At a series of well-attended Senior Summit roundtables throughout Delaware County, state Rep. Bryan Lentz is hearing from seniors about a wide variety of concerns, including the high cost of property taxes and violence against the elderly.
“I know in my district in Delaware County, I think they pay the highest property taxes in the whole state,” Lentz said.
As this autumn marks the 10th school year since the Columbine High School Massacre in Littleton, Colo., state Rep. Bryan Lentz, D-161 of Swarthmore, introduced legislation Monday to develop an anonymous telephone hotline to help prevent potential violence in schools.
Under Lentz's legislation, the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Office for Safe Schools will have the power and duty to develop the hotlines that ensure the anonymity of callers.
Allowing dogs to live in wire cages the size of a refrigerator for their entire lives, withholding food and drink from them for hours, not permitting veterinary care, allowing them to bake in searing heat or shiver in subfreezing temperatures or shooting them to death is legal in Pennsylvania.
State Rep. Bryan Lentz, D-161, of Swarthmore, is hoping to change that.
State Rep. Bryan Lentz is one of only six area legislators to receive a perfect 100-percent rating from Philadelphia-based nonprofit PennEnvironment for his work to win passage of major alternative energy subsidies and other legislation sent to the governor during this two-year session.
