A task force that’s been looking into lead contamination across the state has turned in its report…and lawmakers are responding with a package of bills designed to keep Pennsylvanians, especially children, safe. Don Rooney has details…
LEGISLATION TO HONOR THE EFFORTS OF A LATE BEAVER COUNTY LEADER PASSED THE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES YESTERDAY. HOUSE BILL 1281 WOULD OFFICIALLY DESIGNATE THE INTERSTATE 376 BRIDGE OVER THE OHIO RIVER IN VANPORT TOWNSHIP AS THE RICHARD L. SHAW MEMORIAL BRIDGE. SHAW – WHO PASSED AWAY DECEMBER 29TH, 2018 – WAS A WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN AND A LEADING FORCE IN THE DESIGNATION OF ROUTE 60 AS INTERSTATE 376, WHICH SPARKED SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BEAVER COUNTY. STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOSH KAIL – AUTHOR OF THE LEGISLATION – TALKED ABOUT THAT ON ‘RAPPING WITH THE REPS’ WITH FRANK SPARKS ON TELEFORUM THIS MORNING…
HOUSE BILL 1281 NOW MOVES TO THE SENATE FOR CONSIDERATION. IF SIGNED INTO LAW, PENNDOT WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR POSTING SIGNS THAT NOTE THE DESIGNATION.
General Motors is in talks with a potential buyer for its shuttered Lordstown Assembly Plant. The automaker confirmed yesterday that Cincinnati-based Workhorse wants to buy the facility to produce a line of electric trucks. State and local officials say, however, it’s not a done deal, because it’s dependent on a vehicle order from the U.S. Postal Service and lawsuit by the United Auto Workers.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — About a dozen of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s senior aides are starting his second term with pay raises that range from $25,000 to $33,000. The recipients include members of the Democratic governor’s public relations staff and deputy chiefs of staff who coordinate between the governor’s office and various executive branch departments. Wolf’s office says he approved the raises late last year, after winning re-election.
The Ellwood City Area School District will have two armed school police officers at its buildings starting next school year. Superintendent Joseph Mancini said Monday the district has been awarded a $156,400 grant from the School Safety and Security Committee of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency that will be paid over the next two years to cover the officers. Mancini said one officer will be stationed at Lincoln High School and the other will float between Hartman, North Side and Perry elementary schools.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, MAY 9TH, 2019
TODAY – CLOUDY SKIES THIS MORNING FOLLOWED BY
THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON.
HIGH – 82.
TONIGHT – THUNDERSTORMS. LOW – 64.
FRIDAY – SHOWERS AND A POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORM IN
THE MORNING WILL GIVE WAY TO CLOUDY SKIES
IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH NEAR 70.
SATURDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 64.
SUNDAY – STEADY RAIN SHOWERS. HIGH – 58.
(Beaver County, PA) The Best of Beaver County is easy to discover; it’s right on your radio! Tune in this and every Thursday from 11 to 11:30 A.M. for “The Best of Beaver County”, an innovative radio program on WBVP and WMBA presented by St. Barnabas. The show is hosted by Jim Roddey and is dedicated to shining light on the great things going on right here in local neighborhoods, and the people that are making it happen. Find out what all the buzz is about by joining “The Best Of Beaver County”. This Thursday, the discussion will center around two sisters who are making a difference in Beaver Falls, Ellen Dayan, owner and operator of the recently opened Tiger Lily Dress Shop, and Renee Suhr, proprietor and teacher at the Stray Cat pottery Studio and Gift Shop. Both ladies grew up near Buffalo, NY, and spent time elsewhere in their early adulthood, but have chosen Beaver County to put their business roots down. Their artistic gifts and drive to succeed are remarkable. Tune in, or watch to find out more Thursday starting at 11 A.M.!
A live video stream of this week’s edition of “The Best Of Beaver County” can be viewed on the WBVP-WMBA Facebook page, plus the radio broadcast will be replayed each Sunday from 11:30 am to Noon on Beaver County Radio.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says a New York Times report that his businesses lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994 is “highly inaccurate.” Trump tweeted Wednesday that real estate developers during that period were “entitled to massive write offs and depreciation” that would “show losses and tax losses in almost all cases.” He tweeted that much of those losses were “non monetary.” Trump said, “You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes” and “renegotiate with banks.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler says President Donald Trump’s assertion of executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is a clear escalation of his administration’s “blanket defiance” of Congress. Nadler spoke ahead of a committee vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for not turning over a fuller version of the Mueller report.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The owner of Three Mile Island, site of the United States’ worst commercial nuclear power accident, says it now appears certain it will not get a financial rescue from Pennsylvania and will proceed with a shutdown. Exelon Corp.’s Wednesday statement comes two years after the Chicago-based energy giant said it would close the money-losing plant without what critics have called a bailout. The shutdown is planned to start June 1.