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Advocacy groups Start Strong PA and Trying Together said the child care crisis affects the whole economy.
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Republican state lawmakers may soon decide which among the scores of potential amendments to the Pennsylvania Constitution will have any shot of making it to a voter referendum — a tactic that can get politically divisive policies around Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s much-used veto pen.
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A statewide hospital association had sued over the issue
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Democrats are amplifying their calls for greater restrictions on guns. Many Republican governors are instead emphasizing more security at schools.
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Pennsylvania officials want to bring more energy and manufacturing jobs to the state by building a Clean Hydrogen Hub in the region.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: The state’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission recently enacted regulations for charter schools and changes to wages for tipped workers, but leaders in Harrisburg are concerned the governor may be circumventing the legislative process with this body; a violence prevention program trained youth in Pittsburgh to be nonviolent community advocates; and artist and activist Lena Chen has a new art exhibit running through April 17.
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Republican candidates for Pennsylvania governor are pledging to open up natural gas production, but there are constraints to what a governor can do. While governors can influence state agencies and lawmaking, they have limited ability to make the major moves the industry really wants, such as building interstate pipelines and big processing facilities, because other states and federal policy are involved.
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A 2018 grand jury recommended the state temporarily lift legal time limits for survivors.
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Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature has failed in a last-ditch effort to block the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, a regulation requiring fossil fuel-fired power plants to pay a price for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit.