(File Photo of 15th District Rep. Josh Kail from previous appearance at Beaver County Radio)
Story by Frank Sparks, News/Program Director, Beaver County Radio 
(Harrisburg, Pa.) Pa State Rep. Josh Kail (15th) joined other legislators at a press conference yesterday morning in Harrisburg to discuss legislation and policy initiatives that will have Pennsylvania divest from Russia and invest in freedom by empowering Pennsylvania energy production.

Kail said we should not have any foreign interference when it comes to our policies, and he will soon be proposing a bill to ensure that in our energy sector.

You can see Kail’s speech below from yesterday’s Divesting from Russia and Investing in Freedom Press Conference:

(Video used with permission of Rep. Kail)

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(Pittsburgh, Pa.) Pittsburgh councilman Ricky Burgess is sponsoring a bill that would impose a 1% tax on people seeking higher education and those receiving medical care in the City Of Pittsburgh. The reason for the bill would be to have the money from the tax go toward a new fund to repair roads and bridges in the city.
the tax is estimated to bring in more than $50 million each year for the city.
Any students attending colleges, universities and advanced technical schools in the city would be required to pay. Additionally, people receiving services at hospitals, clinics, rehab facilities and “any other facility furnishing medical, therapeutic, psychological or vocational care” would face the extra cost. It would be applied to the full tuition amount at colleges and universities, and the full amount of medical bills.

(Pittsburgh, Pa.) 30-year-old Dejuan Hill, of Aliquippa appeared in federal court on Monday and he was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute a half-kilogram or more of cocaine. He was also found guilty of a weapons violation due to a prior drug trafficking conviction in which he is no longer able to possess a firearm.
Prosecutors said that 49-year-old Cadee Akins of Monaca, who also appeared in Federal Court on Monday to plead guilty to drug charges, supplied Hill with cocaine between 2018 and 2020. During the course of the investigation, law enforcement conducted three controlled buys of cocaine from Hill at his home on Ann Street in Aliquippa.
A federal search warrant, issued after the drug buys also turned up a loaded handgun with an extended magazine containing 23 rounds of .45 caliber ammunition.

(Pittsburgh, Pa.) 49-year-old Cadee Akins Sr. of Monaca, plead guilty on Monday in Federal Court to a charge of cocaine possession with intent to distribute. Akins was accused of distributing five or more kilograms of cocaine between November 2017 and September 2020 to multiple people, who in distributed it to lower-level drug dealers.
Investigators said they recovered an “owe sheet” from a residence Akins used, identifying other conspirators and money they owed him.
Two separate traffic stops on Akins also yielded two kilograms of cocaine and more than $50,000.
Judge Cathy Bissoon schedule Akins’ sentencing for July 13 at 10 a.m

The featured image above shows Bethany Williams in the WBVP studio.
Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published March 8, 2022 9:15 P.M.

(Beaver Falls, PA) The Beaver Falls City Council met for a meeting Tuesday evening.  Director of Community Development, Bethany Williams, announced that she will soon be leaving her position. Williams will pursue an opportunity offered to her as a Local Government Policy Specialist of Southwestern PA. She said that she will be able to “continue to support the city from the state level”, and it is hard to leave her dream job.  Mayor Johns and the rest of council congratulated and thanked Williams for all she has done for Beaver Falls.  Two repository purchase decisions were also made during the meeting.  The purchase of 1809 13th Avenue was approved, while the proposed purchase of 615 2nd Avenue was tabled for the time being.

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Walmart has announced plans for a large fulfilment center in central Pennsylvania that the company says will bring as many as 600 permanent full-time jobs to the area. Walmart said the 1.8 million-square-foot-plus facility in Franklin County’s Southampton Township near Shippensburg is scheduled to open in the spring of this year. Fulfillment centers store millions of items that are picked, packed and shipped directly to customers, unlike the company’s distribution centers that store and distribute products to Walmart stores. The company said the new center is part of a move to add more capacity to Walmart’s supply chain amid growth in the eCommerce sector.

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By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a victory for Democrats, the Supreme Court has turned away efforts from Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to block state court-ordered congressional districting plans. In separate orders late Monday, the justices are allowing maps selected by each state’s Supreme Court to be in effect for the 2022 elections. Those maps are more favorable than the ones drawn by the states’ legislatures. In North Carolina, the map most likely will give Democrats an additional House seat in 2023. The Pennsylvania map also probably will lead to the election of more Democrats, the Republicans say, as the two parties battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm elections.