A volunteer dressed in a carrot costume? Find him posing for pictures outside New Love Center’s new mobile unit, which brings fresh food to rural communities in Pennsylvania, thanks to a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture.

New Love Center, a nonprofit in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, [pop. 4,166 in north-central PA] that focuses on food disparities, received $117,500 as part of a grant to expand rural health services in the Commonwealth. It was among five organizations in the state to receive funding in recent months from the Emergency Rural Health Care Grant Program, with grants available through the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan Act.

“Our clientele increased greatly over the pandemic — anywhere from 25-40%,” said Alice Fox Cline, acting director of operations and board vice president for New Love Center. “Our ongoing needs for food have not changed, they’ve only increased. We consider ourselves very blessed that we’ve got this funding and can continue to provide what we see as basic necessities.”

The money has come in partial payments and in the form of reimbursement grants to offset the group’s expenditures, said Dave Winkleman, New Love Center’s board president. The organization’s mobile unit can help catch Jersey Shore residents from falling through the cracks due to lack of transportation or disability, and supplements numerous programs at New Love that target food insecurity.

HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in the state. It’s a historic opportunity and a serious challenge, according to a new plan from the state Broadband Development Authority that outlines how it will accomplish that goal over the next five years.

The money comes from the wide-ranging bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2021. Pennsylvania will also receive an estimated $900 million for broadband from other federal programs and private investment required as a condition of grant funding.

Here are five obstacles Pennsylvania will have to navigate as it spends the money, according to the authority’s plan:

We waited all season for that? Truly, hats off to Kim Cattrall, who I’m sure got paid a literal fortune to sit in a car and pretend to talk to her archnemesis on the phone for 60 seconds. If the cameo had been kept under wraps, it would have been a fun little surprise to begin the episode. But with everyone anticipating the return of Samantha Jones with bated breath, the phone call was underwhelming (even with the Annabelle Bronstein reference).

This season’s penultimate episode and finale were labeled part one and part two, which makes sense because this installment actually felt like a continuation of various arcs (mostly), whereas the rest of this round of And Just Like That… dropped developments from week to week.

Take, for example, my guy Steve (David Eigenberg). One of the most impactful scenes of the season was his blowout with Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) in episode six, in which they aired years of frustrations and grievances—and then the show basically never dealt with the fallout. How did Miranda feel about it? How did Steve feel? How did it impact Brady? We’ll never know! I would have loved an old school Sex And The City brunch scene where they all dissected the fight.

Last week, Miranda found out from Carrie that Steve was opening a new restaurant on Coney Island, and she began to grapple with how abruptly she leaves relationships. In the finale, she actually visits Steve on Coney Island and they have a heart-to-heart about wanting to be in each other’s futures, even as they let go of their partnership. I mean…yeah? You have a son together? You were definitely going to have to see each other. This isn’t a revelation.

When I first reviewed Philadelphia’s new stand-alone public restroom — the Philly Phlush — I made it my sworn duty to return in six weeks, and again in six months, to provide status updates on the pilot potty project.

I heard from many who poo-pooed the bathrooms and were certain they wouldn’t make it 24 hours in this city and others, like me, who wanted to be optimistic about something Philly needs so much.

On Monday, six weeks after my initial review, I visited the Phlushes currently in operation — one at 15th and Arch Streets in Center City and another at Fotterall Square Park in North Philly. I used both without fear, trepidation, or a hazmat suit. I’m happy to report that things have not gone down the toilet.

Far from being city dumps, the bathrooms remain clean and everything appears to be on a roll. Both were functioning and those I spoke to were grateful for their presence.

BRUSSELS, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work, to comply with landmark European Union online content rules, the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit said on Thursday.

Known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), the new rules are more onerous for Meta Platforms (META.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O), Twitter, booking.com (BKNG.O), Pinterest (PINS.N), Snap Inc's (SNAP.N) Snapchat, Wikipedia, Zalando (ZALG.DE) and Alibaba's (9988.HK) AliExpress because of their large number of users.

The DSA will go into effect on Friday and requires companies to do more to tackle child sexual abuse material and disinformation, be more transparent on their algorithmic processes, bots and targeted advertisements and to remove illegal, unsafe or counterfeit products sold on their platforms.

"We will be expanding the Ads Transparency Center, a global searchable repository of advertisers across all our platforms, to meet specific DSA provisions and providing additional information on targeting for ads served in the European Union," Google's vice president for trust and safety, Laurie Richardson, said in a blogpost.

yesterday, several delightfully-satisfying pieces fell into place, as many of the people responsible for the 2020 post-election trumpfuckery finally started learning what consequences look like.

you’ll recall how the Arrogant Dipshit Brothers, Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark, tried to pull their “yeah sorry, we’re just not into being arrested” act. Fani “Yours In Service” Willis was having none of it. she wrote,

Defendant Jeffrey Bossert Clark has moved this Court for an Emergency Motion to Stay the pending State court criminal proceedings against him based on an apparent misread of the applicable statutes, a misapprehension of the binding caselaw, and a fundamental misunderstanding of criminal procedure—both state and federal.

misreading and misunderstanding the law — that sounds about right for the oil spill lawyer whom Trump wanted to make his Attorney General.

Mark Meadows, you had one fucking job: get your stupid co-conspirator ass down to Georgia by the 25th of August and surrender yourself to the authorities.

but Mark Meadows is an entitled male dipshit and so he thinks that being booked in some dingy Atlanta jailhouse is beneath him.

Mark believes what so many entitled dipshit criminals believe: my crimes aren’t really crimes, and therefore, Fani Willis has no business prosecuting me for them. check and mate!

Meadows wants his case moved to federal court where he thinks his my crimes aren’t really crimes strategy will have a better chance of success (spoiler alert: nah, bro), and so he wants Willis to give him a free pass on Friday’s booking deadline.

Gov. Josh Shapiro has batted back questions about his national political aspirations in his first eight months on the job, saying he’s focused on being governor. But he’s also leaning into the kind of brand-burnishing opportunities that a future presidential candidate might seize. Next month Shapiro will headline a convention of New Hampshire Democrats, his first trip as governor to the early voting state known to court potential presidential nominees.

New Hampshire’s Democratic Party described the Sept. 30 gathering at Bedford High School as “a premier Democratic political event in the country,” in a release announcing Shapiro’s appearance. “Every national Democratic leader in the last 50 years has spoken at a NHDP convention, attracting sitting presidents, vice presidents, potential presidential candidates, every chairman of the Democratic National Committee and other notable national leaders.”

Shapiro will talk about his campaign and beating state Sen. Doug Mastriano ahead of New Hampshire’s own battle for an open gubernatorial seat next year. The New Hampshire governor’s race is widely viewed to be one of the most competitive in the nation.

“In Pennsylvania, we defeated extremism and showed the rest of the country what it looks like to come together behind a vision for a better future — one where we create real opportunity while defending our rights and advancing real freedom for all.” Shapiro said in a release. “New Hampshire voters face a similar choice next November. ... I’m grateful for the opportunity to speak to Granite Staters at this critical time for both New Hampshire and our nation’s future.”