Another 112 acres of Berks County farmland will be preserved through the purchase of conservation easements, valued at $279,750, approved by the Pennsylvania Agricultural Land Preservation Board. The farm, on Palm Road in Lower Heidelberg Township, is owned by the Wolfskill family. “Our farmlands play a crucial role in the vitality of our state and [...]
Continue Reading →Starting today, the public may now access birth and death records online and in person for free at the Pennsylvania State Archives thanks to a new law, according to state Sen. Judy Schwank. “This is good news for families who are seeking information about their loved ones and for researchers who are looking to learn [...]
Continue Reading →Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 contains cuts and has no increase over the current $27.1 billion spending plan. You wouldn’t know that if you listened to or read his speech. Not once did the Republican governor mention the bottom line. The numbers he did mention didn’t tell us [...]
Continue Reading →State Sen. Judy Schwank today said that, for a second straight year, the governor’s Pennsylvania budget proposal calls for short-sighted cuts and no long-term solution for moving Pennsylvania forward. “Once again, we have been offered a budget proposal that focuses more on short-sighted cuts than long-term strategic investment,” Schwank said of the $27.14 billion 2012-13 [...]
Continue Reading →The policies reflected in Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 won’t resolve issues impacting families, senior citizens, students and others, according to the Senate’s Democratic caucus. And Corbett failed to produce a jobs plan or a workable transportation initiative, Senate Democrats charged in their budget response prepared by Sen. [...]
Continue Reading →Harrisburg and Steelton-Highspire are among the 18 school districts that would receive additional money to apply toward academic programs that have been shown to help raise student achievement under a bill that Rep. Eugene DePasquale, D-York, is sponsoring. At a Capitol news conference with Pennsylvania State Education Association President Mike Crossey at his side, DePasquale [...]
Continue Reading →[The legislator responded to a bctv.org survey asking about her service in 2011.] State Sen. Judy Schwank’s responses: Biggest accomplishment I consider my biggest accomplishments of the past year being elected to serve the citizens of the 11th District, reconnecting with my constituents, and providing them with the conscientious representation and constituent services they deserve. [...]
Continue Reading →State House and Senate district lines might not change for another year, economic troubles in Europe could have local effects and a tough budget season lies ahead. Those are some of the items discussed by legislators at Thursday’s Berks Agriculture Resource Network meeting at the Berks County Agriculture Center in Bern Township. About 35 BARN [...]
Continue Reading →A $5 million state loan has been approved for the Greater Berks Development Fund for planned projects in Reading. The projects include a planned four-star hotel downtown, according to state Sen. Judy Schwank, a Ruscombmanor Township Democrat, and state Rep. Thomas R. Caltagirone, a Reading Democrat, both of whom announced the loan Wednesday. The hotel [...]
Continue Reading →The state has awarded a $5 million loan toward the construction of a long-planned four-star hotel in downtown Reading. “It’s a big step forward,” said Albert Boscov, the retailing magnate who runs the nonprofit development organization Our City Reading and has spearheaded many projects in Reading. >>Read more…
Continue Reading →Latest News
- Schwank: 112 Acres of Farmland Preserved in Berks County
- Schwank: Access to Birth, Death Records Now Available
- Schwank: Budget Proposal Again Calls for Short-Sighted Cuts
