A bill had also been introduced in the PA senate (SB 815) to stop this practice. The Republican controlled PA Senate refused to bring it to the floor for a vote after it cleared the health and human services committee. Now it will have to be reintroduced and go through committee again. But since the Senate is still R controlled they probably won't bring it for a vote again.

Nah, McDonald's was a cheap place for people without a lot of money to get something to eat. Now there's pretty much nothing like that left downtown.

They're putting a bank in.

I’m not familiar with any towns within the city limits

That is probably what happened.

And we're talking about the people who are still alive and out of a job.

New Hope is a nice place for a day visit. It's a short walk across the bridge from Lambertville NJ and I believe there's public transit there.

Left Reading in 2009, didn't hire a single new person since the early 90s, only temps when they needed it. Please tell me more about Ludens though! Almost my entire family worked there, thus I need a proper education from Reddit on the plant

Look behind every industrial catastrophe and you will find that government Regulations were weakened or eliminated a few years previously.

It’s as certain as the sun rising in the East.

Wall Street: Regulations kill jobs Real Life: Deregulation kills people

The Women's Law Project is asking you to make a telephone call to help move legislation to ban this practice out of the House Health Committee.

Kiddie City is a blast from the past. I remember going over the Burlington-Bristol, wondering what the weird "Airplane Man" store sold and getting hype to see that rainbow colored building.

People DIED. What the fuck, man? We have plenty to complain about.

Yeah that's definitely the fault of the union

>"R.M. Palmer has been a presence in the community for decades now," West Reading Borough Council Vice President Phil Wert said Saturday, donating candy to Easter egg hunts and giving back to the community. He said it's the first responders' and elected officials' responsibility "to give back to them because they've given to us."

I gotta say that making sure that first responders understand their responsibility to the factory owners is a Fucking. Bold. Take. Doubly so if it's true as-reported that employees told supervisors that they smelled gas and were told to get back to work about it.

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My bad, shield your eyes!

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Seriously, Hershey has to be slated for something crazy later this year…. We need a trifecta.

I grew up there too, from the early 1970s through the early 2000s north of Fogelsville and I agree with you. Fascinating area with a lot of great industrial history.

However, I'd urge OP to go see the region before developers finish covering it all over with warehousing with the full approval of economic development guys and naive township supervisors who can't figure out when enough is enough.

I appreciate the dark sense of humor…. Others may not. Maybe wait a week.

I believe it was part of a fundraiser for the fire department that remains on scene searching for bodies. They only found the last missing person last night.

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Well, the steam engine pictured is not really part of the Electric City Trolley Museum. The locomotive is part of Steamtown.

Here's a photo of some trains at the Trolley Museum.

But 7 new job openings...

"We put it on the clipboard of things that need to be budgeted for fixing"