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At the Pa. Turnpike Commission, layoffs and other big business largely decided behind closed doors Jonathan D. Silver, The Philadelphia Inquirer © YONG KIM/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS A car exits the Pennsylvania Turnpike at the Valley Forge interchange 326 last June. On June 2, the Pennsylvania Turnpike commissioners gathered behind closed doors for a meeting that was about to dramatically change the lives of their workers. Other than a brief public statement that they had talked about “modifications to staffing levels and benefits,” there was little hint of what was...

Primary election 2021: Dauphin County races to watch include CD schools, Harrisburg council Updated May 13, 2021; Facebook Share This may be an off-year election, but in many parts of Dauphin County it’s off to a running start. The ballot is packed with an array of candidates for county, municipal, school district and district judge offices for Tuesday’s primary election. The action doesn’t just center on Harrisburg, either, although the ballots for the mayoral, city council and school board races in the city are crammed to bursting. While Rogette Harris, the chairwoman of the county...

Warehouse complex in Swatara Township gets the go-ahead from judge Updated Mar 04, 2021; One year after the Swatara Township Board of Commissioners unanimously rejected giving Mushroom Hill, LLC, a conditional use permit to construct a warehouse complex off Route 322, a Dauphin County judge sided with the applicant and appealed the commissioners’ vote. Commissioners are holding a special virtual meeting Thursday to review the decision of President Judge John F. Cherry. “We were stunned,” said Eric Epstein, a member of the Swarata Action Team. The team organized after learning of the pr...

Long-time activist and CD school board member announces plans to run for Dauphin County Controller Updated Feb 22, 2021; Facebook Share Activist Eric Epstein, who chairs the nuclear energy watchdog group Three Mile Island Alert Inc. and co-founded a government reform group, says he wants to become Dauphin County’s next county controller Epstein, who serves on the Central Dauphin School Board, said he plans to seek the Democratic party nomination in the May 18 primary election. “As County Controller, I will use my skill sets developed as a public interest advocate to procure fair and com...

Ana Roxanne drifts through an ethereal performance of ‘Venus’, live at Ambient Church A suitably ecstatic dedication to the healing properties of water. The team behind Ambient Church describe themselves as “a nomadic experiential event series dedicated to working with artists to bring new ecologies to architecturally unique spaces through transcendent audio and visual performance”. Taking place across various spaces throughout the US, Ambient Church has hosted a variety of Fact favourites, including Huerco S., Visible Cloaks, Steve Hauschildt, Juliana Barwick, Lawrence English, Ya...