Place to sleep for the night. The no one there was hurt. Crews are investigating the cause of that fire. Pennsylvania lawmakers will vote on a School Funding plan. It would do away with School Property taxes and mean attack increase in other areas. Walk us through this, katy. Tracy, here it is. More than 100 pages of a new tax plan that would eliminate School Property taxes in pennsylvania. The bills author is david argle. A republican from schuylkill county. He represents parts of berks county. It calls for no more School Property taxes for millions of households and businesses beginning next july. To offsthet our goal raises the Interest Rate by 1. 5 and increases state sales tax on many items. Sales tax would be applied to Services Currently exspemt like tv service. Even work performed by lawyers and financial institutions. Also in this plan renters would pay higher taxes too. Its important to know when a similar bill was voted 0 it did fail. A man will find out how long he is going
All lanes blocked southbound now. So your best bet is to take the new jersey turnpike. Thats going to be the easiest way to get around. Watch for a vehicle fire on the northeast extension southbound between Lehigh Valley and quakertown. I wanted to leave you with good news. The vine street expressway back open. Westbound, eastbound, no problems right now. Firefighters work to put out flames in a home in north philadelphia. The fire started on the third floor of this house on west ontario street. This happened after 3 00 a. M. Were told everyone did make it out safely. Today, School Funding takes center stage. There is a new plan on the table that would change how schools across the state get their money. Along with that comes major tax changes. Katy zachry is live in the Digital Operations Center with more. A lot of changes. Im here to break it down. Talking about the elimination of School Property taxes, people like to hear that but on the other hand, the increase of sales and income
Below normal. Its going to feel more wintry today than it has in the recent past. Sunshine will be bright today, how about the roads, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. We have a busy monday morning. Were starting off in pennsauken township, a collapsed manhole taking out a lane on 38. Westbound right around route 70, the left lane is closed there. Watch for that. Also still watching this accident scene on 95, one lane getting by. You can see here on the righthand side, all of that activity in here on the southbound side so again, at bridge, traffic moving through the area but definitely something to watch for. This could cause problems if it doesnt clean up soon k. Were on the vine street expressway east and westbound closed in this stretch here between broad street and the schuylkill until 5 00 a. M. Happening today School Funding Takes Center Stage in harrisburg. There is a new plan on the table to change how schools get their money. That change would mean tax changes f