Pennsylvania
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Check Out Where Chesco Ranks Among Counties with Most Students at Penn State’s Main Campus
Chester County ranks among the Top 10 counties in Pennsylvania with the most students at Penn State’s main campus, as it currently has 3,026 students in University Park, writes Derek Bannister for Onward State. Main campus is home to a highly diverse population of close to 46,000 students from all 50 states and more than…
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Opioid Overdose an ‘Equal Opportunity Offense’ as Hospital Admissions in 55-and-Older Crowd Triples
A new study by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council examines patients admitted to Pennsylvania hospitals for opioid overdoses based on age, ethnicity/race, and socio-economic status, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Among the findings, the study found that the biggest jump for heroin overdose admissions was in Hispanic residents, up 48.8…
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PennDOT Begins Pre-Qualifying Residents Who Need To Fly for Real IDs
Today, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will start pre-qualifying residents who want to receive Real IDs when they become available in March, according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Real ID driver’s license meets federal anti-terrorism standards and will allow Pennsylvanians to board commercial airliners, as well as enter certain secure federal buildings.…
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Check Out Which Local High Schools Send the Most Students to Harvard, Princeton, MIT
Fifteen of the Top 20 high schools in Pennsylvania that send the most students to Harvard, Princeton, and MIT are located in southeastern Pennsylvania, according to a staff report from the Philadelphia Business Journal. New research from PolarisList ranks high schools nationwide on the number of their students who matriculated into the aforementioned institutions, which…
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Victory’s Co-Founder Emphasizes Importance of Taprooms for Future of Craft Beer
Bill Covaleski, the co-founder of Downingtown-based Victory Brewing, emphasized the importance of taprooms for the future of craft beer at the seventh annual Meeting of the Malts in Bethlehem, writes Brian Pedersen for Lehigh Valley Business. The event, hosted by The Brewers of Pennsylvania, celebrates achievements in the industry and explores the latest trends and…
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Where Does Pennsylvania Rank Among the Hardest-Working States in America? Hint: It’s Not Good
With Americans working an average of almost 1,800 hours per year and 52 percent of workers not using all their available vacation time, WalletHub compiled its report on 2018’s Hardest-Working States in America. In order to determine where Americans work the hardest, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 10 key metrics, which range from average…
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Chester County Home to One of 15 Adorable Small Towns in Pennsylvania You Need to Visit
Kennett Square is among the 15 Adorable Small Towns in Pennsylvania You Need to Visit, writes Cassandra Douglas for Narcity, an online publisher that creates content for millennials in Canada and the U.S. The Mushroom Capital of the World is ideal for food aficionados as it produces more than one million pounds of mushrooms every…
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Wall Street Journal: Jefferson’s Treasury Secretary from Western Pennsylvania Legacy of Thrift Led to Shipwrecks, Higher Taxes
Jefferson’s Treasure by Gregory May tells the story of Albert Gallatin, the former Treasury secretary and longtime resident of western Pennsylvania who managed one of the nation’s least-satisfying trade policies, writes Roger Lowenstein for The Wall Street Journal. During his 12 years under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Gallatin had to deal with the Embargo…
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Here’s How Pennsylvanians Use Their Vacation Days … if They’re Using Them at All
Fewer than half of Pennsylvanians use their vacation days to get away, according to a recently published report, writes Maria Gomez for the Philadelphia Business Journal. “Under-Vacationed America: A State-by-State Look at Time Off” – a report powered by the U.S. Travel Association – also found that only around half of Pennsylvanians use all of…
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Check Out Where Pennsylvania Ranks Among Best, Worst States for Women’s Equality
Pennsylvania placed 29th among 2018’s Best & Worst States for Women’s Equality, a list published by WalletHub. After the U.S. fell four places to 49th out of the 144 countries on the Global Gender Gap Index, WalletHub examined the situation internally to find where in American society women receive the most equal treatment. WalletHub then…
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Chester County Home to Nine of State’s Top 50 Public High Schools, Including No. 1
Nine high schools in Chester County are among the Top 50 public high schools in Pennsylvania for 2019, according to a list recently published by Niche.com. The rankings are based on rigorous analysis of data on academic and student life, as well as test scores, college data, and ratings from millions of users. Conestoga topped…
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Average Student Debt in Pennsylvania the Highest in the Nation
The average student debt in Pennsylvania is the highest in the nation, checking in at more than $35,000 per student for the second consecutive year, write Alison Burdo and Craig Ey for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Even more troubling is the debt carried by those who earn a bachelor’s degree from the state’s public universities.…
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New Study: Pennsylvania the Least Baby Friendly State in America
Pennsylvania ranks 26th among the best states to have a baby, despite being the least baby friendly state in the nation, according to an analysis recently published by WalletHub. To determine the ranking for its 2018’s Best & Worst States to Have a Baby, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across…
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Kathi Cozzone Elected President of County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania
Chester County Commissioner Kathi Cozzone was recently elected to serve as President of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania for 2019. The announcement of the election results was made this week at CCAP’s 132nd annual conference in Adams County. Commissioner Cozzone is currently First Vice President of the organization, and she will begin the transition…
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Viewing Small-Town Pennsylvania Through the Lens of an Immigrant
Niko Kallianiotis, a Greek-born photographer who has lived in Scranton since 1999, has been documenting small-town Pennsylvania through his camera since 2015, writes Michael Hardy for Wired magazine. During his journey, he did not shy away from focusing his lens on the closed shops and abandoned factories that can be found in many small towns…
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State Lawmakers Offer No Relief as Suburban School Districts Continue to Impose Tax Hikes
With no fix forthcoming from state lawmakers, suburban school districts continue to impose annual tax hikes on property owners that drastically outstrip earnings growth, writes Maria Panaritis for the Philadelphia Inquirer. A recent analysis found that over the last decade, “school property taxes in the 60-plus districts in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties have…
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Brewing Science Becoming Popular Field of Study Among Beer Lovers
The University of the Sciences in Philadelphia is offering a brewing science program that is gaining in popularity, writes Annabelle Williams for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The program, the first graduate certificate in the brewing industry offered in the Northeast when it started in 2015, came into being after its director, Matthew Farber, presented some “sound…
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Pennsylvania’s Gun Control Paradox Puts Voters, Legislature on Opposite Sides
Despite the majority of registered voters in Pennsylvania supporting some additional gun regulation, the legislature has failed to act on even the least controversial measures, write Dr. G. Terry Madonna and Dr. Michael Young for City and State Pennsylvania. This is not for a lack of options, as scores of gun control measures keep getting…
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