• State underwrites launch of Columbia business park: A $3.3 million grant and $8 million loan will fund the conversion of the former McGinness Airport into the McGinness Business Park. (Source: LNP)
• Penn State hiking tuition 2% to 6%: Students from families making less than $75,000 a year will have the increase offset through “access grants.” (Source: WITF)
• New Pa. clean-water funding called a turning point: The $220 million Clean Streams Fund in the 2022-23 budget will accelerate cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, an Environmental Protection Agency official said. (Source: Capital-Star)
• Voting-rights lawyers criticize Pa. GOP lawsuit: State Republicans’ efforts to throw out mail balloting is a political ploy aimed at sowing doubt about election integrity, attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and Public Interest Law Center said. (Source: WHYY)
• Nation/world: Jan. 6 hearing shows Trump letting insurrection unfold unhindered. (Source: NBC News) House passes bill guaranteeing right to contraception; 197 Republicans vote ‘no.’ (Source: CBS News) Russia to sign agreement allowing Ukraine to resume grain shipments. (Source: Reuters) Ex-officer Thomas Lane sentenced to 2 1/2 years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. (Source: CBS News) Monarch butterflies declared endangered. (Source: NPR)
