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Pa. Senate Majority Leader weighs in on midterm election, skill games and gift ban proposal (opens the original)
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With just five weeks until Election Day, Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman (R-Indiana) isnât worried that his party will lose control of the legislatureâs upper chamber. Instead, despite warnings of a âblue waveâ in November, he believes Senate Republicans will widen their four-seat edge. âWe have very strong incumbents that know how to reach their constituents and communicate with them,â Pittman told reporters on Monday. âOur incumbents know exactly what weâre doing, and weâ
Crisis calls and cow stress balls: A look at suicide prevention in Pennsylvania (opens the original)
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Editor's note: If you are experiencing thoughts of suicide, please call or text 988 to be connected to a crisis counselor free of charge 24/7. In the years before the COVID-19 pandemic, high school student Samhar Almomani was simply trying to survive in a country where being gay means a person could be targeted, arrested and harassed by government forces. But during his senior year in Jordan, Almomani said he was publicly outed by a teacher to his family, and he spiraled into a mental health cri
Pa. elections chief: 'Nothing has changed' following Trump mail-in ballot order (opens the original)
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Amid a national legal battle over the use of mail-in voting ahead of this year's midterm elections, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said this week that Pennsylvanians should be confident in the state's election process and security. "The Department of State remains committed to ensuring another free, fair, safe and secure election this November, and fighting any unlawful federal overreach into our elections," Schmidt said. "Despite the federal government's attempts, and while we recogni
Lawmakers wrestle with the proliferation of e-scooters on Pa. roadways (opens the original)
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Advances in battery technology and other innovations have made small, lightweight e-scooters designed to travel short distances cheaper — and faster — than ever, but Pennsylvania's legal code and safety regulations haven't kept up. The increasingly popular devices aren't legal to operate on public streets in the commonwealth, and critics say car and truck drivers may be unprepared to share the road with their smaller counterparts. "It's like the wild west out there," Scott Slingerland, the execu
Bipartisan legislative proposals would limit the use of Flock cameras in Pa. (opens the original)
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As public sentiment sours on automatic license plate readers — particularly cameras operated by Flock Safety — state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are introducing legislation to curtail their use across the commonwealth. A trio of bills introduced recently range from an outright ban on fixed cameras to stiffened penalties for unauthorized data access. The cameras, known as ALPRs for short, capture images of passing vehicles and upload them to a database police can search. Officers may the
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