Two towns, a nuclear reactor and a pizza place

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  Ed Mahon comes to Spotlight PA from PA Post, where he covered state politics and policy, produced radio stories that were broadcast on public media stations throughout the state and on NPR’s national newscasts, and co-wrote a weekday newsletter. Prior to joining PA Post, Ed worked for six years as an investigative and political reporter for the York Daily Record, part of the USA Today Network. His reporting on failures in Pennsylvania’s system for protecting domestic abuse victims was a finalist in the national 2018 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in the local reporting category. He was also part of a team whose coverage of the criminal justice system, including the aggressive use of civil asset forfeiture by York County prosecutors, received the 2018 G. Richard Dew Award for Journalistic Service from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. Before joining the York Daily Record, Ed covered K-12 education at the Centre Daily Times in State College and worked as a stringer for suburban sections of The Philadelphia Inquirer. He grew up in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

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David Kitner works inside his pizza shop in Middletown on Friday, March 1, 2019.

From The Context, PA Post’s weekday email newsletter:

‘It sounds small. But it’s big numbers.’

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David Kitner works inside his pizza shop in Middletown on Friday, March 1, 2019.

• David Kitner has a pizza shop in Middletown, about three miles away from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Each year, workers at the plant order a lot of food from him — they account for about 10 to 15 percent of his business’ revenue.

• He’s one of the people concerned about the ripple effects of Three Mile Island closing this year — which owner Exelon says will happen unless state lawmakers intervene.

• But the head of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber says the potential number of jobs lost if TMI closes is “not that big of a number” when you look at the entire region. Exelon is not one of the top 10 employers in the county.

• If you’re interested in who the biggest employers are across the state and in each county, PennLive has this handy list.

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In this July 16, 2015, file photo, Pennsylvania state Rep. Gene DiGirolamo, R-Bucks, discusses a state budget stalemate during a news conference at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa.

• Another moderate Republican from the Philly suburbs might be leaving the state Capitol, WITF’s Katie Meyer reports. Rep. Gene DiGirolamo is running for Bucks County commissioner this year.

• The U.S. Attorney for Pennsylvania’s Middle District has flagged more than 300 doctors for potentially overprescribing opioids. Transforming Health reporter Brett Sholtis has the details.

• You don’t often hear about news breaking this way. Phil Heron, editor of the Delaware County Daily Times, got called as a potential juror — for an investigative grand jury. The topic? Mariner East natural gas liquids pipelines. It’s a topic that his newsroom and others have written a lot about. “I nearly fell off my chair,” Heron writes.