Tribune Publishing early Monday confirmed it received a revised, fully financed bid from a second suitor that “would reasonably be expected to lead to a ‘Superior Proposal’” over the bid received from Alden Global Capital.
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Addressing the country Wednesday from an Allegheny County carpenters training hall, President Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that could change local transportation if it gets past Republican opposition.
Biden’s infrastructure proposal, called the American Jobs Plan, would replace and repair thousands of bridges and thousands of miles of roads across the country. In Pennsylvania, it could mean more investment in long-neglected passenger rail service.
Among Biden’s proposed changes: $80 billion in new funding for Amtrak, alongside improvements to passenger and freight rail lines. That would include new connections between cities and improvements to “existing corridors,” according to a fact sheet released by the administration.
State Sen. Lisa Boscola talks redistricting, election reform | FOX43 Capitol Beat
The Lehigh County Democrat is one of the senate s only remaining moderates, and has been pushing for an independent commission to redraw legislative lines for years. Author: Matt Maisel (FOX43) Updated: 9:56 AM EDT March 17, 2021
HARRISBURG, Pa. For the last seven years, State Senator Lisa Boscola has tried to reform the way legislative and congressional lines are drawn in Pennsylvania. Each of the previous three sessions, Boscola has produced bills which proposed to create an 11-member independent, citizen-led, redistricting commission.
Her bills have never reached the governor s desk.
Boscola, a moderate Democrat from Lehigh and Northampton Counties in Eastern Pennsylvania, spoke to FOX43 s Matt Maisel about the redistricting process during the
Itâs easy to imagine the scene early New Yearâs Day in 1806 as a group of young revelers from the Morgantown area walked home after a night out.
They had been making the rounds, âshooting in the new year,â according to a brief item in the Jan. 4, 1806,Â
Reading Weekly Advertiser, as reprinted by the
Reading Times, Jan. 12, 1872.
No doubt they drank a good deal of alcohol as they made their way from farm to farm, waking families with blasts of black powder from muzzle-loaded shotguns, wishing them well in the new year and demanding food and drink.
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