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Talking about anything but impeachment

  • Ed Mahon
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-6, at a rally in Philadelphia during her first run for office, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018.

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-6, at a rally in Philadelphia during her first run for office, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018.

Spotlight PA reporter Charlotte Keith finds that a lucrative tax break, part of the 2017 GOP tax bill signed by President Trump, isn’t delivering for many places that most need it. I’ll have a story out Tuesday looking at the same tax credit through the lens of one city, Erie, where local leaders have managed to lure new investment. Charlotte and I are scheduled to talk about our stories this week on WITF’s “Smart Talk,” a live radio show. Stay tuned for details. –Ed Mahon, PA Post reporter

Swing district reps tread carefully

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U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-6, is shown here at a rally in Philadelphia during her first run for office, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press)

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Dominick Cerminaro, left, leads his sons, Paul Cerminaro, center left, Santo Cerminaro, center right, and his father, Santo Cerminaro, right, into the woods to go deer hunting on the first day of regular firearms deer hunting season in most of Pennsylvania, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 in Zelienople, Pa.

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Dominick Cerminaro, left, leads his sons, Paul, center left, Santo, center right, and his father, Santo, right, into the woods to go deer hunting on the first day of regular firearms deer hunting season in most of Pennsylvania, in November 2018 in Zelienople, Pa. (Keith Srakocic / AP Photo)

  • State officials are warning hunters and anglers to watch out for fraudulent licensing websites. The state encourages hunters to be extra careful when submitting private and financial information on third-party websites, Rachel McDevitt reports for WITF.

  • WESA’s Lucy Perkins looks at the impact the Trump administration’s protectionist trade policies have had on the steel industry. Perkins describes mixed results, and during a recent visit to western Pa., Trump administration officials declined to cite local examples of new job creation.

  • Some school districts in Pennsylvania could lose millions of dollars because of deals they agreed to with RBC Capital Markets, The Inquirer’s Joseph N. DiStefano reports. I wrote about one of these interest-rate swap deals several years ago, after the 2008 financial crisis. That deal ended up costing the State College Area School District in Centre County $9 million.

  • A teacher in Delaware County was placed on leave for yelling “a slew of expletives and racist remarks” after a fender bender in the school’s parking lot, NBC News reports.

  • For the first time in more than a generation, unionized workers at Mack Truck operations in Pa. and two other states are on strike. The strike comes as demand for big trucks is starting to decline, according to The Morning Call’s Jon Harris. “Mack already was planning to put the Lower Macungie plant on temporary layoff for two weeks during the fourth quarter,” he writes.


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