Shortly after rallying outside of the state Capitol to demand that legislators add health care staffing into the 2021-22 budget, nursing home workers from 12 different homes across the state have voted to strike next month.
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Harrisburg restaurateur faces fines, jail for pandemic-related fraud charges
A Dauphin County restaurant owner faces $2.6 million in fines and up to 90 years in prison after allegedly defrauding the federal government out of $237,500 in loans from the Small Business Administration.
Read More »P.J. Whelihan’s opens 19th location
The PJW Restaurant group held a grand opening for its sports bar concept on Union Deposit Road in Lower Paxton Township. It’s the 19th P.J. Whelihan’s restaurant in the chain and the 26th restaurant in the overall restaurant group.
Read More »Hiring sprees bringing thousands of jobs to the region
Amazon and the Giant Co. have announced they’ll be hiring thousands in the region and even a Lehigh Valley shopping center, The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley is hosting a job fair next week to meet the demand for workers.
Read More »Renovated Farm Show prepares to emerge from its COVID cocoon
The Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center is losing money because of Covid-19 cancellations, but when it opens up it will nicer, safer and greener. That's because $21 million in renovations have been able to continue during the slowdown.
Read More »Steven & Lee, Stevens & Lee/Griffin name new chairman
Ernie Choquette has been named chairman of Stevens & Lee and Stevens & Lee/Griffin.
Read More »1,500 net jobs lost in October: study
While economic indicators remain high for the U.S. economy as a whole, the central and southeastern Pennsylvania regions have been beset by tumultuous global trade and a weak manufacturing sector for the last year and a half, according to a recently published study by analysts at RKL, a business consulting firm based in Lancaster
Read More »Firm builds tools to ease financial stress for workers
Managers at Conrad Siegel looked at personal-finance statistics from a variety of sources and figured there must be a better way to help clients and their employees plan for a secure future.
Read More »Nuke debate expected to reignite this fall
Nuclear-industry advocates intend to regroup this summer and assess their best strategy for reintroducing legislation this fall to support nuclear plants, with the goal of giving state leaders time to debate whether to help the industry financially as deadlines near for closing the Beaver Valley plant in western Pennsylvania, several observers noted.
Read More »Runoff fees posing design, fiscal challenges
Is a stormwater fee in your municipal forecast?
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