Representative Bryan Lentz, the Democratic nominee for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, announced today that he would be hosting a town hall forum on economic issues this Saturday in Wayne where he would be listening to voters’ concerns and sharing his plans to help jump start the economy. The forum will be held at...
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Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced that Secretary of Administration Naomi Wyatt will resign effective July 30 to become vice president for business development at Electronic Ink, a Philadelphia-based international business system design firm. Wyatt was appointed as secretary of administration in August 2007. She previously served as the Office of Administration’s deputy secretary for...
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Weather permitting, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Delaware County Intercommunity Health Coordination will apply treatments the evening of Wednesday, July 21, in portions of Upper Chichester and Lower Chichester townships to control adult mosquito populations. The rain date for this application is Thursday, July 22. Adult mosquitoes in these areas have tested positive...
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State legislator Bryan Lentz further confirmed that he will serve as a rubber stamp to policies supported by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she visited Philadelphia for an exclusive fundraiser to boost Lentz’ campaign for Congress. “While Bryan Lentz will be rubber stamp for Nancy Pelosi’s agenda in Congress, Pat Meehan will serve as a...
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Attorney General Tom Corbett today joined the Attorneys General from Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin in a federal lawsuit against the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, seeking immediate action to prevent the spread of Asian Carp into the Great Lakes. According to the lawsuit, the...
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More than $10 billion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds flowing through state agencies in Pennsylvania was invested by the end of the second quarter of 2010, Governor Edward G. Rendell said today. That translates into an investment of more than $2,000 per household in the state. In the second quarter alone, 16,420...
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National Penn Bank is the sponsor of the popular SCORE workshop series, “How to Start and Operate a Small Business”  scheduled to  be presented from 7:00 to 9:30 pm on four consecutive Monday evenings beginning on September 13.  All classes are held at the Pottstown SCORE office in the New York Plaza building...
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Bryan Lentz, the Democratic nominee for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, was joined by members of the Building Trades today as they called on Pat Meehan to renounce Tom Corbett’s statement that construction workers were avoiding work in order to remain on unemployment.  Corbett made the comments last Friday while explaining his opposition to...
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Pennsylvania’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 9.2 percent in June, unchanged from the revised May rate. Pennsylvania’s rate remained below the national rate of 9.5 percent and has been at or below the national rate for 87 of the past 90 months. The state rate was up 1 percentage point from June 2009, while the...
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