PNS Daily Newscast - March 8, 2021
Nationwide protests in advance of trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the killing of George Floyd; judicial districts amendment faces bipartisan skepticism in PA.
2021Talks - March 5, 2021
A marathon Senate session begins to pass COVID relief; Sanders plans a $15 minimum wage amendment; and work continues to approve Biden's cabinet choices.
Public News Service - Northeast

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Environmental groups say actions in Washington and Harrisburg to curb methane emissions are major steps forward, but they see a big ...Read More

NEW YORK - A bill to update federal civil-rights laws to include comprehensive protections for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer or ...Read More

AUGUSTA, Maine -- Unions are voicing their opposition to a GOP-sponsored "Act To Ensure the Right To Work without Payment of Dues or Fees to a Labor ...Read More

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A new report highlights the advantages of kinship care for children in contact with Pennsylvania's child-welfare system, and the ...Read More

MILFORD, N.H. - New Hampshire lawmakers are proposing a new bill, the Inclusive Outdoors Act, to require conservation officers to be trained for ...Read More

HARTFORD, Conn. - Now through March 15, Connecticut residents without health insurance can sign up for a plan on Access Health Connecticut, during a ...Read More

ALBANY, N.Y. - No new patients are being admitted to Albany Medical Center's oncology unit, after dozens of patients and staff there have been ...Read More

BOSTON -- Teachers unions, along with firefighters and other labor unions, have asked the state to support a pilot program to rapidly vaccinate all ...Read More

PITTSBURGH -- "The world is watching, divest now," will be the message University of Pittsburgh students and their allies deliver to university ...Read More

HARTFORD, Conn. - A bill to allow medical aid-in-dying has just been introduced in the Connecticut Legislature.
House Bill 6425 would permit a ...Read More