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Mayor Ron Filippelli and former Councilwoman Cathy Dauler will seek a return to State College Borough Council in this year’s election. In a joint statement on Friday, both said that they will run as a team on the Democratic ballot in the May 18 primary. Filippelli previously was elected to two terms on borough council from 2006 to 2013, serving one term as council president and one year as the chair of the Centre Region Council of Governments. He was appointed interim mayor of State College in December 2019 to fill the remaining two years of Don Hahn’s term after Hahn was elected district...

Political science Prof. James Druckman is working with researchers from Harvard, Northeastern and Rutgers to survey thousands of Americans every month for the COVID States Project — the largest ongoing national survey tracking people’s opinions and behavior during the pandemic. “I’ve never been involved in anything that even approaches the speed with which this is moved,” Druckman said. “We wanted to collect data in a way that was able to look at both the spatial dynamics, by having large samples from every state in the country, and the temporal dynamics, by having data over time....

Council voted 4-3 to approve the $69 million budget, which includes no tax increase.  The most contentious point of discussions over the past month, the approved budget will authorize 60 sworn police officers while shifting $400,000 funding for the new  Civilian Response Team comprised of mental health professionals and a new  “This is not a perfect budget. It’s an unbalanced budget and we will have to deal with it, maybe more than once. But it is a functional budget,” Councilwoman Theresa Lafer said. “It will help us through the six and 12 months ahead as we see what happens from...

forces while washington struggles with an extremely challenging fiscal environment. >> brown: we continue our collaboration with "the economist" magazine to highlight the art of filmmaking. tonight, saving the rainforests in honduras from destructive farming practices. >> you're looking at a catastrophe, 1 billion tons of carbon straight up into the atmosphere annually. >> woodruff: and margaret warner examines what dissent within the ranks of oil producing nations means for oil prices here in the u.s. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newsho...

forces while washington struggles with an extremely challenging fiscal environment. >> brown: we continue our collaboration with "the economist" magazine to highlight the art of filmmaking. tonight, saving the rainforests in honduras from destructive farming practices. >> you're looking at a catastrophe, 1 billion tons of carbon straight up into the atmosphere annually. >> woodruff: and margaret warner examines what dissent within the ranks of oil producing nations means for oil prices here in the u.s. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newsho...