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Toll roads have existed in one form or another for the past 4,000 years, in order to help facilitate the movement of goods and people. The 1937 opening of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, a toll facility, had the private sector play a significant role in financing the construction. Around the same time, the Pennsylvania Turnpike was in its early design stages. The high risk and uncertainty of such a large project gave pause to many post-Depression Era bankers, who feared their investments would not bear fruit.
Toll roads have existed in one form or another for the past 4,000 years, in order to help facilitate the movement of goods and people. The 1937 opening of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, a toll facility, had the private sector play a significant role in financing the construction. Around the same time, the Pennsylvania Turnpike was in its early design stages. The high risk and uncertainty of such a large project gave pause to many post-Depression Era bankers, who feared their investments would not bear fruit.
DuBois, PA – U.S. Representative Glenn ‘GT' Thompson today announced the winner of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition: Isabella Kern, a senior at Richland High School.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Congressional Republicans are proposing solutions to climate change. Their ambitious platform suggests natural changes addressing food, farming, and forestry, while protecting the economy.
"We know the climate changes," said Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.), the top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee. "That debate is over."
Now that he's the top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee, U.S. Rep. Glenn "G.T." Thompson is continuing to work on getting whole milk back into schools.
"I think most folks in Washington, including (Ag Secretary) Tom Vilsack, know my goal of restoring whole milk in our school districts," Thompson said during an April 6 meeting with 97 Milk, a whole milk advocacy group, at the Durlach-Mt. Airy Fire Co.
CLARION - U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson regards President Joe Biden's $2 trillion federal infrastructure and jobs package as "toxic."
Thompson, R-15th District, said the proposal, which the president unveiled last week during a stop in Pittsburgh, is "nothing but higher taxes," contains "a lot of the Green New Deal" and it is "climate change on steroids."
CLARION — Pennsylvania U.S. Representative Glenn "GT" Thompson hosted a public hearing in Clarion Thursday to examine the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's new Major Bridge Public-Private Partnership (P3) Initiative with local lawmakers and witnesses representing vast groups of the public who could be impacted.
Clarion, PA – This week, U.S. Representative Glenn "GT" Thompson announced that the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)approved a$1.5 million grant to Indiana County, for the County Broadband Deployment Initiative. The project will deploy over 100 miles of fiber optic cable and establish 8 wireless telecom sites, providing high-speed broadband access to approximately 825 households and 75 businesses.
Clarion, PA—Today, U.S. Representative Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-15) hosted a field hearing of a working group of Congressional and Pennsylvania State Legislators, entitled Local Voices: Examining PennDOT's P3 Major Bridge Tolling Proposals at the Clarion County Administrative Building.
The purpose of the hearing was to examine the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's Major Bridge Tolling Proposal and receive testimony from PennDOT's Secretary Yassmin Gramian.
In a recent episode of the popular YouTube show Louder With Crowder, host Steven Crowder dedicates a segment of his show to discussing the $5 billion allocated for black farmers in the American Rescue Act. Though in a self-proclaimed comedy show, the segment wasn't funny; it was insensitive, ignorant, and in poor taste.
The segment begins with a news story describing the discrimination faced by farmers of color through government agricultural programs. Overheard in the background, one of Crowder's co-hosts can be heard asking, "Do they got receipts on that?"