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State agriculture committee says Wolf administration has agreed to open PA Farm Show Complex, but offered no timetable on when Keith Schweigert Replay Video Note: The video is from April 29. Members of the Pennsylvania House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee on Thursday announced that the Wolf administration agreed in an email to re-open the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex. The email arrived Tuesday, minutes before the start of a press conference convened by committee members Reps. Dave Zimmerman (R-Lancaster), Dan Moul (R-Adams), Clint Owlett (R- Bradford/Potter/Tioga) a...

Mutual Aid Efforts Are Working to Fill the Gaps of Biden’s COVID Response Volunteer Miriam Lopez Ambrosio, a dancer from Oaxaca, Mexico, assists a person with their second vaccination appointment on their phone at a clinic targeting Central American Indigenous residents on April 10, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama / Getty Images We’ll take what we can get. This seems to be the general sentiment around the Biden administration’s response to COVID. We didn’t get $2,000 stimulus checks as originally promised, but we’ll take the $1,400. They didn’t raise...

Simran Jeet Singh Chris Stedman is a friend. He’s an activist, a community organizer, and a writer. He’s the author of IRL – which is short for in real life – Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives. He’s also the author of Faitheist, which is the first book of his that I read. Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious. He’s written for multiple outlets, including The Guardian, the Atlantic, Pitchfork, Buzzfeed, et cetera. And he is formerly the founding executive director of the Yale humanist community and served as a Humanist Chaplain...

bcox@lewistownsentinel.com LEWISTOWN — During a brief special meeting Friday, the Municipal Authority of the Borough of Lewistown Board of Directors voted to repeal a resolution enacted at Monday’s special meeting that sought to have Lewistown Borough take over the authority’s debt for the purpose of refinancing. The board’s discussion centered around the need to have funding available for MABL’s capital improvement projects. Under the resolution, it seemed as though MABL would have been forced to seek approval from Lewistown Borough for any expenditures. Engineer Pat Ward said ther...

The legislation would exempt some child-run businesses from municipal regulation and licensing. Author: Chelsea Koerbler (FOX43) Updated: 8:36 AM EDT April 9, 2021 HARRISBURG, Pa. — A state lawmaker has introduced a bill to "save the lemonade stands." He said it will help children keep their entrepreneurial spirit.  "In certain cases, there are municipalities that get a little bit power hungry and really like to offer our kids lemons and we're trying to make lemonade out of those lemons," State Rep. John Hershey, a Republican representing Juniata, Franklin, ...