PCN: Pennsylvania's Neighborhood.
SAVE THE DATE: Monday, September 30th
Watch your favorite state legislators play softball for a good cause.
New from PLS and PCN: Summer Session
Find out what your legislators were up to this summer.
High School Football Game of the Week
Click for a complete schedule of teams and times.
It’s Energy Month on PCN
Learn more about natural gas, from the wellhead to the marketplace.
Wednesdays at 7pm: PA Gadflies
This week we profile Bruce Ledewitz, Professor at Duquesne University School of Law. Watch past episodes online.
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Upcoming Programming
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Wednesday at 9:00 am: Biologic Medical Products (Biosimilars)
(VIDEO) A hearing with the PA House Health Committee.
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Wednesday at 9:00 pm: Parents as Education Advocates
Join a panel of experts on Focus on Education to find out how to be the best advocate for your child before and during their school years.
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Sunday at 8:00 pm, Discover PA Business: Knouse Foods
Knouse Foods is a grower-owned cooperative, providing a variety of fruit products packaged under familiar names such as “Musselmans” and “Lucky Leaf.” In this episode, PCN tours two facets of operations at Knouse foods- the manufacturing of pie filling and apple sauce. We also speak with Ken Guise, President and CEO of Knouse Foods, about the unique benefits of operating as a cooperative company.
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September 8, PCN Profiles Andy Carter
(VIDEO) Andy Carter is the president & CEO of the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP).
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September 8: PCN Tours Range Resources
Range Resources invited PCN Tours out to see their operations in Canonsburg, PA. On this tour, learn about everything from the well bore to the shale well to water impoundments, and more. Come along for a very comprehensive look at Range Resources operations in Pennsylvania.
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September 8: “Connie Mack: The Trubulent & Triumphant Years”
(VIDEO) The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants through 1914 under the leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. But beginning in 1915, where volume 2 in Norman L. Macht’s biography picks up the story, Mack’s teams fell from pennant winners to last place and, in an unprecedented reversal of fortunes, stayed there for seven years. World War I robbed baseball of young players, and Mack’s rebuilding efforts using green youngsters of limited ability made his teams the objects of public ridicule.
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September 5: Pennsylvania’s First Ladies
(VIDEO) They say behind every great man, there is a great woman. This summer, PCN sat down with former and current First Ladies of Pennsylvania to discuss their experiences living in the Governor’s Residence, advocating for their state-wide initiatives and serving beside their husbands. Hear from Ginny Thornburgh, Ellen Casey, Michele Ridge, Kathy Schweiker, Judge Marjorie Rendell, and Susan Corbett.
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September 1: PCN Profiles Ellery Schempp
(VIDEO) PCN profiles Ellery Schempp–the plaintiff of a U.S. Supreme Court case that declared public school-sanctioned Bible readings to be unconstitutional.
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August 27: Financing Higher Education & Student Loan Debt
(VIDEO) The price of a college education has never been higher, and Pennsylvania’s college students have never been borrowing so much to pay for it. On this special one-hour roundtable, PCN examines the current climate of college financing and student loan debt in PA.
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August 26: PA Press Club with Dick Yuengling, Jr.
(VIDEO) D. G. Yuengling & Son is the oldest operating brewing company in the U.S.
Dick Yuengling, Jr. took over as the 5th-generation company president in 1985.
Featured Sports
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PCN Game of the Week 2013 Schedule
PCN’s 2013 Game of the Week Schedule will run from August 30th to November 1st.
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PIAA Softball: Canon-McMillan escapes with thrilling 12-inning win over Neshaminy
Canon-McMillian’s Linda Rush hit a home run to put the finishing touches on a 4-3, 12-inning victory over Neshaminy at Penn State’s Nittany Lion Softball Park at Beard Field.
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PIAA Baseball: West York repeats as champion in Class AAA
West York High School captured its second consecutive PIAA class AAA championship Friday.
West York (21-8) is the first repeat champion in baseball since Moon in 2001-02. - More from Featured Sports
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7:00 pm Shale Gas Innovation Contest -
10:10 pm Power Plant Pollution with PennEnvironment -
10:30 pm Election 2014: John Hanger Gubernatorial Campaign Endorsement -
10:55 pm PA Ethics Law with the PA House State Government Committee -
1:40 am West Shore Chamber of Commerce Economic Forecast
