Pennsylvania
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Wawa Moves Across the Street From Sheetz as Expansion Heats Up
Wawa has effectively moved into Sheetz’s house with preliminary plans for a Wawa store in Benner Township, Centre County, across the street from an existing Sheetz store, writes Matt DiSanto for the Centre Daily Times. Wawa’s push to Centre County in central Pennsylvania would be its most western outpost in the state. A store near…
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WilmU’s FinTech Certificates Explore the Future of Finance
Financial technology, or “FinTech,” is changing the way that banking does business. The rise of encrypted transactions, mobile payment apps, digital lending, blockchain networks, and other advances has automated and improved the delivery of financial services for businesses and consumers. It has also created an entirely new career path. Wilmington University offers two FinTech-focused certificate…
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Looking for Quick Action on State School Funding Reforms
Delaware County state legislators and education advocates are promising to press for quick action to bring fairness to the state’s school funding system on the heels of a Commonwealth Court ruling last week declaring Pennsylvania’s system unconstitutional, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. The ruling followed a lawsuit filed by William Penn School…
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WilmU Alumna Performed Super Bowl Coin Toss as One of Pat Tillman Scholars Honorary Team Captains
Wilmington University alumna Fabersha Flynt was on the 50-yard line and performed the coin toss for Super Bowl LVII as one of four Pat Tillman Scholars honorary team captains. The Tillman Scholarship honors Cpl. Patrick Daniel Tillman, Jr., a record-setting safety for the Arizona Cardinals who turned down a three-year, multi-million-dollar deal with the Cardinals…
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Once a Pennsylvania Pest, Spotted Lanternflies Now Populating Canada
Canada is sounding the alarm on spotted lanternflies, an invasive species that is a threat to many native tree species, according to a staff report from The Sudbury Star. Spotted lanternflies “threatens many of our native tree species, including maples, poplars, pines, and cherries. Grape vines are also susceptible to this pest,” said Ontario Parks,…
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Former CEO Shares Thoughts on How Gov. Shapiro Can Boost PA’s Innovation Economy
Jeff Marrazzo, the former CEO of Philadelphia-based Spark Therapeutics and a member of the innovation subcommittee of Gov. Josh Shapiro’s transition team, has several ideas on how Pennsylvania’s new governor can support the state’s innovation economy, particularly companies in biotechnology and life sciences, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The first step is to…
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College Enrollment Increases Looking Promising After Pandemic
There are promising signs that a college enrollment rise is happening, particularly for freshmen, writes Susan Snyder for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying isolation put a chill on college attendance but these post-pandemic times are seeing signs of a college enrollment rise on campus. The number of freshmen grew by 4.3…
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Pennsylvanians Routinely Fail to Claim Millions in Lottery Prizes
Pennsylvania residents fail to claim an average of $17 million in lottery prize money each year, according to a staff report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Last year the tally was relatively low, with $8.2 million uncollected in prizes. In 2021, however, Pennsylvanians left $20.5 million on the table. From 2012-2021, the unclaimed annual average was…
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Judge Rules PA’s School Funding System Is Unconstitutional
In a landmark school funding case that involved the William Penn School District in Delaware County, Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubilerer ruled today that petitioners demonstrated “manifest deficiencies” between low- and high-wealth districts, declaring Pennsylvania’s school funding system unconstitutional. Judge Jubilerer presided over a three-month trial that ended a year ago in a lawsuit…
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Mobile IDs Could Be Coming to Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanians could soon get the option to use mobile IDs on their phones, writes Henry Savage for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Pennsylvania State Representative Dan Miller is planning on re-introducing legislation that would allow residents to download a digitized version of their state driver’s license using a phone app. Miller introduced this bill previously but it…
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For Republicans, Figuring Out Suburbs Key to Winning Elections
Pennsylvania is rated among the swing states by pundits, with Philadelphia and Pittsburgh standing as Democratic strongholds while rural Pennsylvania is almost exclusively Republican, writes Guy Ciarrocchi for Real Clear Pennsylvania. As a result, the critical battle is being waged in Philadelphia’s suburbs, which constitute around 22 percent of the Keystone State’s registered voters and…
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‘Smile,’ Workers With Bad Teeth Can Now Work at Sheetz
Wawa rival Sheetz is abandoning a “smile” policy that kept workers from being hired who had “obvious missing, broken, or badly discolored teeth,” writes Lizzy McLellan Ravitch for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The policy also required existing employees with visible dental problems to have them resolved within 90 days. The shift came after receiving employee feedback.…
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Scrapple’s Popularity Extends Beyond the Delaware Valley
Residents of the Baltimore area, much like those in the Philadelphia region, share a love for scrapple, writes Kit Waskom Pollard for The Baltimore Sun. The food’s American roots can be traced to the 17th Century when it was made by German immigrants living in Pennsylvania. “When ancestors from the Rhineland came to America, they…
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Alex Trebek Moderated 2018 Debate in Pennsylvania’s Battle for Governor
Alex Trebek – the longtime host of Jeopardy! – will moderate one of the debates in Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race, writes Emily Heil for The Washington Post. Trebek will pose questions to candidates at the forum sponsored by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry on Oct. 1. The choice of moderator is unusual as Trebek’s…
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Gov. Shapiro Signs Executive Order, Creating New State Office to Spur Economic Growth and Foster Innovation
Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed an executive order establishing the Pennsylvania Office of Transformation and Opportunity within the Governor’s Office and the Economic Development Strategy Group. This newly created office will be a one-stop-shop for businesses looking to grow and will work to aggressively reignite Pennsylvania’s economy — fostering innovation, supporting transformational economic development, and…
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City Dwellers Try Remote Work in Rural Pennsylvania
A new initiative is attempting to capitalize on the massive shift to remote work that took place during the pandemic and help solve the issue of sustained population decline in rural Pennsylvania, writes Samantha Spengler for the Philadelphia Magazine. The Wilds Are Working program offers city dwellers in the Keystone State who are currently working…
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‘Opportunity Abounds for Pennsylvania Workers’: State’s Unemployment Rate Decreases, Setting New Record Low
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) has released its preliminary employment situation report for December 2022. The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania was down one-tenth of a percentage point over the month to 3.9 percent in December, setting a new record low. The U.S. unemployment rate was also down one-tenth of a point over…
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Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Lots of Pennsylvanians
Pennsylvania keeps adding millionaires and climbing up the list of states with the most million-dollar earners, write Ty West and Michael Potter for the Philadelphia Business Journal. According to new data from the Internal Revenue Service, in 2020, there were 18,720 tax returns filed in the Keystone State that had adjusted gross income exceeding $1…
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