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Laughlin pledges schools support State Senate to reconvene on Monday By Ed Palattella ed.palattella@ timesnews.com
Dan Laughlin is ready to return to Harrisburg to press for more funding for the Erie School District. The Republican state senator from Millcreek Township, who was instrumental in getting the district $14 in additional state funding in 2017-18, said he is committed to trying to make that infusion recurrent. The $14 million in permanent funding for the Erie School District was excluded from a state budget revenue package that narrowly passed the Republicancontrolled state House on Wednesday night. The state Senate will take up the House proposal on Monday. “When I get there on Monday, I will work on making that recurrent again,” Laughlin said. Laughlin also said he
Tyshun Taylor, at center, is an ex-convict who has been hired as a client advocate with Unified Erie funding through the YMCA of Greater Erie. Part of Taylor’s responsibilities are to help other ex-convicts like (background, from left) Vernon Overton, 55; Josh McCloud, 29; and Arielle Davis, 21; get and keep jobs. [CHRISTOPHER MILLETTE/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]
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Local man offers help to other ex-offenders By Madeleine O’Neill madeleine.o’neill@ timesnews.com
He spent more than a decade in prison. He struggled to find employment and housing
after his release. But now, Tyshun Taylor has found his dream job: lending a hand to other exoffenders as they go through the same transition.
The 43-year-old Erie native is working as a client advocate, a position created with grant funds provided to the Unified Erie anti-violence initiative in July 2016. He knows how difficult the transition back into the
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community can be for his clients. “When I came home it was such a complete struggle,” he said. “That’s one thing I knew, that I had to take this
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Equifax breach leads to class-action lawsuit out of Erie madeleine.o’neill@ timesnews.com
Equifax’s nationwide data breach has led to a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Erie.
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A national law firm on Wednesday sued the creditreporting agency in U.S. District Court in Erie on behalf of two Pennsylvanians, including an Erie man, Leslie Whipper. Equifax, an Atlanta-based
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