Online local news outlets like LebTown will be represented in testimony on Monday, Sept. 29, at a Pennsylvania House hearing called by the Local Government committee regarding HB 1291, a bill that purportedly modernizes public notices when critics say it actually would hurt taxpayers.

The hearing begins at 10 a.m. Monday in Room 205 of the Ryan Office Building in Harrisburg. It will be livestreamed by the Democratic and Republican caucuses.

Representing online local news publishers in Pennsylvania will be Tom Sofield, publisher of Levittown Now, Newtown Now, and New Hope Free Press.

As LebTown has previously reported , HB 1291 would extend the newspaper monopoly over public notices into the digital age by creating a new category of “digital newspaper” that only applies to publicat

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