News Digest :: January 18, 2022
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Legislature Pa. GOP answered Wolf’s pandemic vetoes with constitution changes. The strategy is here to stay. · Spotlight PA Unable to win the battle of ideas, Pa. Republicans are damaging the state Constitution | Opinion – Pennsylvania Capital-Star...To honor Dr. King’s legacy, raise the minimum wage
OpEd by Senator John I. Kane
59 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his historic “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He asked the audience of 250,000 how, a century after the end of slavery, Black Americans still “live[d] on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” For Dr. King, the protesters were at the capital to “cash a check”, and to finally make the promise of the American Dream a reality for everyone, regardless of the color of their skin.