Art-making opportunity Community members are invited to participate in MadLab work sessions planned for noon to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Feb. 19 at Your Are Here gallery, 406 Clay Ave., Jeannette. MadLab is an art project that creates benches and mosaic planters made of recycled materials to be placed
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I’ve always been interested in how our government functions, but during the covid lockdown in Pennsylvania I asked a lot of questions of our public officials as to why we were being shut down and why seemingly nothing could be done about it.
I contacted my state senator, Kim Ward, who said she had heard from many small businesses in our area and was working on an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution so that the Legislature could have a voice in future discussions. This amendment appeared on the ballot as a referendum in the May primary of this year. It seemed a real conundrum that the governor was the only person able to call a state of emergency as well as be the only person to end one.