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Senator Amanda M. Cappelletti announces grants for Community Parks, Recreation, and Environmental Projects
Norristown, PA – October 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 − October 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 Friday Night Lights was recently banned due to an artificial intelligence...
Senator Amanda M. Cappelletti Announces Over $8 Million in PCCD Funding to Aid Children, Elders, and Other Victim Services in District Seventeen
Norristown, PA – September 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...
Introducing Author Buzz Bissinger
Introducing Miss Teen PA Lizzie Shacklett
PA Teachers Stand up to Book Bans
Pennsylvanians Fight for the Right to Read
Harrisburg, PA – September 19, 2023 – Lawmakers, Parents, Students, Teachers, Librarians, and Advocates today gathered in Harrisburg to discuss the concerning rise in censorship and book bans across the Commonwealth. Senator Amanda M. Cappelletti...
Protect the Right to Read
Protecting the Right to Read in Pennsylvania
Celiac Awareness Day 2023
Narberth Ambulance awarded $150,000 grant to purchase cardiac monitors
NARBERTH — As a result of the American Rescue Plan act that was passed by the federal level, state Senator Amanda Cappelletti (D-17th) has awarded Narberth Ambulance with a $150,000 grant to upgrade cardiac monitors in advanced life support ambulances. Paramedics use...