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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic reports

How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest-paid roles at those companies? The Trump administration is making it harder for the public to know, moving to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. The EEOC’s Republican majority voted ...

Morrisons Cove Rotary Club marks century of service

Rotary club members in the Morrisons Cove area are marking a century of community service and involvement. The Morrisons Cove Rotary Club will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a banquet July 31 at the Morrisons Cove Memorial Park in Martinsburg. The club was originally known as the ...

Future of skill games still unclear

Lawmakers have less than three months to take some sort of action concerning the estimated 70,000 “skill games” in the state before a stayed Supreme Court decision stirs up a potential political hornet’s nest. The Legislature and Gov. Josh Shapiro enacted a new state budget on July 12 without including a deal concerning the games, which are unregulated, untaxed, and — under the court decision issued a few weeks earlier — illegal. State leaders have struggled for years to come up with a solution to the multi-sided issue presented by the games, but until the June 15 court ruling ...

Penn State tuition set to increase in 2027-28

The Penn State Board of Trustees has approved tuition increases and millions of dollars in spending cuts for the 2027-28 fiscal year as the university grapples with surging payroll expenses and lost tuition revenue due to declining enrollment. The changes are part of the $11.1 billion ...

Rainy day play

Wyatt Nelson (left) and Miles Kennard, both 3 and of Hollidaysburg, learn about trains as they play in the Children’s Room at the Hollidaysburg Area Public Library on Tuesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski