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Hidden talents of Pennsylvania lawmakers: a New Yorker writer, an MMA fighter, and alligator rescues
The work of a Pennsylvania legislator may be defined by bureaucracy and procedure, but lawmaker lives can be a little more colorful in the off-hours. While the hundreds of legislators in Harrisburg proudly tout their values and communities, they're often less vocal...
Two Problems, One Solution
“Location, location, location” is a well-known real estate axiom, and the value of a particular building or piece of land is heavily influenced by the access it provides to different kinds of amenities and services. Among those services that affect housing prices is...
Beginnings and endings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
(The Center Square) - While the Navy Yard in Philadelphia looks toward the future, a Pennsylvania brand which briefly made its home there is closing its doors. On Jueves the Shapiro administration visited the Navy Yard to speak about a $30 million investment toward...
Governor Shapiro Highlights $30 Million Investment in Philadelphia Navy Yard Through First PA SITES Grant Awards, Creating Hundreds of Jobs, Building Shovel-Ready Sites for Businesses, and Supercharging Growth in South Philly
The $30 million investment in the Philadelphia Navy Yard is part of the Governor’s first round of PA SITES funding — a total of $64 million awarded to 11 strategic sites across the Commonwealth — helping create shovel-ready sites across the Commonwealth in order to...
Fares up, service down: SEPTA riders sound the alarm
SEPTA’s doomsday budget would have a sweeping impact on the Main Line, stranding young people from the area’s many colleges, cutting off residents from opportunities and increasing car traffic, Montgomery County leaders warned Martes. County elected officials,...
Trump Wants ‘Beautiful’ Architecture. You Decide What That Is.
Amid the blizzard of executive orders President Donald Trump has issued in his return to office — from the significant (gutting federal diversity programs) to the overly ambitious (“Iron Dome for America”) to the downright silly (Gulf of America, anyone?) — one that’s...
‘Ghosts’ of long-demolished Philly buildings have stories to tell
All that’s left of 2716 N. 12th St. in North Philadelphia are sun-bleached rectangles of plaster clinging to the party wall of an adjacent house that still stands. Traces of stairways, shelving, joists, and tilework overlook demolition sites in the city’s older...
Big city mass transit push has small boost for county
The Transit Authority of Warren County stands to see an additional $231,766 in the budget proposed by Gov. Josh Shapiro. With two months remaining before the deadline for state lawmakers to adopt the 2026 state budget, Democrats in Harrisburg are putting on a...
PA Public Transit Funding Package Proposed
HARRISBURG – Philadelphia County Senator Nikil Saval and Allegheny County Sen. Lindsey Williams announced the Transit for All PA Funding Package, a suite of legislative proposals to help secure full funding for transit agencies across the state. The package includes a...
Pennsylvania lawmakers push for funding for SEPTA amid budget crisis
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Two Pennsylvania state lawmakers are planning to introduce legislation that could offer a lifeline to public transportation agencies, like SEPTA. State Senator Lindsey Williams, of District 38, and State Senator Nikil Saval, of District 1 in...
Democrats introduce ‘Transit For All PA’ legislative package as potential lifeline for SEPTA, PRT
Just days after a Republican proposal to privatize SEPTA’s bus services, Democratic lawmakers in Harrisburg announced a legislative package aimed at staving off service cuts to public transit systems statewide. Dubbed the “Transit for All PA Funding Package,” the set...
Pennsylvania legislators to propose new funding for transit
HARRISBURG, Pa. — With transit agencies in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh both warning of catastrophic service cuts without additional state funding, two Pennsylvania state senators have announced plans for legislation to help fund transit statewide.
Emotional testimony, Democratic funding proposal highlight hearing on transit cuts
For nearly seven hours Martes, Pittsburgh Regional transit heard from dozens of riders and transit advocates about the serious problems they would face if the agency follows through with service cuts of 45%, a 62% reduction in the area served by Access paratransit...
Pittsburgh Public Transit riders rally against ‘devastating’ service cuts, fare increases
Allegheny County public transit users decried a proposal to raise bus and light-rail fares and make major cuts to the region’s transit service Martes, calling the plan potentially “devastating” for the region’s residents and economy. “While not quite on par with the...
Construction begins on Washington Ave.
Construction on the Washington Avenue connector project has begun. The city Department of Streets and the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation announced the beginning of the project, which is slated to improve access between South Philadelphia and the scenic Delaware...
Schuylkill River Dog Park reopens
Around Town – Fiedler, Saval secure $50,000 grant for Whitman Council
In Abril, state Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler and state Sen. Nikil Saval helped secure a $50,000 grant from the Department of Community and Economic Development for Whitman Council, a neighborhood advisory council that provides services to South Philly residents including...
Philadelphia Kicks Off Washington Avenue Connector Project to Enhance Urban Access and Community Links
Big changes are coming to Washington Avenue this week, as the City of Philadelphia Department of Streets, in partnership with the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC), has kicked off construction on the highly anticipated Washington Avenue Connector Project....
City of Philadelphia Department of Streets and Delaware River Waterfront Corporation Announce Construction Beginning on Washington Avenue Connector Project
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia Department of Streets and Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (“DRWC”) announced that construction of the Washington Avenue connector project is slated to begin this week. This project not only reimagines the roadway but also...
“Chaos and confusion” — Shapiro slams Trump tariffs during Philly visit
Gov. Josh Shapiro visited the Port of Philadelphia (PhilaPort) on Jueves to speak directly with port officials, business leaders, and workers about the impact of new federal tariffs on their operations and expenses. The governor’s visit comes amid new federal...
SEPTA riders call on Pennsylvania government to fully fund mass transit system
Just a day after the budget was announced, riders and state and local officials gathered at City Hall to protest the potential service cuts and demand a permanent yearly funding increase for SEPTA.
