Ian Karbal, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Latest from Ian Karbal, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
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What’s at stake over proposed increase in mass transit funding in Pa.?
“If they cut the 32 bus especially, there goes my job. There goes my place to live. It’d put my freedom on the line.”
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Brian Fitzpatrick is only Pa. Republican to oppose Trump’s budget bill
The collar county congressman objected to Medicaid cuts added by the U.S. Senate.
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State House advances bill to increase minimum wage in Pennsylvania
The state House is inching closer to passing a bill to raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania, an outcome long sought by Democrats and opposed by Republicans.
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Job cuts reversed at Pittsburgh lab that certifies nation’s respirators
Federal employees had been preparing to shutter the lab in June.
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Deadline to register to vote in May 20 primaries only two weeks away
The upcoming primaries will determine which candidates advance in a host of local and statewide races that will be held in November.
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Measles cases up in Pa. and some counties lag behind school vaccination targets
In many counties, measles vaccination rates among school-aged children are below 95%, the target for herd immunity. And rates have been declining since the COVID-19 pandemic.
