Politics
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Bresnahan owns millions in data center investments while campaigning to regulate them
Recent reporting from CBS News places Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Luzerne) back in the hotseat after it was disclosed that the freshman lawmaker owns millions of dollars in stocks tied to the artificial intelligence and data center boom. “I’ve been crystal clear: Not one of these proposed data center projects should move forward,” Scranton Mayor Paige…
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Right-wing operative brags that this Big Tech billionaire controls Pa. Republicans
A political operative funded by Jeffrey Yass bragged about the influence the Big Tech billionaire has over the Pa. Republican Party.
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Trump tariffs hit Pennsylvania with $11 billion cost since 2025
The National Taxpayers Union Foundation’s State Tariffs Tracker found that the per-household equivalent of the additional executive tariffs on imports into the state amounts to $2,016 more for Pennsylvanians than what tariffs cost in 2024 before Trump took office.
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Ryan Mackenzie removes conservative positions from campaign website
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh) removed references to anti-abortion endorsements, support for the Second Amendment, and more from his website.
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Inside a Philadelphia barbershop, Black men debate their political past and future
The two-plus hour discussion, which included local politicians, union leaders, lifelong residents, recent arrivals and a few high schoolers, had immense political stakes.
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Democratic Sen. Fetterman speaks at a GOP midterm convention, fueling party-switch fears
Fetterman didn’t criticize anyone by name during his surprise appearance, but suggested Democrats are extremists, underscoring the message that Republicans are trying to drive home during their two-day rally in Dallas.
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Sen. John Fetterman’s isolation from Democrats grows stark in Pennsylvania
No Democrat in the state wants to be seen with him. His approval ratings are better with Republicans — far better — than they are with Democrats.
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Democrats tell Fetterman he ‘needs to quit’ following latest scandal
Sen. John Fetterman refused to go to a funeral for three slain officers and skipped meeting with disabled veterans, according to new reporting.
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We asked, you answered: How would you change Pa.’s property tax system?
We asked Keystone newsletter readers what kind of changes they would make to Pennsylvania’s property taxes, a majority of which goes toward funding public schools.
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Food banks across Pennsylvania are struggling to keep up in the face of SNAP cuts, economic pain
Despite rising food insecurity, enrollment in the program fell from 1.96 million to 1.74 million in the last year in Pennsylvania.