Transit crisis: Leaders rally outside City Hall to urge Harrisburg for help with SEPTA’s doomsday budget scenario
One day after SEPTA announced a budget that would cut service by nearly half, legislators, labor leaders and transit advocates united to share a singular message: Republicans in the state Senate need to pass a budget that funds transit. SEPTA faces a $213 million...
As Philly reels from SEPTA’s severe budget proposal, hundreds rally at City Hall
It was a cross between a high school football game and a Bernie Sanders rally. Chants. Cheers. Fiery calls to save the working-class people who need SEPTA. Transit riders, advocates, state lawmakers, union leaders, high school students, City Council members, and...
Rally held demanding lawmakers fully fund SEPTA to avoid looming ‘transit death spiral’
Supporters of SEPTA gathered at City Hall on Viernes and called on lawmakers to fully fund the transit agency to avoid a "transit death spiral" that would lead to massive service cuts and higher fares. NBC10's Lauren Mayk has the details.
Pa. leaders call for state funding for cash-strapped SEPTA: ‘It’s time to act’
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- With plans for an increase in fares and a decrease in service, the future of SEPTA is in flux. Local and state lawmakers say the transportation agency needs a lifeline from the Pennsylvania legislature. They held a rally on Viernes to demand just...
Transit system in ‘crisis’: SEPTA supporters rally at Philadelphia City Hall against ‘death spiral’ of proposed service cuts
Hundreds gathered at Dilworth Plaza Viernes morning for the “We’re Not Getting There Without SEPTA” rally, voicing their opposition to proposed cuts and fare increases by the public transit agency. State Sen. Nikil Saval, D-Philadelphia, led the group in a chant: “No...
As brutal service cuts and fare increases loom, Philly-area officials demand solutions for SEPTA
Pennsylvania’s largest mass transit system is in danger of reaching a terminus no one wants to arrive at. On Jueves, SEPTA announced that it would have to implement severe cutbacks amid a $213 million shortfall this year. In response, lawmakers from around the...
‘No cuts, no way’ for SEPTA, lawmakers say
(The Center Square) – Mass transit riders in the Philadelphia region must brace for service cuts and fare increases this summer as the battle for more state funding gears up. On Jueves, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, announced...
Governor Shapiro at the Port of Philadelphia: New Tariffs Causing Chaos, Uncertainty, and Higher Prices for Pennsylvania Consumers and Businesses
Governor Shapiro visited the Port of Philadelphia — the largest port in the U.S. for imported fruit and a major gateway for goods entering the country, supporting 12,000 jobs locally and 66,000 maritime jobs statewide — to highlight his Administration’s commitment to...
Los inquilinos estadounidenses temen que les suban el alquiler y los desahucien por la eficiencia energética de sus viviendas
WASHINGTON - Inquilinos y funcionarios locales de todo Estados Unidos advierten de que la creciente respuesta al cambio climático podría agravar sin querer la crisis de asequibilidad de la vivienda en el país, disparando los costes e incluso provocando desahucios. Con viviendas y edificios...
New U.S. citizens take Oath of Allegiance at Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution
Philadelphia has long been a proud gateway for American citizenship, and on Martes, that tradition continued as two dozen new citizens took the Oath of Allegiance in a naturalization ceremony at the Museum of the American Revolution. The event, hosted by the United...
‘Horrified’: State, local politicians criticize termination of Penn student visas
Several state and local elected officials criticized the State Department's recent revocation of student visas — including those of at least three Penn students — in interviews with The Daily Pennsylvanian. Earlier this week, an email from Penn's International Student...
Penn affiliates join Labor for Higher Education rally outside Sen. Dave McCormick’s office
Over 150 individuals gathered in Center City on Martes to protest and demand the reversal of federal funding cuts to research, health, and higher education. The Abril 8 rally — which took place outside the office of Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) on Market Street — was...
James C. Scott’s “In Praise of Floods,” Reviewed
“In Praise of Floods” (Yale), a study of rivers by the late political scientist James C. Scott, arrives after a year of catastrophic floods. Last spring, heavy rainfall lifted parts of the San Jacinto and Trinity Rivers, in East Texas, at least a dozen feet above the...
Pa. Senate Democrats urge bipartisan support for housing as federal backing crumbles
State lawmakers gathered in Harrisburg Miércoles to denounce what they see as a Trump administration rollback of anti-discrimination housing laws. They’re aiming to garner bipartisan support in the state Senate to ensure Pennsylvania upholds federal standards that...
Aramark workers at Philly stadiums reach tentative contract to secure raises, health care
Aramark workers at Citizens Bank Park, Lincoln Financial Field and the Wells Fargo Center have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the food service provider, striking a deal that will include raises up to $6 an hour and health care benefits that...
Shapiro announces $5M grant to Philly Muslim community center
Gov. Josh Shapiro joined an iftar dinner at the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society in North Philly to announce a historic grant from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, the largest ever awarded to a Muslim organization.
Elected officials criticize federal ‘assault’ on Penn, call on University to take action
everal elected officials expressed disapproval towards both the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $175 million in federal funds to Penn and the University’s response in interviews with The Daily Pennsylvanian. As federal actions continue to target higher...
‘Welcoming Caucus’ takes stand against Trump immigration policies
(The Center Square) - Invoking the state and national history of immigration, beginning with the welcome offered by William Penn, some Pennsylvania elected officials want to pass new laws that counter the federal government’s recent deportation efforts. The PA...
Pennsylvania Bill Requires Prosecutors to Notify ICE of Illegal Immigrant Proceedings
A bill introduced by Pennsylvania Republican Senator Dan Laughlin to protect citizens from criminal illegal immigrants has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill, Senate Bill 471, requires an attorney to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...