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Senate Democratic Leader Jay Costa, State Government Committee Chair Amanda M. Cappelletti Call for Continued Negotiation on Primary Election Day to Accommodate Observers of Passover
Harrisburg, PA - Octubre 26, 2023 – Today, State Senator Jay Costa joins calls from Jewish constituents in his district and across the commonwealth to adjust the date of Pennsylvania’s 2024 primary election to respect Passover. If the primary date remains Abril 23,...
Pa. Senate passes ‘explicit content’ legislation after heated debate over whether it’s a book ban
The Pennsylvania Senate on Martes voted to advance legislation that purports to give parents more insight and control over what their children are reading in school. But opponents vigorously argued the measures are a de facto book ban, and a redundant effort to...
Domestic Violence Awareness Vigil
Recognizing Period Action Day 2023
Mes de sensibilización sobre la pérdida de embarazos e hijos
Book bans have no place in a free society | Editorial
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel about a firefighter who burns down houses that own books. The 1953 novel, which some have tried to ban over the years, is set in an unnamed city in the distant future. In many ways, that disturbing future doesn’t feel...
La senadora Amanda M. Cappelletti anuncia subvenciones para parques comunitarios, actividades recreativas y proyectos medioambientales
Norristown, PA – Octubre 6, 2023 – Senator Amanda M. Cappelletti (D-Montgomery/Delaware) announced two grants today awarded to environmental projects in District Seventeen and the surrounding region. Both grants will be administered by the Department of Conservation...
Senate, House Dems Discuss Troubling Increase in Book Bans at Capitol Hearing
HARRISBURG, PA − Octubre 6, 2023 – State Senator Katie Muth (D-Chester/Montgomery/Berks), chair of the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Policy Committee, and state Rep. Ryan Bizarro (D-Erie), chair of the House Majority Policy Committee, joined Senator Amanda...
‘This is about censorship’: Lawmakers, experts debate the impact and consequences of book bans
Banned Book Week is an annual, week-long event to recognize intellectual freedom and draw attention to the harm — both historical and contemporary — of censorship. This year, with book bans on the rise nationally, Democratic state lawmakers from both chambers gathered...
Why Are We Not Standing Up for Books?
When state Sen. Amanda Cappelletti was growing up in Boyertown, PA, she had an elementary school librarian whose name she can only vaguely recall — “something like Mrs. LaBan, I think,” she says — but whose “fun voices she’d make during storytime” Cappelletti has...
Recognizing Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Banned Books Week
Stop PA Book Bans
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Recognizing Climate Week
Senior Fair in the Seventeenth 2023
POWER Public Hearing Testimony
Parents, Students and Lawmakers Rally Against Book Bans in Harrisburg
State lawmakers returned from their summer break this week and Democrats hosted a press conference speaking out against book banning. One of the speakers included Buzz Bissinger, whose book Viernes Night Lights was recently banned due to an artificial intelligence...
La Senadora Amanda M. Cappelletti anuncia una financiación de más de 8 millones de dólares del PCCD para ayudar a niños, ancianos y otros servicios a las víctimas en el Distrito Diecisiete
Norristown, PA – Septiembre 20, 2023 – Senator Amanda M. Cappelletti (D-17 Montgomery/Delaware) announced $8,318,888 in grant funding from the Pennsylvanian Commission on Crime & Delinquency (PCCD) awarded today to benefit District Seventeen. The commission...