On this month’s edition of Focus on Aging Adults, our guests will cover what Medicare recipients need to know if they want to make changes to their plan, and how to enroll if you are now eligible for Medicare.
Archives for October 2017
PA Books: Therese Rocco: Pittsburgh’s First Female Assistant Police Chief
Therese Rocco is known to her colleagues as “The Rock.” At the age of nineteen, she began her career in law enforcement as a clerk in a small, all-female missing persons unit of the Pittsburgh Police Department. Her career ended nearly fifty years later as an honored and acclaimed Assistant Police Chief—the first woman in […]
Watch on demand with PCN Select
The 2017 History of Northeastern Pennsylvania Conference will air on PCN and PCN Select* this Tuesday, October 10, beginning at 9 am. The annual conference, sponsored by Luzerne County Community College and the Luzerne County Historical Society, will focus on African American History. PCN Select members will be able to view the conference on demand by Friday, October […]
PA Books: “Gettysburg Rebels”
“Gettysburg Rebels” is the gripping true story of five young men who grew up in Gettysburg, moved south to Virginia in the 1850s, joined the Confederate army – and returned “home” as foreign invaders for the great battle in July 1863. Drawing on rarely-seen documents and family histories, as well as military service records and […]
Journalists Roundtable: October 5, 2017
After a week of proposals and counter-proposals to find a revenue plan that can gain the support of 102 House members, the House is still wrangling over which taxes and fund transfers it can pass to support the spending plan enacted on June 30. The governor held a press conference Wednesday expressing frustration with the stalemate and outlining a plan to securitize the state’s liquor revenue to tide the state over economically until the budget process is finished. Also coming to a head this week was a scandal involving pro-life Congressman Tim Murphy (R-18), who said he is not running for re-election in 2018 after asking the woman he had an affair with to have an abortion. To discuss this and other news are guests: Jan Murphy, Education and State Government Reporter with the Harrisburg Patriot-News & PennLive; Katie Meyer, Capitol Bureau Chief with WITF-FM; and Brad Bumsted, Harrisburg Bureau Chief with The Caucus, a publication of LNP. Our host this week is Larry Kaspar.
Tamaqua Borough
Located in the Southern Coal region of the Appalachian mountains, Tamaqua, a former coal mining town is now supported by many cultural and civic improvements.