Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is planning to unveil a universal childcare plan this week as she continues her run for the presidency. According to the Boston Globe, Warren will advocate for free childcare and early-learning – which would be paid for by taxing the wealthiest Americans. Details are forthcoming.

CONGRESSMAN CONOR LAMB WILL BE IN BEAVER COUNTY TONIGHT. LAMB WILL HOLD A TOWN HALL MEETING TONIGHT AT THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 641 IN BADEN. LAMB, YOU MAY RECALL, DEFEATED FORMER CONGRESSMAN KEITH ROTHFUS IN NOVEMBER FOR THE 17TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SEAT. LAMB’S OFFICE SAYS HE WILL SHARE UPDATES ON HIS WORK IN CONGRESS AND ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS. THE TOWN HALL BY LAMB IS SCHEDULED FOR 6 TO 7:30 TONIGHT IN THE POST’S LOWER HALL AT 271 STATE STREET. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO WILL BE THERE WILL HAVE A COMPLETE REPORT FOR TOMORROW MORNING ON AM BEAVER COUNTY.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, 2019

 

*** WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR BEAVER COUNTY FROM 1 AM TO NOON EST WEDNESDAY…MIXED PRECIPITATION EXPECTED. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 1 TO 3 INCHES AND ICE ACCUMULATION UP TO TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH EXPECTED. PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS. THE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS COULD IMPACT THE MORNING COMMUTE. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW, SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. ***

TODAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 34.

TONIGHT – CLOUDY. SNOW LIKELY LATE. ACCUMULATION
LESS THAN ONE INCH. LOW – 25.

WEDNESDAY – SNOW DURING THE MORNING WILL MIX WITH AND CHANGE TO RAIN DURING THE
AFTERNOON. SOME MIXED WINTER
PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE. SNOW
ACCUMULATING ONE TO THREE INCHES.
HIGH AROUND 40.

Sen. Bernie Sanders says he’s running for president in 2020
By JUANA SUMMERS, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he is running for president in 2020.
“Our campaign is not only about defeating Donald Trump,” the 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist said in an email to supporters. “Our campaign is about transforming our country and creating a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.”
An enthusiastic progressive who embraces proposals ranging from Medicare for All to free college tuition, Sanders stunned the Democratic establishment in 2016 with his spirited challenge to Hillary Clinton. While she ultimately became the party’s nominee, his campaign helped lay the groundwork for the leftward lurch that has dominated Democratic politics in the Trump era.
The question now for Sanders is whether he can stand out in a crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates who also embrace many of his policy ideas and are newer to the national political stage. That’s far different from 2016, when he was Clinton’s lone progressive adversary.
Still, there is no question that Sanders will be a formidable contender for the Democratic nomination. He won more than 13 million votes in 2016 and dozens of primaries and caucuses. He opens his campaign with a nationwide organization and a proven small-dollar fundraising effort.
“We’re gonna win,” Sanders told CBS in interview to be broadcast Tuesday morning.
And Sanders could be well positioned to compete in the nation’s first primary in neighboring New Hampshire, which he won by 22 points in 2016. But he won’t have the state to himself.
Sen. Kamala Harris of California, another Democratic presidential contender, was in New Hampshire on Monday and said she’d compete for the state. She also appeared to take a dig at Sanders.
“The people of New Hampshire will tell me what’s required to compete in New Hampshire,” she told shoppers at a bookstore in Concord. “But I will tell you I’m not a democratic socialist.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of nearby Massachusetts will be in New Hampshire on Friday.
One of the biggest questions surrounding Sanders’ candidacy is how he’ll compete against someone like Warren, who shares many of his policy goals. Warren has already launched her campaign and has planned an aggressive swing through the early primary states.
Shortly after announcing her exploratory committee, Warren hired Brendan Summers, who managed Sanders’ 2016 Iowa campaign. Other staffers from Sanders’ first bid also have said they would consider working for other candidates in 2020.
The crowded field includes a number of other candidates who will likely make strong appeals to the Democratic base including Harris and Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. The field could also grow, with a number of high-profile Democrats still considering presidential bids, including former Vice President Joe Biden and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke.
While Sanders had been working to lay the groundwork for a second campaign for months, it was unclear whether he will be able to expand his appeal beyond his largely white base of supporters. In 2016, Sanders notably struggled to garner support from black voters, an issue that could become particularly pervasive during a primary race that could include several non-white candidates.
Last month, he joined Booker at an event in Columbia, South Carolina, marking the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. In 2016, Sanders lost the South Carolina primary, which features a heavily black electorate, by 47 points.
Sanders also faces different pressures in the #MeToo era. Some of his male staffers and supporters in 2016 were described as “Bernie bros” for their treatment of women.
In the run-up to Sanders’ 2020 announcement, persistent allegations emerged of sexual harassment of women by male staffers during his 2016 campaign. Politico and The New York Times reported several allegations of unwanted sexual advances and pay inequity.
In an interview with CNN after the initial allegations surfaced, Sanders apologized but also noted he was “a little busy running around the country trying to make the case.”
As additional allegations emerged, he offered a more unequivocal apology.
“What they experienced was absolutely unacceptable and certainly not what a progressive campaign — or any campaign — should be about,” Sanders said Jan. 10 on Capitol Hill. “Every woman in this country who goes to work today or tomorrow has the right to make sure that she is working in an environment which is free of harassment, which is safe and is comfortable, and I will do my best to make that happen.”

Police seek people who used farm tractor to kill cow
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — State police are trying to find the people who used a piece of farm machinery to impale an Angus cow and then left the animal to die on a western Pennsylvania farm.
Police in Westmoreland County say the incident occurred between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Feb. 12 at a Hempfield Township farm.
Trooper Stephen Limani called the perpetrator “extremely cruel.” He told the Tribune-Review on Monday that the person also had to know how to work a hydraulic lift that was on the farm tractor.
Limani told the Tribune-Review that investigators believe that the cow was impaled by the tractor’s two forks. He said police believe the act was deliberate and more than one person was involved. Police said the cow was valued at about $1,000.

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

Over the last several years–in Beaver County and across the nation–school safety has become a rising concern. With more access and platforms for kids to potentially do something dangerous without repercussion, the stories about cyberbullying, guns in school, and overall disruption have increased and become more rapid.

Thus brought together dozens of school teachers, administrators, and local law enforcement officers for the Safe School Symposium at the Community College of Beaver County Learning Resources Center on February 18. During the presentation, those in attendance went thoroughly through the step-by-step process of handling these dangerous situations in which school students can use various platforms (like social media) to create danger and mischief.

The meeting was spearheaded by a panel of several different County leaders, including Freedom Superintendent Jeff Fuller, Beaver County DA David J. Lozier, and Western Beaver Superintendent Dr. Robert Postupac (also the chair of the CCBC Board of Trustees). The meeting was also attended by several sponsors; among them Frye Transportation, CCBC, and New Horizon School.

For audio from today’s Symposium, click the player below.

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Four decades after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America’s worst commercial nuclear power accident, financial rescues of nuclear power plants are stirring the highest levels of government. Legal appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court and a debate among federal energy regulators over protecting ratepayers are loose ends dangling as Pennsylvania lawmakers prepare to decide whether to help their state’s nuclear power plants.

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