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Letter to the Editor: Message from Kempton Post Office Postmaster

As we turn the page on the holidays, I want to thank our customers in Kempton PA 19529 for the patience, kindness, and support...
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No childcare teachers, no work: PA must invest to stop economic bleeding

Pennsylvania’s childcare teachers are the workforce behind the workforce. When they are in the classroom, parents can go to work with confidence, knowing that...
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Protectionist public notice bill could see legal ad “tax” levied by newspaper lobby

Last month, we exposed HB 1291, a bill designed to monopolize public notices by blocking digital media outlets. The bill creates a rigged ‘digital newspaper’...
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Yes, Virginia, there is a better way to modernize public notices

The Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association’s proposed “modernization” of PA’s public notice law is a poorly disguised attempt to translate the print paper monopoly into the...
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Proposed Pennsylvania Bill Could Limit Public Notice Publishing to Legacy Newspapers

A proposed update to Pennsylvania’s public notice laws has raised concerns among independent digital news publishers, including right here in Berks County. House Bill 1291,...
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Tracy Pennycuick: Sustaining Our EMS System

Submitted by Tracy Pennycuick - In 2021, in Berks and Montgomery counties, over 2 million emergency medical calls were made, according to the most...
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Turn frustration into action by supporting local journalism that gets results

When Luen Ng died at 75 after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Northeast Philadelphia, few people outside her family knew her story. But...
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America’s future depends on a thriving free press, and it’s time we take it back

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in...
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New partnership with Spotlight PA to provide Berks with more investigative and public-service journalism

For the past decade, there’s been nothing short of a crisis in our state capital. More and more of Pennsylvania’s sprawling and costly bureaucracy operated...
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