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The House Appropriations and Finance Committee held a three-hour hearing on allocating some of the $1.69 billion in federal pandemic relief aid but will wait until Wednesday to vote on the bill. HB 2, a general appropriations bill, will enable the legislature to begin spending some of the federal American Rescue Plan Act money. The […]
Brewster won re-election on Allegheny County's 45th Senate District by a razor-thin margin of 69 votes. Nicole Ziccarelli, Brewster's Republican opponent from November, challenged the results in federal court after losing a challenge in state court. She claimed the results were not valid because votes were counted differently in the two counties spanning the district. For example, Westmoreland County did not count ballots that weren't properly date marked on an outer envelope, but Allegheny County did count ballots that weren't properly date marked on the outer envelope. U.S. District...