PA Senate Democrats to Hold Policy Hearing on Improving Nursing Homes
At the request of Senators Wayne Fontana (D- Allegheny), Jim Brewster (D- Allegheny/Westmoreland), Lindsey Williams (D- Allegheny), and Senate Democratic Leader Jay Costa (D- Allegheny), the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Policy Committee will hold a virtual public...News Digest :: May 28, 2021
Legislature Pa. lawmakers want stricter regulations on fracking | WKBN.com Senate Democrats push for greater accountability from natural gas industry | StateImpact Pennsylvania (npr.org) State awards $200,000 in grants to address blight in Reading | Berks and Beyond |...OpEd: ‘Sweet Swag’ A Gross Reward for Mocking Philly Gun Violence Deaths
Op-ed by Senator Sharif Street
Every day in America over three hundred people are shot. On Tuesday night 18-year-old Nasir Marks was fatally shot multiple times in West Philadelphia at around 7:30 p.m. A half-hour later, just before 8 p.m., a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed in my district in North Philadelphia. On Wednesday morning a mass shooting left a total of 10 people dead in California. Gun violence dominates the news cycle and threatens to numb us to routine reporting of loss of life comparable only to the pandemic in its infancy.