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(The Center Square) - A deeply divided state House on Monday gave final approval to a bill to require school districts to prohibit student cell phone use during the school

HARRISBURG — A deeply divided state House on Monday gave final approval to a bill to require school districts to prohibit student cell phone use during the school day, with exceptions. The issue divided lawmakers within parties. Lawmakers who are parents said it had been discussed in their homes. The sponsor of the bill, Democratic Rep. Mandy Steele of Allegheny County, said in an interview before the voting session that school...

(The Center Square) - Bipartisan sentiment to tap the brakes on data center development appears to be growing among Pennsylvania's top elected leaders.

(The Center Square) - Groups of terrified and crying friends and workers stood on debris-strewn streets, clutching each other for support.

(The Center Square) - Groups of terrified and crying friends and workers stood on debris-strewn streets, clutching each other for support. Who was dead and who was alive was still not known. Bluish flames spewed from the rubble of the building that had just exploded. That was the scene in a working-class neighborhood in West Reading, Pennsylvania, on March 24, 2023, soon after the explosion of an R.M. Palmer chocolate...

(The Center Square) - Less than a month before the deadline to finalize a budget for a state with a roughly $5 billion deficit, a potential new source of revenue

A deeply divided state House early this week gave final approval to a bill to require school districts to prohibit student cellphone use during the school day, with exceptions.

HARRISBURG — Less than a month before the deadline to finalize a budget for a state with a roughly $5 billion deficit, a potential new source of revenue for Pennsylvania has been put into play by House Democrats: taxing digital ads. A Democratic-run committee on Wednesday approved a bill to do just that, with some members saying it could generate more than $500 million in new tax revenue a year. The...

(The Center Square) - A plan to tax digital advertising for the first time and use the estimated $500 million in new annual revenue to give property tax rebates to

(The Center Square) - A fight has broken out in northeastern Pennsylvania over the future of lovely, forested Clinton Township - a future that could include 20 data center buildings and two power plants - but some residents are dismayed by the way their township is conducting the fight.