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GOP proposes voter ID law

State House Republicans are firing the next salvo in their fight against automatic voter registration. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced his automatic voter registration via executive action in mid-September. Commonwealth residents who are obtaining new or renewed driver licenses and ID cards and ...

Thompson unhappy with House Speaker drama

House Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson tried to put a pretty bow on Republicans’ messy, days-long process to name Kevin McCarthy the Speaker of the House in January. Thompson, R-Bellafonte and Warren County’s representative in the House, was unwilling to do so Tuesday when eight Republicans ...

Efforts continue to highlight fate of POW/MIAs

There are over 81,000 American service personnel that are still considered Prisoners of War or Missing in Action. And there are still efforts underway to bring them home. Congressman Glenn Thompson entered a bi-partisan resolution earlier this month that aims “to ensure transparency and ...

Extinction

In the Nature Center, we have a room full of dead birds. It’s a small room, off a corner of the live animal room on the first floor. The birds are the collection of Ralph Simpson, a self-taught naturalist from Warren, Pennsylvania. He collected and preserved most of the specimens in the late ...

Steelers, Browns renew acquaintances

PITTSBURGH — The Cleveland Browns have won in Week 1 before. They’ve dominated opponents the way they dominated the Cincinnati Bengals last week before. What they haven’t done — at least not in the past 20 years during the regular season anyway — is beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on ...

Farm Bill Listening Session draws large crowd in New York

PORTLAND, N.Y. — It’s down to the wire for how Congress will impact farmers and agriculture for the next half decade. On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy, NY-23, and Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, PA-15, visited Cornell Cooperative Extension’s facility in Portland where they held a ...