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Indiana University of Pennsylvania notifies 81 faculty members of pending job losses

Indiana University of Pennsylvania on Friday notified 81 faculty members — including the entire faculties of several departments — that they will be out of work at the end of the academic year. Although IUP officials previously announced the proposed job cuts, actual notices went out Friday to those slated...
Blue dot of Joe Biden supporters stand strong in red Somerset CountyVideo

There’s a pulsing blue dot in the middle of screaming red Trump Country these days. Just southeast of the Westmoreland County line where the Laurel Highlands soar, Somerset County was the reddest of Western Pennsylvania’s rural counties that pushed then-candidate Donald Trump to a narrow win in Pennsylvania in 2016...
IUP restructuring plan to close 5 fine arts programs, reduce faculty

Indiana University of Pennsylvania will close five fine arts programs as it works to restructure in the face of a decade of declining enrollment and a projected $16 million budget shortfall, officials said Wednesday. University President Michael Driscoll, who has dubbed the effort the IUP NextGen plan, said the university...
Democrats still hold the edge, but Pennsylvania voter registration gains favor GOPVideo

Mary Ann Hegan is part of a voter migration she never anticipated. The 72-year-old retiree from Laughlintown is among more than 486,000 Pennsylvania Democrats who have switched their registration to Republican since 2008. Moving the other way, Tim Gunter, 49, of Philipsburg is among 291,324 Republicans in the state to...
Postal Service ramps up for election season, delivering 1.5M pieces of political mail daily in Western Pa.

Call it junk mail if you will, but Jeffrey Hauser takes those political ads piling up daily in your mail seriously. Less than two weeks before the Nov. 3 election, the Latrobe postmaster demonstrated just how seriously the Postal Service takes the flow of countless campaign mailers and mail-in ballots....
Record 9 million people register to vote in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has eclipsed 9 million registered voters for the first time and is expecting record turnout as voters cast ballots by mail or drop box and in person at county elections offices before the election and at the polls on Nov. 3. As of Wednesday, the state had processed 9,050,870...
Pa. election officials stress security precautions, warn against voter intimidation

Threatening emails purported to be from a far-right, neo-fascist group that targeted voters in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida and Alaska may have originated in the Baltics. While the email appeared to come from the Proud Boys, an analysis of the metadata suggested it originated in Estonia, the New York Times reported....
Route 22 battle royale: Murrysville area serves as ground zero for Biden, Trump supportersVideo

The battle for the crucial suburban vote in the Nov. 3 presidential election is playing out along an unlikely 7-mile stretch of Route 22 through Murrysville and neighboring communities through competing campaign offices and billboards. The affluent Westmoreland County community of about 20,000 grew up in the post-World War II...
VP Robert Thorn to lead Cal U as interim president

A longtime administrator at California University of Pennsylvania will serve as interim president upon the retirement of current President Geraldine Jones. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Board of Governors appointed Robert Thorn, vice president for administration and finance, to serve as head of the school effective Jan. 29,...
Pennsylvania state universities move forward with merger study, as IUP aims at its own restructuring plan

A process that could integrate or merge six struggling state-owned universities into two “academic powerhouses” has cleared its first hurdle. The Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education on Wednesday approved launching the second step in a study that could result in California, Clarion and Edinboro...
President Trump swoops into Johnstown for rally as Election Day grows closerVideo

Chants of “four more years” greeted President Trump as he emerged from Air Force One at the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport on Tuesday evening, just days after declaring himself cured of covid-19. The enthusiastic crowd, estimated at anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 strong, was still streaming into the airport...
Johnstown crowd readies for President Trump rallyVideo

Supporters began lining up at the John Murtha Johnstown Cambria County Airport 10 hours in advance of the campaign rally scheduled to being at 7 p.m. At the nearby Galleria Mall, where many shops are closed, dozens of vendors gathered in the parking lot hawking Trump regalia, ranging from T-shirts...
‘Selfless patriotism’: Late Herminie man to be honored for helping integrate Marine Corps

James Wilson never talked much about his service in World War II. “He talked about how the conditions were very difficult, but he never liked to go into the difficulties,” his daughter Tina Wilson Roberts said. “I wish I knew more. He told my brother it was very difficult, but...
Shapiro preparing for additional court battles as election nears

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said he has teams preparing for any election law challenges that may be filed between now and after polls close Nov. 3, even as he awaits court rulings on several GOP challenges. With 26 days remaining until the election and about 2.5 million mail and...
Rendell and Toomey join in congressional term limits proposalVideo

If past is prologue, a proposal from U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell seeking 34 states to force a Constitutional Convention to consider congressional term limits may be as unlikely as the partners who put out the call for it Tuesday. Just one day...
Pat Toomey’s announced exit sends Pennsylvania politicos scrambling

Monday’s confirmation by U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, that he will call it quits in 2022 and not run to become the next governor of Pennsylvania set the stage for an early scramble among candidates now that two statewide seats will be open. “All of the Republican politicos just...

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