The statewide service has additionally gathered several video primers on the role and procedure of the state legislature designed to provide youth with ground-floor knowledge of how a bill becomes law. In addition to sharing ideas and opinions with state residents, the postings may serve as an important reference tool for other students who are researching these same subjects. The site provides contact information for obtaining videotapes, as well as noting the availability of lesson plans for several of PCN's in-depth series. Providing state citizens with another opportunity to converse with members of the commonwealth's legislative and executive branches, the Pennsylvania Cable Network now produces a live Monday evening call-in show when the General Assembly is in session. Since Senate and House session days traditionally fall early in the week, Monday's show centers on issues being discussed and decided in the State Capitol Building.
Phone lines are open throughout the hour-long program.
Connecting citizens with their state government is an integral part of our network's mission. Instead, the phrase was first applied to German-speaking Deutschlanders who arrived from Europe in the late eighteenth century and settled in Southeastern Pennsylvania counties. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the English referred to all people of germanic heritage as Dutch regardless of whether they came from the Netherlands or Germany. Moreover, most German immigrants sailed to America from Dutch ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, which may have lead to the confusion. Recognizing the commonwealth's large German-speaking population, PCN carries a live overnight feed of Deutsche Welle programming .