Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto says Donald Trump is a bully after the president tweeted about teen activist Greta Thunberg. Mayor Peduto recently returned from Madrid at the UN’s latest climate change conference. Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was with the mayor at the conference when she was named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” President Trump tweeted Thursday about Greta’s designation.“So ridiculous,” Trump tweeted. “Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!” Peduto responded, “The president has chosen, even before he was the president, to use his bully pulpit as a bully”. Social media erupted.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Elizabeth Warren’s campaign is moving to become the first in the Democratic presidential primary to hire field staff and open field offices in Pennsylvania. It’s a late primary state that could become an important prize. Warren’s campaign said it has hired a Pennsylvania campaign strategist and will bring on staff and open a field office in Philadelphia in the coming weeks. Pennsylvania’s primary is April 28. It has the fifth-most Democratic primary delegates. Warren may have ground to make up in Pennsylvania. Former Vice President Joe Biden has his campaign headquarters in Philadelphia and deep political inroads in the state.

New businesses are coming soon to Center Township. We’re getting word this morning that a mini-strip mall is under construction in the Beaver Valley Mall parking lot. According to Center Township zoning officials, the mini-strip mall will include jewelry, mattress and Verizon stores. They say the new building should be finished around late spring or early summer.

This holiday season, AAA has a warning about getting your holiday tree home safely. Beaver County Radio News intern Alex D’Itri has more…

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bi-partisan bill to lower prescription drug prices. It’s called the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019. The legislation aims to lower prescription drug prices and improve Medicare for seniors and families across the country, including the creation of a $2,000 out-of-pocket limit on prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare Part D. In Pennsylvania, there are 2.1 million people enrolled in a Medicare Part D plan and 7.4 million people enrolled in private health insurance—all of whom stand to benefit from the passage of this legislation.

Beaver County’s 2020 budget passes with no tax increase. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

The Beaver County Courthouse will close at noon today for a safety training…so county residents with business at the courthouse will either have to do so this morning or wait until Monday. All courthouse employees will be undergoing safety training starting at 12 noon. The courthouse will re-open at 8:30 Monday morning.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13TH, 2019

 

 

TODAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF A RAIN
SHOWER. HIGH NEAR 40.

TONIGHT – CLOUDY WITH PERIODS OF RAIN. LOW – 37.

SATURDAY – MORNING RAIN FOLLOWED BY A MIX OF
RAIN AND SNOW IN THE AFTERNOON.
HIGH AROUND. 40.

SUNDAY – CLOUDY SKIES. TEMPS NEARLY STEADY IN THE
LOW TO MID 30‘S.

President Donald Trump says it’s “ridiculous” that Time named climate activist Greta Thunberg as its Person of the Year. He’s taking aim at the 16-year-old Swede in a tweet. He says she “must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend!” And he advises, “Chill Greta, Chill!” In response, Thunberg has changed her Twitter profile biography. It now describers her as “A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend.” She’s become the face of a new generation of environmental activists, drawing large crowds at protests and conferences.