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Survivors of abuse “stormed out” of a Tuesday meeting with Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward about a bill to give victims more time to sue their abusers, while Ward’s spokeswoman said some survivors threw props at the senator before leaving.
Jillian Ruck, the executive director of the advocacy organization Child USA, told the USA TODAY Network Pennsylvania State Capital Bureau that the survivors who met with Ward grew increasingly frustrated in three minutes of speaking with the majority leader.
“It did not go well, and the survivors stormed out,” Ruck said.
The tense meeting reflected the growing discontent over whether Pennsylvania will pass a law to give those abused the right to sue their accusers after a constitutional amendment failed to get on this year s ballot due a clerical error.
Three surgical masks. Credit: Mika Baumeister
Pennsylvanians may have voted to restrict Gov. Tom Wolf’s emergency powers last week, but it will not impact the single most visible sign of the COVID-19 pandemic on citizens’ lives: masks.
Under current state health orders, unvaccinated individuals should wear masks when they’re indoors, and outdoors if they’re unable to maintain social distance.
Matching updated federal guidelines, the state recently lifted these rules for vaccinated individuals. Under the new orders, vaccinated individuals should only wear masks in some crowded settings.
While anger fixated on the emergency declaration, the Pennsylvania Department of Health still has the power to “carry out the appropriate control measures” of infectious diseases under the state’s 1955 Disease Control and Prevention Act.
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Extreme weather events such as flash floods, intense heat waves, and rising temperatures, all could become more frequent and severe in Pennsylvania by mid-century if current trends continue, according to a recent report.
“No one can expect Pennsylvanians’ lives to stay as they are now,” Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell said.
The Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment is a report the DEP produces every three years, as directed by the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act (Act 70) of 2008.
The report is sourced using federal, state and local data from Penn State University, ICF Consulting, and Hamel Environmental Consulting and funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy through the State Energy Program.
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By Ken MeyerApr 22nd, 2021, 9:41 am
In an interesting twist, Pennsylvania House representative
Seth Grove has admitted that Republicans were responsible for voter fraud in the state during the 2020 election.
Grove, who is also the chairman of the PA House State Government Committee, was among the Republicans who wanted Congress to reject the results from his state during the 2020 election. He conducted multiple hearings to question the state’s results in favor of
Joe Biden, took part in events that revolved around election conspiracy theories, and spearheaded a letter that claimed administrative actions and legal rulings “undermined the lawful certification of Pennsylvania’s delegation to the Electoral College.”