01.24.13 |
The Postal regulatory commission approved the rate increase in November, which raises the price of a first-class domestic stamp to 46 cents, that's one cent more. The price of a postcard will increase from 32 cents to 33 cents, while a new global ...
01.24.13 |
Last night was the most bitter night of the year so far. Temperatures dropped another ten degrees in some parts of the listening area. Erin Cornell, the Communications Director for the Red Cross in southwestern New York, checked in with our ...
01.24.13 |
It's looking more and more like New York may pass a minimum wage hike. Governor Cuomo proposed raising the minimum wage from 7-25 an hour to 8-75 an hour during his State of the State address, and now it looks like a compromise is brewing in the ...
01.24.13 |
The National Rifle Association is joining the growing list of vendors who are pulling out of the eastern sports and outdoors show in Harrisburg next month. In a statement on its website, the NRA says it tried unsuccessfully to have Reed ...
01.23.13 |
A legal challenge to the Pennsylvania law mandating photo identification for voters is tentatively scheduled for trial this summer. A state judge says the trial will begin July 15 in Harrisburg. The judge says he'll decide by March 21 whether to ...
01.23.13 |
This week, people in Pennysylvania will no longer be able to throw away their electronic devices with their trash. The Pennsylvania Covered Device Recycling Act (CDRA) requires that you not dispose computers, laptops, computer monitors, televisions ...
01.23.13 |
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is going to announce plans this morning for more cash to help disabled people across the state of Pennsylvania live independantly. In his budget in February, he's plannin to request 20 million dollars more to pay ...
01.23.13 |
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has released a 137 billion dollar state budget. With no new taxes, it includes a federal aid package for Superstorm Sandy victims, 35 million to implement the new gun control law, a 3 percent increase in school aid, ...
01.22.13 |
More police officers are taking aim at the strict new gun control measures in New York. Steuben County Sheriff David Cole says there's no way his deputies can enforce the law. The Deputies Association of Steuben County says the S.A.F.E. Act goes ...
01.22.13 |
The Dream Act is a bill that provides financial aid to college-bound illegal immigrants, and it's already been written up for the Empire state. Here, it's called the "Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act", and it's being pushed ...
