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Make the Most of Aaron Rodgers' Last Run in PGH June 20, 2025
Earlier this month, Aaron Rodgers finally signed with the Steelers, ending an exhausting offseason saga that directly impacted their draft. The 41-year-old quarterback’s arrival marks the beginn...
Sounding the Alarm for Pennsylvania’s Rural Hospitals June 20, 2025
Pennsylvania’s rural hospitals are struggling. Declining patient volumes, workforce shortages, and chronic underpayment have left many on a lifeline. About half are operating at a loss, accordin...
Where Is Gov. Shapiro’s Leadership on the State Budget? June 20, 2025
Gov. Josh Shapiro once said, “Leaders have a responsibility to speak truth.” Yet, truth be told, the governor’s lack of leadership on this year’s state budget is concernin...
U.S. Steel Ceases Trading On NYSE With Takeover June 20, 2025
U.S. Steel will be delisted from the NYSE after its acquisition by Nippon, contradicting President Donald Trump's claims that the deal is a "partnership."...
PA Has Never Had It This Good With Energy Prices June 19, 2025
“You guys don’t know how good you have it.” That is typically not a winning message for politicians heading into an election year. Yet when it comes to energy prices, Pennsylva...
Cyber Students: Undeserving Targets of Teachers' Unions June 19, 2025
With all that’s wrong in public education today, what if I told you some good news? There are more than 69,000 students in Pennsylvania who have found a K-12 school that works for them – a...
Montco Prohibits Employees From Cooperating With ICE, June 19, 2025
The policy includes protocol for how county employees should interact with federal immigration agents....
Bipartisan Bill Would Move DOE Office to PA June 18, 2025
Budget Talks in Pennsylvania Are at Crunch Time June 17, 2025
When the U.S. Army Occupied PA’s Coal Region June 17, 2025
In October 1862, Irish mineworkers in the rural coal mining villages of western Schuylkill County rose up in armed opposition to Pennsylvania’s first attempt to create a drafted militia to add s...
Latino Pragmatist Runs for Mayor of Lebanon June 17, 2025
César B. Liriano embodies the striving, entrepreneurial spirit of generations of immigrants. Like many Hispanics, he came from the Dominican Republic by way of New York City and found rural Leb...
Turn Down the Temperature--Before It’s Too Late June 17, 2025
This past weekend in Doylestown, protestors gathered for a “No Kings” rally, holding signs that compared federal immigration officers to Nazis – one reading, “Nazis used trains...
J.J. Spaun Weathers Wet Oakmont to Win U.S. Open June 16, 2025
Needing two putts from 65 feet for the win, Spaun made the longest putt all week at Oakmont to win by two shots over Robert MacIntyre. He was the only player under par....
What's Ahead in Pennsylvania's State Budget Fight June 13, 2025
Pennsylvania's budget process is a byzantine effort that is critical to the functioning of the Commonwealth but largely ignored by the public. The news that does slip out ranges from depressing t...
Welcome to Oakmont, Where I-76 Somehow Blends In June 13, 2025
Are PA Partisans Flipping Sides on Fetterman? June 12, 2025
Are the party positions on always-newsy senior U.S. Sen. John Fetterman flipping here in Pennsylvania? Fetterman continues to dominate the state’s “political attention” economy, as h...
Can Amazon Survive Pennsylvania’s Red Tape? June 12, 2025
Pennsylvania just caught the attention of the world’s most powerful company. Amazon recently announced it will invest at least $20 billion to build multiple high-tech cloud comput...
Energy Regulations Threaten PA’s Tech Boom June 12, 2025
Pennsylvania is on the short list of destinations for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI). However, the commonwealth – thanks to ill-advised policies pushed by Gov. Josh S...
Amazon to Spend $20B on Data Centers June 10, 2025
DNC Considers New Vice Chair Election After Audio Leak June 10, 2025
On Sunday, Politico published a clip from a May 15 DNC discussion about vice chair David Hogg’s role in a PAC that might fund primary challengers....
McClinton Joins Q&A with PA Voters June 09, 2025
The questions pertained to actual proposals before the state legislature on issues like voting rights and reintegration for people formerly incarcerated....
Fettermania Is Running Wild in Pennsylvania June 09, 2025
Last week, John Fetterman’s chief of staff Krysta Sinclair Juris walked out the door, becoming the latest in a string of staff departures that would sink most politicians. The hulking Pennsylvania senator’s mental health struggles have been laid bare...
Nippon Steel and US Steel Embrace--Again June 05, 2025
Share prices of US Steel surged on the news that Japan’s Nippon Steel will at last acquire the company. Well, share values should rise. Without a deal, US Steel was staring bankruptcy on the fac...
