The start of a multi-year construction plan was marked Thursday with the groundbreaking for a new Fayette County Prison.
Representatives from municipal, county, state and federal government as well as project team members were on hand at the former Army Reserve Training Center on McClellandtown Road in Uniontown, the site for the new Fayette County Prison.
âOur leadership right now is laser focused on this goal,â said Muriel Nuttall, executive director of the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce.
Nuttall said the site that was once of importance for national security will be a place of importance for local security.
Existing buildings on the site will be demolished and replaced with a 114,500 square-foot, four-story facility that will have 170 cells and 330 beds.
With businesses across the region still struggling under the weight of the coronavirus pandemic, Rep. Matthew Dowling, R-Uniontown, urged area business owners to offer their feedback on how to restore the stateâs economy by participating in a new COVID-19 Economic Recovery Business Survey.
The survey was launched Wednesday by the House Majority Policy Committee.
âThis is a great opportunity for the hard-working men and women who have been trying to keep their businesses afloat for the last 11 months to finally have a say in their future,â Dowling said. âI encourage all of our employers to take a few minutes to share their insights and expertise so we can go beyond just restoring our economy to make it better than ever.â
The reaction of lawmakers in the region to Gov. Tom Wolfâs $40 billion budget proposal was about as cold as the temperature outside this time of year.
State Rep. Josh Kail, a Beaver County Republican whose district includes part of Washington County, summed up the negative response when he described it as âtaxes, taxes and more taxes.â
âUnfortunately, instead of advancing pro-worker and pro-growth policies, we still have the same problems that we had when the governor was elected in 2014, and heâs still trying to use the same failed tax policy in response.â
Wolf, a Democrat, and the Republican-majority General Assembly locking horns over the budget has been an annual rite for most of the governorâs time in office. In his budget address Wednesday, Wolf called for an increase in personal income taxes in the 2021-22 fiscal year, a severance tax on the natural gas industry and a 17% increase in spending overall to boost public schools and job trainin
Have you heard about the out of this world new whine? It is called Injustice League White. It begins with bitter notes, then finishes with a sour mouth. It pairs well with anything really stinky.
In Mondayâs Herald-Standard, the Injustice League â state Rep. Matthew Dowling, R-Uniontown, Rep. Ryan Warner, R-Perryopolis, Sen. Pat Stefano, R-Bullskin Township, Sen. Camera Bartolotta, R-Carroll Township, and Rep. Bud Cook, R-West Pike Run Township â uncorked a particularly distasteful whine regarding the slow and frustrating rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. To listen to their misguided accusations, you would think they just arrived from a universe far, far away and knew nothing of what has transpired over the past year.