under a federal program designed to promote development in rural and low-incomeÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
April 21, 2018
A little-known tax incentive in the law, called a Qualified Opportunity Zone, seeks to entice developers of commercial or residential projects into economically disadvantaged areas as measured by U.S. census poverty levels. The developers would not have to pay federal capital gains taxes on projects theyÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
April 21, 2018
Calling it “disruptive” and “unlawful,” a group of Pennsylvania marijuana growers and retailers wants to snuff out the state's pioneering research program ... But the group of commercial growers and retailers filed a petition last week in Commonwealth Court, saying the research program would give theÃâà...
Herald-Mail Media
April 20, 2018
With tattoos of California and Pennsylvania behind his ears, it's easy to see the places that mean a lot to Greencastle native Mark Smith. ... “I've called Philly, Detroit, New York and L.A. home over the past 13 years,” Smith told a meeting of the Greencastle-Antrim Chamber of Commerce Thursday morning.
Philly.com
April 20, 2018
The state is preparing to accept applications for another round of commercial growers and dispensaries that will be similarly scored. When Phase 2 of the process is over, the state will host 25 commercial growers and a total of 150 commercial dispensaries. The research component would add an additionalÃâà...
Elmira Star-Gazette
April 20, 2018
A Pennsylvania developer has acquired a large distribution center in Elmira Heights and is in the process of filling it with commercial tenants. An affiliate of ... Equilibrium Equities also owns the Southern Tier Commerce Center next to Elmira High School, along with a similar property in the Binghamton area.
PennLive.com
April 8, 2018
(*Updated to include comment from Pa. Democrats). EAST PENNSBORO Twp. -- Given a second chance Saturday to back off on a controversial campaign commercial that's roiling this spring's GOP primary for governor, Paul Mango doubled down again. "Absolutely not," the Pittsburgh businessmanÃâà...
Penn State News
March 15, 2018
Upon arrival at Penn State, he began by studying the genetic basis of cold tolerance, given Pennsylvania's cooler, shorter growing season when compared to major tomato-producing regions such as California and Florida. As Foolad worked with commercial tomato growers in the state to determine whatÃâà...
LancasterOnline
March 15, 2018
A company that sells natural personal-care and household products will open an e-commerce fulfillment center outside Elizabethtown, creating 100 jobs. ... Krudy said Grove was attracted to the Conewago facility because of its proximity to major roads, including Route 283 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike,Ãâà...
Tribune-Review
March 15, 2018
Pennsylvania prosecutors are dropping all assault charges against members of a now-closed Penn State fraternity in the hazing death of a pledge, sparing defendants the most serious allegations any had faced. The attorney general's office announced Thursday that it will continue to pursue involuntaryÃâà...
PA home page
March 15, 2018
Which is why on Wednesday, Members of the Pennsylvania Safe Caucus pointed to nearly a dozen pieces of legislation they want to see voted on ranging from banning bump stocks and large capacity magazines to more ... "I do think it is reasonable to require a background check on commercial gun sales.
Tribune-Review
March 15, 2018
Coal production in Pennsylvania stayed relatively stable for a second consecutive week, according to the Energy Information Administration's weekly coal production report. The state's bituminous coal production was about 942,000 tons in the week that ended March 10. That's close the previous week'sÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
March 15, 2018
It's been nearly a decade since Pennsylvania rewrote its Right-to-Know Law to make it easier for the public to obtain government records. A new .... About one-third of all records requested from the surveyed agencies in 2016 were commercial, meaning they were sought by someone who wanted to use theÃâà...
Law.com
March 15, 2018
In a recent article, the New York Times featured the role craft brewery expansion is having on reviving formerly downtrodden commercial districts and bringing a new wave of tourism into states through locally focused trails and tours. The popularity and positive impact craft breweries, distilleries and wineriesÃâà...
New York Times
March 15, 2018
The president labeled him “Lamb the sham” in a campaign appearance in Pennsylvania last Saturday, and the administration deployed Vice President ... a prosecutor in the Marine Corps and was stationed in Okinawa while on active duty — and his support for gun rights, beginning with his first commercial.
Tribune-Review
March 10, 2018
Bob Freeman, lead technician with National Express, refuels a Westmoreland County Transit Authority bus with compressed natural gas on Thursday, while transit authority board Chairman Frank Tosto and County Commissioner Ted Kopas look on.
90.5 WESA
March 9, 2018
Prosecutors in Pennsylvania have charged dozens of people for human trafficking since a tougher law took effect in 2014. ... a significant change in how the state handles human trafficking cases, said Shea Rhodes, director of Villanova University's Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation.
