• Prison advisory committee members signed nondisclosure agreements: Transparency advocates say the committee’s private meetings may violate Pennsylvania’s Sunshine Law. Lancaster County says the committee, which is helping to design the county’s new correctional facility, is an administrative work group and thus exempt. (Source: LNP)
• Lancaster Air Show features rides in WWII planes: The Commemorative Air Force Capital Wing will take customers up in a 1942 Boeing PT-17 training biplane or a TBM Avenger. The air show runs Sept. 6-8. (Source: ABC 27)
• Belmont Shoppes Starbucks workers vote to unionize: They voted to join Workers United, an affiliate of Service Employees International Union. (Source: WITF | LNP)
• Volume rises, prices stay high in local homebuyer market: The median home sale price in July was $343,750, just shy of June’s record of $347,950. Closings rose 13%. (Source: LNP)
• Sen. Casey speaks at Democratic National Convention: In a brief speech Thursday, the incumbent senator, who is running for re-election against Republican Dave McCormick, condemned “greedflation,” his term for inflation driven by price-gouging. (Source: Capital-Star)
• Nation/world: Harris acceptance speech caps Democratic National Convention. (Source: USA Today) Gas prices fall. (Source: NPR) Transgender woman to compete in Paralympics. (Source: ABC News) Supreme Court allows partial enforcement of Arizona proof-of-citizenship voting law. (Source: NBC News) RFK Jr. withdraws from Arizona ballot ahead of Trump rally. (Source: Newsweek) Canadian rail workers will return to their jobs. (Source: AP)
