If you start your day with milk or cream in your coffee, or Chobani yogurt, soon there will be a decent chance that it was produced at the dairy company’s new Lehigh Valley facility.

Chobani announced plans Tuesday to invest approximately $1.2 billion in a manufacturing and warehouse hub in Allentown, a project the New York-based company said will create more than 900 jobs over the next five years.

The expansion into the Lehigh Valley will see Chobani assuming operations of Keurig Dr Pepper’s manufacturing facility in Upper Machine Township. The company expects to produce approximately 3 billion pounds of milk per year (about 30% of all milk produced in the state) there, in addition to developing and manufacturing food products beyond yogurt.

Learn more about Chobani’s new Lehigh Valley facility and what it means for dairy farmers around the state, in this story.

Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company behind the nationwide network of cameras that record the license plate numbers and other characteristics of passing vehicles, is under scrutiny from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, civil liberties advocates, and citizens. Thousands of police agencies can use Flock data to support investigations. Advocates call it an important crime-fighting tool. Critics call it unnecessary mass surveillance. 

Lawmakers in Harrisburg are introducing legislation to curtail their use across the commonwealth, with Gov. Josh Shapiro in support of a statewide ban on the cameras, saying they are “not in the public interest.”

We’d like to know: Do Flock cameras make you feel safer—or more watched?

Here’s what you’re saying:

“I like them. Our town caught an arsonist due to the license plate cameras. I’m not concerned about my privacy—anyone can see my license plate anyway. The only people who should worry are people who are doing something that they shouldn’t. Simple I know, but that’s my opinion.” — Jeannette S., Telford

“They absolutely do not make me feel safer, especially as a woman. They put our communities at risk and violate our rights. They don’t stop crime, they cause it. Countless stories of police officers using flock cameras to stalk their ex-partners, even an innocent woman in Florida being thrown in jail after a flock camera wrongly identified her car.” — Mekala Joy, Cumberland County

“Flock cameras and similar ones definitely makes society safer. They’re used to solve crime all the time. However, there needs to be stricter regulations in the use of the cameras by law enforcement and other investigative entities that have access to it.” — Chris, Allegheny County

“I feel it is Big Brother government overreach to have constant surveillance and it makes me feel less safe, especially given the current GOP administration that doesn’t even obey the law!” — Beth Brill, Chester County

“More watched! Automatic license plate readers are fine for police work. It’s the private ownership of the company and the sharing of this data that is not okay.” — Jim Pell, Monroe County

Let us know how you feel about Flock cameras below.

The Pride of the Susquehanna riverboat cruises on the Susquehanna River during Harrisburg’s annual Kipona Festival, held every Labor Day weekend in Harrisburg. (David Flores/CC BY 2.0)

And just like that, Labor Day weekend will soon be upon us, and with it the opportunity to say goodbye to summer.

To help you do so, our food and travel writer Kalena Thomhave has rounded up 14 fun and free events happening across the commonwealth this Labor Day weekend, including parades, concerts, and good old-fashioned festivals.

• Our education reporter Ashley Adams takes a look at how “adequacy funding” is helping Pennsylvania’s public schools do more for students, even as the state’s tax credit “voucher” programs for private schools keep growing. Read Ashley’s story here.

• The latest tally finds that over 190,000 Pennsylvanians have dropped their healthcare coverage through Pennie, the commonwealth’s healthcare marketplace, since Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits expired at the end of last year. Find out more here.

• Pennsylvanians who use MyChart—a popular online patient portal used by many hospitals and healthcare providers—should be aware of a phishing scam offering patients a chance to claim a reward. Get the details here.

• A Montgomery County police officer was charged with voluntary manslaughter for last week’s fatal shooting of a college student who was looking for his friends late at night and went to the wrong house. Get the story here.

16-year-old restaurateur Gage Klein poses for a portrait with one of Driftwood’s signature menu items, the cheesesteak sub, at the company’s West York location on Wednesday, Aug. 19. (USA Today Network via Reuters Connect)

And here I considered waking up at 5 a.m. in the summer when I was 16 to round up shopping carts at the local Pathmark “hustling.”

Sixteen-year-old Gage Klein of York County owns not just one, but two restaurants in south-central Pa. With the help of his father, Klein just opened his second eatery, Driftwood at the Fairgrounds, in West York.

“He’s definitely a one of a kind kid,” Kris Klein, his father, said. 

Learn more about this restaurateur who’s not even old enough to vote.

Thanks for reading. This newsletter was written by Patrick Berkery with stories from Ashley Adams, Kalena Thomhave, Sean Kitchen, The Associated Press, USA Today via Reuters Connect, and Whitney Downard of the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. It was edited by Paula Solis.

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