Ian Karbal, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
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SEPTA moving forward with service cuts, thanks to budget stalemate
Barring a last-minute deal, the mass transit agency, which serves 800,000 riders daily in the greater Philadelphia region, will institute a 20% reduction in all services on Aug. 24, and fare increases on Sept. 1.
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Budget disagreements burst into the open at Pa. Capitol
The Senate passed a Republican-backed budget. But Gov. Shapiro said it’s ‘not a serious, long-term proposal.’
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Pa. House holds a Sunday vote on transit funding as the consequences of a late budget loom
The move to advance a standalone transit funding bill is something of a pressure tactic on the part of House Democrats.
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Pa. House Democrats push a transit funding bill—again—as SEPTA warns of coming cuts
An estimated one million Pennsylvanians rely on mass transit each day in urban, suburban and rural regions.
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Federal regulators hear from the community about planned Three Mile Island restart
Constellation Energy is working to reopen the nuclear facility by 2027 to power data centers for Microsoft.
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Gov. Shapiro joins lawsuit against against Trump administration over defunding of Planned Parenthood
The suit centers on a provision of the recently-passed mega bill , which enacts many of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy priorities.
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For Pa.’s NIOSH employees, uncertainty remains amid lawsuits and mixed signals
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled through its shadow docket earlier this month that President Donald Trump could move forward with plans to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, U.S. government employees across Pennsylvania braced themselves.
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He filmed an Allentown officer driving at him. Now he’s launching a First Amendment suit.
The lawsuit names the city of Allentown and two police officers, Sgt. Christopher Stephenson and now-retired Officer Dean Flyte.
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What’s at stake over proposed increase in mass transit funding in Pa.?
“If they cut the 32 bus especially, there goes my job. There goes my place to live. It’d put my freedom on the line.”
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Brian Fitzpatrick is only Pa. Republican to oppose Trump’s budget bill
The collar county congressman objected to Medicaid cuts added by the U.S. Senate.
