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Innamorato, Muth host briefing on SW PA childhood cancer
HARRISBURG, November 18, 2019 – Over the last decade at least 67 children in rural southwestern Pennsylvania have been diagnosed with rare childhood cancers, diagnoses that coincided with the rapid development of the Marcellus Shale gas fields across the Allegheny region.
Muth Announces $4,468,863 in Transportation Funding for Montgomery and Chester Counties
Royersford – November 12, 2019 – Sen. Katie Muth announced $4,468,863 in multimodal transportation grant funding for Montgomery and Chester Counties in the 44th Senatorial District. “These grants will ensure we have the funds to drastically improve pedestrian and...
Muth, Bradford Announce Funding for Valley Forge Road Improvement
Royersford – November 12, 2019 – Sen. Katie Muth (D-Berks, Chester, Montgomery) and Rep. Matt Bradford (D-Montgomery) announced funding for the Valley Forge Road (SR 0363) Corridor Improvement Project has been awarded through the Multimodal Transportation Fund....
Otten, Muth Announce $315K Grant Award to East Pikeland Township to Increase Pedestrian Safety
EAST PIKELAND − November 12, 2019 – State Rep. Danielle Friel Otten and state Sen. Katie Muth today announced that East Pikeland Township will receive $315,000 from the Multimodal Transportation Fund to increase pedestrian safety along state routes 23 and 724....
Lawmakers talking death penalty at State Capitol
Executions have become a rarity in Pennsylvania with Governor Tom Wolf instituting a moratorium on the death penalty. Now, some lawmakers want to take it a step further and abolish the death penalty in the state.
A Pennsylvania inmate has not been executed this century with the last one happening in 1999, but there are still plenty of inmates sitting on death row and some lawmakers think it’s doing more harm than good.
Pa. AG Shapiro holds roundtable on Title X at Planned Parenthood office
LOWER POTTSGROVE — Attorney General Josh Shapiro was in Lower Pottsgrove Friday to discuss reproductive rights and Title X funding.
“Every day we are fighting in court to protect women’s rights and particularly to protect healthcare and reproductive rights. Fights that we’ve won, 20, 30, 40 years ago, we’re fighting again,” Democrat Shapiro said to the group.
PA Legislators Propose Abolishing The Death Penalty
Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania have announced legislation that would abolish the death penalty in the state.
In presenting the Death Penalty Repeal Act, legislators argued that too many innocent inmates wound up death row due to an imperfect justice system.
Sen. Muth: End Pa. death penalty
A state senator whose district includes portions of Chester, Montgomery and Berks counties joined two Philadelphia legislators Tuesday in calling for the end of the death penalty in Pennsylvania.
State Sen Katie Muth, D-44th, of Royersford, announced the introduction of a bill that would repeal the use of capital punishment in the state, alongside state Sen. Sharif Street, D-3rd, and state Rep. Christopher Rabb, D-200th, both of Philadelphia.