Sean Kitchen is the Keystone’s political correspondent, based in Harrisburg. Sean is originally from Philadelphia and spent five years working as a writer and researcher for Pennsylvania Spotlight.
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Ahead of debate, Biden team touts Pennsylvania economic progress vs. Trump’s revenge tour
The Biden-Harris campaign is touting Pennsylvania’s economic record ahead of Thursday’s debate with former president Donald Trump.
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PA House expands access to birth control
House Bill 1140 passed by the PA House by a 133 to 69 vote on Tuesday. The bill mandates insurance coverage for all FDA birth control medication and devices.
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442,000 PA seniors to start getting their property tax and rent rebates in the mail
Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on Monday that 442,000 Pennsylvania seniors will start getting their property tax and rent rebates as part of the expanded Property Tax/Rent Rebate program.
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Jill Biden calls on women to not be “shamed back into silence” two years following Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision
First Lady Jill Biden spoke to voters in Lancaster and Pittsburgh on Sunday, stumping for President Joe Biden and warning voters about how reproductive rights are at stake in the upcoming presidential election.
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Dave McCormick’s hedge fund made bets against American steel companies
Dave McCormick blasted the sale of US Steel the day after it happened, but federal tax forms from 2021 show Bridgewater Associates shorted seven American steel manufacturers, including US Steel.
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Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act helped boost two PA Dairy farmers’ yogurt business. Now its funding is at risk.
The Inflation Reduction Act helped two Northern Pennsylvania sisters expand their dairy farm and Icelandic yogurt business through the Farm Bill. Now that funding is at risk thanks to a Republican controlled US House.
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Record number of PA seniors are applying for Shapiro’s property and rent tax credits program
More Pennsylvania seniors are signing up for their property tax and rent rebates than in past years thanks to Gov. Josh Shapiro expanding the Property Tax / Rent Rebate Program for the first time in nearly 20 years in his inaugural budget.
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Dave McCormick defends forcing his employees to sign restrictive noncompete clauses
Bridgewater Associates had one of the most extreme noncompete clauses in the country while Dave McCormick was their president and CEO. He defended the practice clauses at a York Rotary meeting in May.
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Rob Bresnahan appears to question legitimacy of Matt Cartwright’s 2022 victory
Rob Bresnahan shared misinformation about his opponent’s 2022 election victory by seemingly blaming it on a shortage of paper ballots, even though officials stated the shortage did not impact the outcome of the election.
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NAACP urges PA lawmakers to oppose new school voucher program
Pennsylvania Senate Republicans are pushing for the creation of a new school voucher program, sparking the country’s oldest civil rights organization to urge lawmakers to vote against it.
