{"id":163143,"date":"2026-04-11T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163143\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:42:07","slug":"pennsylvanias-democrats-are-passing-legislation-that-benefits-people-letter-letters-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163143\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania\u2019s Democrats are passing legislation that benefits people [letter] | Letters To The Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania House recently passed legislation to do the following: 1) Regulate data centers; 2) codify marriage equality; and 3) raise the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>Every Lancaster County Republican representative voted no. Think about that. It seems to me that the Republicans\u2019 primary legislative position on these issues, as well as on the full, court-ordered funding of public education, is no.<\/p>\n<p>We need representatives in Lancaster County who know how to say yes to things that benefit working people.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Hassler<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster<\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania House recently passed legislation to do the following: 1) Regulate data centers; 2) codify marriage equality;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3069,2258,37933,28,30,29,4516],"class_list":{"0":"post-163143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-data-center","9":"tag-democrats","10":"tag-minimum-wage","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news","14":"tag-state-legislature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}