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Wednesday, July 8

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PA Faces Data Center Boom

C. Thompson, PennLive

Garrity Walks Data Center Tight Rope in Western PA

Engel & Fontaine, Trib-Review

In the Lehigh Valley, the Power Bill Is on the Ballot

Oliver Bateman, RealClearPA

PA Voting Laws Could Change if Dems Win 2026 Elections

Carter Walker, Spotlight

Data Centers Emerge as a Flashpoint in Gov's Race

Chloe Jad, Post-Gazette

Turnpike Approves 3.5% Toll Hike for January, Lowest Since '14

Ed Blazina, P-G

Why Can’t Lehigh Valley Towns Just Say No to Data Centers?

L. Schroeder, MCall

Property Values in Kensington Went Up This Year

Orso et al., Inquirer

Rite Aid Is Gone. Its Shells Remain

Erin McCarthy, Inquirer

The Jewish Legacy in Northeastern Pennsylvania

Jake Wynn, RealClearPennsylvania

Research

Working Class Voters' Role in the 2024 PA Election

Clark, P. F. , Sagepub

PA Voters Bridge Divide in Polling® Event

Deliberative Democracy Lab, Stanford

New UCLA Data: Latino Voters in PA Could Sway Election

Phan et al., UCLA

PA Ed. Funding Reached $22,000 Per Student

E. Aymond, Commonwealth Foundation

Videos

RNC Chair Talks Midterms During Philly Visit

Be Skeptical of Any Deal With Iran, Sen. McCormick Says

Voters Voice Concerns Before the PA Primary

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he wants to see more funding for public transportation

USA Energy Affordability Map

Click on a state to learn more energy facts.

Essential Reading

May Aliens Be Deported Based on Their Speech?

The answer, oddly, isn't settled.

The COVID-era Smearing—and Resurrection—of Trump NIH Appointee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Bhattacharya’s path from health policy scholar to NIH director nominee is pockmarked with craters from missiles launched to destroy his scientific credibility by NIH leaders and their minions in academia.

Essential Reading

The Ladies, and How We Remember Them

Abigail Adams admonished her husband to “remember the ladies.”

Teaching the Declaration Starts at the Archives

Every generation inherits the Declaration of Independence and its promises.

In the News

Liberty & Order

Caesar, Cato, or Cincinnatus?
Michael Auslin, Jack Miller Center

The Living Declaration

Multimedia

The Greatest WWII Novel

America at 250: A Conversation with Peggy Noonan

Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin

Podcasts

More Criminals Using Teens to Move Guns

Claudia Dimuro, PennLive

The Future of America's Shipbuilding Is in Philadelphia

Michael Graham, DV Journal

Who’s Winning in Pennsylvania?

John Prideaux, The Economist

Shapiro: Here’s Why Harris Is On Track to Win

Greg Sargent, The New Republic

PA Faces Data Center Boom

C. Thompson, PennLive

Garrity Walks Data Center Tight Rope in Western PA

Engel & Fontaine, Trib-Review

Stacy Garrity is toeing the political line on data centers. At a campaign stop in a cramped Cranberry office building Tuesday, the Republican... Read More

In the Lehigh Valley, the Power Bill Is on the Ballot

Oliver Bateman, RealClearPA

The largest structure proposed in Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district is a building that will, once completed, contain almost no... Read More

PA Voting Laws Could Change if Dems Win 2026 Elections

Carter Walker, Spotlight

If Democrats win the PA legislature and Josh Shapiro stays governor in the 2026 midterms, the trifecta could pass new election laws. Read More

Data Centers Emerge as a Flashpoint in Gov's Race

Chloe Jad, Post-Gazette

State Treasurer Stacy Garrity, the Republican nominee for governor, sat in the Butler County GOP headquarters in Cranberry on Tuesday,... Read More

Turnpike Approves 3.5% Toll Hike for January, Lowest Since '14

Ed Blazina, P-G

The Pennsylvania Turnpike’s annual toll increase will drop slightly to 3.5% in January, the lowest increase since 2014. The state Turnpike... Read More

Why Can’t Lehigh Valley Towns Just Say No to Data Centers?

L. Schroeder, MCall

Town leaders don’t have the power to ban a data center project just because residents don’t like it. Here’s why. Read More

Property Values in Kensington Went Up This Year

Orso et al., Inquirer

Citywide, there was a 3% median jump in valuations over the last two years. Increases were much larger in working-class neighborhoods that... Read More

Rite Aid Is Gone. Its Shells Remain

Erin McCarthy, Inquirer

Nearly a year since the last Rite Aids closed, some shuttered pharmacies are getting new life from South Jersey to Delaware County. Read More

The Jewish Legacy in Northeastern Pennsylvania

Jake Wynn, RealClearPennsylvania

The Jewish communities of Northeastern Pennsylvania had come, like so many others to the Coal Region, in waves. They arrived from the German... Read More