{"id":282934,"date":"2026-09-10T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282934\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:44:12","slug":"berks-lawmaker-calls-for-renaming-lake-erie-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282934\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks lawmaker calls for renaming Lake Erie | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; A state lawmaker from Berks County wants to change the name of &#8220;Lake Erie&#8221; to &#8220;Lake Pennsylvania.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David Maloney says he&#8217;s preparing a resolution.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll urge the President, Congress, and the Secretary of the interior to take the steps to rename the lake.<\/p>\n<p>He says the state does a lot to maintain the lake&#8217;s great fishing scene, and a lot of out-of-state visitors come to Pennsylvania to enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; A state lawmaker from Berks County wants to change the name of &#8220;Lake Erie&#8221; to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[349,75697,136,138,137,260,117934,66869],"class_list":["post-282934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-berks-county","tag-david-maloney","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie","tag-lake-pennsylvania","tag-secretary-of-the-interior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282934","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=282934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}