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PA Lawmakers Push New Housing Bills Amid Shortage
Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA
PA Man Arrested After Threats Against Catholic Parish
Staff, The Catholic Herald
Lawmakers Optimistic About Passing Budget on Time
Tom Fontaine, Tribune-Review
Penn President to Leave Next Year
Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed
Police Fine Nearly 700 for Holding Phone While Driving
Ed Blazina, Post-Gazette
PA Meatpacking Plant Closing, 1,500 Could Lose Jobs
Bill Shannon, WTAJ
Dissecting John Fetterman and Graham Platner's Beef
Joel D. Smith, WHP
Pa.’s Data Center Growth Increases Natural Gas Demand
Joseph DiStefano, Inquirer
Garrity Right to Deny $1 Million Upgrades to Shapiro's Home
G. McGoldrick, Inquirer
Lehigh Co. to Unveil ICE ‘Non-Cooperation’ Policy
L. Schroeder, The Morning Call
Shapiro’s Utility Crackdown Won’t Fix Power Shortage
R. Marchand, Broad + Liberty

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

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PA Lawmakers Push New Housing Bills Amid Shortage

Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA

Multiple bills under consideration in the Pennsylvania House and Senate would reduce some local control over housing regulations. Read More

PA Man Arrested After Threats Against Catholic Parish

Staff, The Catholic Herald

Police intercepted Cristopher Henderson while he was driving towards St Pius X Parish after parishioners reported threatening posts Read More

Lawmakers Optimistic About Passing Budget on Time

Tom Fontaine, Tribune-Review

Legislative leaders in Harrisburg say they don’t expect a repeat of last year’s tortured budget process, when an impasse dragged on for... Read More

Penn President to Leave Next Year

Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed

After stepping in as an interim leader during an institutional crisis in 2023, University of Pennsylvania president Larry Jameson announced... Read More

Police Fine Nearly 700 for Holding Phone While Driving

Ed Blazina, Post-Gazette

It didn’t take Pennsylvania State Police very long to show they will put a priority on enforcing Paul Miller’s Law, the law that... Read More

PA Meatpacking Plant Closing, 1,500 Could Lose Jobs

Bill Shannon, WTAJ

JBS Beef Plant in Souderton, Montgomery County, filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) with the state of Pennsylvania,... Read More

Dissecting John Fetterman and Graham Platner's Beef

Joel D. Smith, WHP

In this week’s edition of Face the State, host Joel D. Smith asks our insiders about two Democrats who have gotten into it lately. Read More

Pa.’s Data Center Growth Increases Natural Gas Demand

Joseph DiStefano, Inquirer

WhiteHawk Minerals CEO Daniel Herz says data centers are a "phenomenal opportunity for the state of Pennsylvania, if handled properly." Read More

Garrity Right to Deny $1 Million Upgrades to Shapiro's Home

G. McGoldrick, Inquirer

Pennsylvania will still pay the outstanding bills totaling more than $1 million on security upgrades to Shapiro's personal home, and a... Read More

Lehigh Co. to Unveil ICE ‘Non-Cooperation’ Policy

L. Schroeder, The Morning Call

Lehigh County employees could face serious consequences if they don’t comply, including termination, according to the resolution. Read More

Shapiro’s Utility Crackdown Won’t Fix Power Shortage

R. Marchand, Broad + Liberty

Electricity bills keep going up, and Pennsylvania consumers are feeling the pain. For example, in Pittsburgh last year, many residents saw... Read More

Research

Working Class Voters' Role in the 2024 PA Election

Clark, P. F. , Sagepub

On election day 2024, the headline for CBS News was “Pennsylvania is the top prize among battleground states.” Political experts... Read More

PA Voters Bridge Divide in Polling® Event

Deliberative Democracy Lab, Stanford

America in One Room: Pennsylvania brings together a representative sample of registered Pennsylvania voters for a statewide Deliberative Poll... Read More

New UCLA Data: Latino Voters in PA Could Sway Election

Phan et al., UCLA

The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA LPPI) released a new data brief on Latino eligible voters in Pennsylvania, marking the... Read More

PA Ed. Funding Reached $22,000 Per Student

E. Aymond, Commonwealth Foundation

Harrisburg, Pa., May 21, 2024 — Pennsylvania per-student spending increased to $21,985 in the 2022–23 school year, according to... Read More

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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.

> 50% 40-55% 30-40% 20-30% 10-20% AK HI AZ UT CO NE OK MS AL GA NC VA NJ RI DE MD CT MA VT ME NY IA ND WI OH KY IL TN SC IN PA NH WV MI MN OR WA CA NV MT WY NM TX FL LA AR SD MO KS ID

Censorship

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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.

In the News

Multimedia

Zuckerberg Ending Censorship on Facebook: "The Fact-Checkers Have Just Been Too Politically Biased"
John Kerry Tells WEF: Our First Amendment Stands As A Major Block Against Hammering Disinformation Out of Existence
House Committee Rips State Department Over Censorship

American Civics

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Essential Reading

Teaching the Declaration Starts at the Archives
Every generation inherits the Declaration of Independence and its promises.
Jefferson and the Declaration
Anytime I teach the Declaration of Independence, I find that the most important question to cover is one that is not actually mentioned in the document itself: slavery.

In the News

Multimedia

America at 250: A Conversation with Peggy Noonan
Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin
The Long Road to Juneteenth

Podcasts

More Criminals Using Teens to Move Guns

Claudia Dimuro, PennLive

The Future of America's Shipbuilding Is in Philadelphia

Michael Graham, DV Journal

With the issues of trade and energy policy front and center in American politics, Jeff Vogel joins the Delaware Valley Journal podcast to... Read More

Who’s Winning in Pennsylvania?

John Prideaux, The Economist

Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week our hosts travel to the state most likely to decide the election Read More

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

Greg Sargent, The New Republic

As polls show a tight race in Pennsylvania, which Trump cannot lose, Governor Josh Shapiro explains why he thinks Kamala Harris is on her way... Read More


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