HARRISBURG – May 1, 2013 – The state Senate has unanimously passed a resolution marking May as “Lupus Awareness Month,” state Sen. Tim Solobay said today. “This resolution is designed to draw attention to a disease that affects over 65,000 Pennsylvanians - and one out of every 185 Americans – yet often goes hidden [...]
Continue Reading →HARRISBURG – May 1, 2013 – State Sen. Tim Solobay is teaming up with state Rep. Pam Snyder and the Greene County Commissioners to bring two popular household waste recycling events to Greene County. A document shredding event will be held from 9 a.m. until noon on May 30 and an electronics recycling event will [...]
Continue Reading →HARRISBURG – April 30, 2013 – State Sen. Tim Solobay today praised a bi-partisan effort to raise awareness about the more than one million Pennsylvanians who are “food insecure.” Solobay, a member of the legislature’s Hunger Caucus, participated in the fourth annual planting of the Capitol Area Hunger Garden on the state Capitol grounds. “My [...]
Continue Reading →HARRISBURG – April 30, 2013 – A state Senate committee today approved Sen. Tim Solobay’s legislation to allow volunteer firefighters’ relief association funds to be used to pay for the costs related to advanced life support (ALS) or paramedic (EMT-P) training. “I’m grateful that my colleagues share my concern that we need to do what [...]
Continue Reading →RICHHILL TWP. – April 24, 2013 – An agreement that will restore Duke Lake in Ryerson Station State Park is a triumph of collaboration over confrontation, state Sen. Tim Solobay said today. “The people who worked this out were committed to avoiding an ugly and drawn-out battle and to restoring Duke Lake as quickly as [...]
Continue Reading →HARRISBURG – April 24, 2013 – A project to protect a Washington County waterway from sewage contamination has been approved for a $2.6 million, low-interest state loan, Sen. Tim Solobay and Rep. Jesse White announced today. Pennsylvania’s Infrastructure Investment Authority (PennVEST) approved the loan for Burgettstown-Smith Joint Sewer Authority at a meeting in Harrisburg today. [...]
Continue Reading →Harrisburg, April 17, 2013 – Senate Democrats’ 2013-14 budget priorities are heavily weighted toward job creation, education investments, strengthening the social-services safety net, modernizing liquor sales and refocusing Pennsylvania’s business tax menu to help small businesses, they announced today at a Capitol news conference. Senate Democratic Leader Jay Costa (D-Allegheny) said that Senate Democrats will go [...]
Continue Reading →HARRISBURG – April 17, 2013 – State Sen. Tim Solobay praised this week’s committee approval of a bill that would regulate Pennsylvania’s plumbing industry to protect both consumers and experienced contractors. “Homeowners should be able know whether someone running a plumbing business has the training and experience to do the job,” Solobay said. “As it [...]
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