Tribune-Review
March 9, 2018
Crew members from PIKE electric company from Maryland pull a downed power line on New Road in Aston, Pa., in order to reconnect it on Thursday, March 8, 2018. Pennsylvania utility companies say more than 110,000 customers are without power following the state's second major snowstorm in lessÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 9, 2018
In this March 2, 2018 photo, a group of JROTC shooters compete in the prone position during the 2018 New Mexico Junior Olympic Qualifier for sport and precision air rifles at Cibola High School in Albuquerque, N.M., for the chance to compete at the National Junior Olympic Championships in Ohio in JuneÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 8, 2018
NEW YORK — From Eastern Pennsylvania to most of New England, a storm rolled into the Northeast with wet, heavy snow Wednesday for the second time in ... In Pennsylvania, all commercial vehicles were banned from interstates 380 and 84, while empty straight trucks, double trailers and other types ofÃâà...
Business Insider
March 8, 2018
You can't watch more than 10 minutes of local TV within the district without seeing the latest spot blasting Democratic candidate and former assistant US Attorney Conor Lamb, an ad defending the congressional hopeful, or a commercial taking aim at his Republican opponent, Pennsylvania state Rep.
Finance and Commerce
March 8, 2018
Las Vegas Sands Corp. is selling its Pennsylvania casino to an American Indian tribe from Alabama for $1.3 billion, the company announced Thursday. Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem opened in 2009 on the site of Bethlehem Steel's former headquarters plant, transforming what was then the nation'sÃâà...
PennLive.com
March 8, 2018
With the last of winter storm Quinn's remnants moving outside of Pennsylvania, PennDOT and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission have lifted most of the speed restrictions and bans on many large vehicles issued out of caution for inclement weather. Motorists driving Empty trailers, as well as tandemÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 7, 2018
A debate question about public school funding in Pennsylvania exposed big differences in how the three candidates for the Republican nomination to ... Laura Ellsworth, a commercial litigation attorney from suburban Pittsburgh who once headed the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, said flatlyÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
March 7, 2018
Laura Ellsworth, a commercial litigation attorney from suburban Pittsburgh who once headed the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, said flatly that Pennsylvania's school funding is not fair or adequate. While she warned against throwing money at a problem to solve it, she suggested that the wayÃâà...
FOX43.com
March 7, 2018
HARRISBURG — With winter weather diminished in south central Pennsylvania, PennDOT has lifted the restrictions on certain commercial traffic on the southern section of Interstate 81. The restriction was lifted as of 2:30 PM for Interstate 81 between the Maryland line and Interstate 83 in Harrisburg.
Tribune-Review
March 2, 2018
President Donald Trump is planning to return to Western Pennsylvania next weekend for a campaign rally in Moon, campaign officials announced Friday. Trump will appear at a rally scheduled for 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 10 at an Atlantic Aviation hanger at Pittsburgh International Airport. "The PresidentÃâà...
The National Law Review
March 2, 2018
Edward J. McAndrew is a counselor, investigator, and trial lawyer who helps clients navigate life in the digital world. He is the Co-Practice Leader of the firm's Privacy and Data Security Group. Named a "Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trailblazer" by The National Law Journal, Mr. McAndrew advises clientsÃâà...
LancasterOnline
March 2, 2018
While Real IDs aren't required for Pennsylvania residents to drive, vote, get medical treatment or testify in court, they will be one of the only acceptable IDs required to board a commercial flight or enter secure federal buildings starting in October 2020. PennDOT is sending postcards to eligible customersÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 1, 2018
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Jurors have resumed deliberating in the trial of a Pennsylvania mayor who's charged with trading city contracts for campaign contributions. Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski faces dozens of charges including fraud, bribery, attempted extortion and lying to the FBI. Jurors reconvenedÃâà...
PA home page
March 1, 2018
REAL ID is optional for Pennsylvania residents. A federally-accepted form of identification (whether it's the forthcoming Pennsylvania REAL ID driver's license or ID card, a U.S. Passport/Passport Card, a military ID, etc.) must be used as identification to board a commercial flight or visit a secure federalÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 1, 2018
HARRISBURG, Pa. - You can now apply online for a Real ID, but there's a catch. If you're interested in obtaining a Real ID, and you obtained your first driver's license or photo ID card after September 2003, then you are eligible for Real ID pre-verification.
bctv.org
February 28, 2018
Boyertown, PA – To mark National Invasive Species Week, the Pennsylvania departments of Agriculture and Conservation and Natural Resources, along with representatives of the Governor's Invasive Species Council visited Rolling Rock Building Stone today to demonstrate the crucial role businessesÃâà...
Philly.com
February 28, 2018
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Appropriations Committee did not directly ask PLCB representatives, board members Mike Negra ... We are looking at putting a new e-commerce platform together,” he said, calling the agency's $2 million a year in revenue from e-commerce “pathetic.
Herald-Mail Media
February 27, 2018
... the whopper if a plan to bring a Burger King to Antrim Township, Pa., is successful. The proposal would be the fourth fast-food restaurant in the Greencastle-Antrim community. It would bring employment, and also be the first development in many years on a long-vacant commercial land tract along Pa. 16.
