From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): Expanded background checks continue to be a priority for CeaseFirePA — and judging by the polls, almost all Pennsylvanians. Currently you do not need any type of background check when buying a long gun (including rifles, shotguns … Continued
From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org): Join the ACE Program today! PennFuture’s “Advocates for Conservation and the Environment” (ACE) is a brand new non-partisan program organizing teams of volunteers to educate state and federal legislators about conservation and environmental issues. Now more than … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-02-13/climate-change-air-quality/racing-to-the-bottom-on-methane-emissions/a56354-1 February 13, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window DEP estimates the natural gas industry emitted 115,000 tons of methane in Pennsylvania in 2014. (Ruhrfisch/Wikimedia Commons) HARRISBURG, Pa. – Clean air … Continued
From Americans for Financial Reform (http://www.ourfinancialsecurity.org): Congressional opponents of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are threatening to block the CFPB’s prepaid card rule – a common sense rule to stop fraud and predatory overdraft charges on prepaid cards and to … Continued
From Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light (http://www.paipl.org): Starting March 1st, the annual Ecumenical Carbon Fast offers opportunities to honor the season of Lent by mindfully refraining from adding to our personal and communal carbon footprints (With thanks to the Massachusetts … Continued
From the Center for the Victims of Torture (http://www.cvt.org/): On Thursday, February 9, the Ninth Circuit Court handed down its ruling refusing to reinstate the Executive Order Banning Refugees. This is a positive step on a long journey to rescind … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2017/02/10/head-smacker-pentagon-buried-study-showing-125-billion-in-waste-but-congress-and-the-trump-administration-want-to-give-it-more-money/#.WJ3q-m8rIdU By Lecia Imbery February 10, 2017 According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon buried an internal study that found $125 billion in administrative waste because it was afraid Congress would use the findings to cut the defense budget. Despite … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-02-10/immigrant-issues/state-senate-passes-bill-to-punish-pa-sanctuary-cities/a56331-1 February 10, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window The ACLU says it has seen cases in which U.S. citizens have been held in Pennsylvania jails on erroneous ICE detainers. (Neil … Continued
From the National Partnership for Women and Families (http://www.nationalpartnership.org/site/PageServer): Families with children are all too aware of the urgent need for paid family and medical leave. So it is good news that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Rosa DeLauro reintroduced … Continued
Mother Jones “American public schools … were founded to maintain a pluralistic democracy and protect citizens against the tyranny of the majority. Advocates for the public education system argued that the unique American experiment wouldn’t work without it – that … Continued