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Senators Collett & Saval Unveil Legislation to Fight Anti-Asian Discrimination with More Robust Education
Harrisburg, Pa. − Mayo 31, 2022 − In an effort to improve education and fight the recent rise in bias crimes against people of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) descent in the Commonwealth, State Senators Maria Collett (D12-Montgomery/Bucks) and Nikil...
Advocates Call For AAPI Curriculum In Pennsylvania Classrooms
HARRISBURG, PA — Advocates from the Asian American and Pacific Islander community descended upon the Pennsylvania capitol recently to call for greater AAPI education in schools as a counter to a growing rise in anti-Asian sentiment in the nation. The Pennsylvania...
Senator Nikil Saval to Hold Rally Calling for Passage of Bipartisan Whole-Home Repairs Act
Philadelphia, PA − Mayo 24, 2022 − Today, Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia County) held a rally attended by more than 200 housing and energy advocates, community leaders, Pennsylvania residents, and Democrat and Republican legislators from the General Assembly to...
Fight blight with Whole Home Repairs | Editorial
Among Pennsylvania’s many distinctions, the commonwealth has one of the nation’s oldest housing stocks — half of all homes in the state were built before 1959. These old buildings are brimming with architectural character, but redbrick rowhomes and majestic Victorians...
Senate Democrats Call on Republicans to Immediately Prioritize Gun Violence Prevention Legislation and Appropriations
HARRISBURG – Mayo 25, 2022 – Today, Pennsylvania Senate Democrats wrote the following letter to Republican leaders in response to rampant gun violence and mass shootings that have become too common in the United States. Just this year, 215 mass shootings have...
Un nuevo estudio muestra que más de tres cuartas partes de los votantes de Pensilvania apoyan la ley bipartidista de reparaciones integrales de viviendas
Filadelfia, PA - 24 de mayo 2022 - Hoy, el senador Nikil Saval (D-Condado de Filadelfia) celebró una manifestación a la que asistieron más de 200 defensores de la vivienda y la energía, líderes comunitarios, residentes de Pensilvania, y los legisladores demócratas y republicanos de la Asamblea General....
Un senador pide la aprobación de la Ley de reparaciones integrales de viviendas
Pass the Whole-Home Repairs Act: Rally at Our Capitol
Los votantes de todos los partidos de Pensilvania apoyan las inversiones públicas para reparar viviendas
Pensilvania tiene algunas de las viviendas más antiguas del país. Durante años, los daños meteorológicos, la falta de fiabilidad de la calefacción y las graves deficiencias estructurales han provocado inseguridad en la vivienda y costosas reparaciones. Una nueva encuesta de Data for Progress y People's Action muestra...
Philly officials support GOP bike lane protection bill
Bell-ringing in Philadelphia Viernes morning wasn’t coming from Citizen’s Bank Park or the Constitution Center but from a peloton riding into Dilworth Park outside City Hall. Several city and state officials rode into a press conference with the Bicycle Coalition of...
Lawmakers call for teaching more AAPI history in schools
HARRISBURG, Pa. — As a child growing up in the Philly suburbs, Serena Nguyễn was ashamed of her last name. “It was a strange, unfamiliar, hard-to-pronounce sound connecting me to a land distant in time and space. It seemed un-American,” said Nguyễn, who has since...
El legislador que impulsa un fondo estatal de ayuda a la reparación de viviendas
Una propuesta de ley en Pensilvania utilizaría el poder y el presupuesto del gobierno estatal para ayudar a los propietarios de viviendas y a los pequeños arrendadores a realizar reparaciones críticas en sus propiedades, en un esfuerzo por abordar los crecientes retos de la asequibilidad de la vivienda y el cambio climático....
Philly spent a decade reconnecting neighborhoods to the waterfront. Widening I-95 is repeating past mistakes.
Over the last decade, something miraculous has been happening in the central Philadelphia neighborhoods that border the Great Wall of I-95. Guided by a smart master plan, the agency that manages the Delaware waterfront has helped transform its old piers and industrial...
Hughes, Fiedler, Rally with Educators for Full School Funding
PHILADELPHIA, PA — With Pennsylvania sitting on more than $8 billion in excess revenue, and a dismal national ranking for school equity, state Sen. Vincent Hughes and Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler held a pre-budget school funding rally in South Philadelphia on Viernes to call...
Senator Nikil Saval Demands Full Funding for PA Public Schools
Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
Last week, I had the surreal experience of reading my way through a stack of high-toned books about liberalism when news trickled out that a conservative majority on the Supreme Court was preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade. Legal scholars were swift to denounce what...
How have Philly and PA public officials reacted to the Roe v. Wade leak?
On Lunes, Mayo 2, Politico leaked a draft of the U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion, which indicated that the nation’s highest court will most likely vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling which guaranteed the right to abortion in the nation for...
Buscar formas de luchar juntos contra el tizón
Imagínese lo siguiente: ha trabajado incansablemente durante años para poder comprar una casa antigua. Ha dedicado incontables horas y miles de dólares a mejorarla. Ese era el sueño de mis padres en Tamaqua en 1965 cuando compraron por primera vez una "media doble" de 1917 y mi...
Senator Saval Announces $17.8 Million in Grants for Local Projects
Philadelphia, PA − Mayo 5, 2022 − Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia) has announced $17,815,000 in grants for multiple local projects throughout the First Senatorial District, adding to the tens of millions of dollars in major investments previously secured.
Politics and Civic Engagement
Asian American Studies Scholar and host Rob Buscher discusses AAPI involvement in local politics and civic engagement with panelists Nina Ahmad, Nikil Saval, and Helen Gym. Historically, Asian Americans have faced barriers in becoming politically active. What are the...