radioNOVO News for NWPA 06-24-26

Good morning.Pennsylvania healthcare advocates are warning that hundreds of thousands of local children could soon lose their medical insurance. A new report highlights severe upcoming federal cuts to Medicaid, which state officials predict could strip coverage from over three-hundred thousand adults and an untold number of minors. While the state’s C-H-I-P program is preparing to absorb the influx, lawmakers are being urged to dramatically increase funding to educate families on annual renewal rules.In Harrisburg, the state House narrowly passed a major overhaul of Pennsylvania's school choice tax credit program in a strict one-hundred-and-five to ninety-seven vote. The Democratic-backed bill would consolidate existing scholarship programs into a single fund aimed strictly at lower-income families while introducing strict new academic transparency requirements.And summer music returns to Meadville tomorrow night. The seventeenth annual Concerts in the Park series officially kicks off at seven o'clock in Diamond Park with rock performances from Logan Battin and Dirty Leaf.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News.