Keystone News of the Day

Plus: Pa. farm bankruptcies up 160% Share with a friend As I’ve said multiple times in the newsletter, the thing I love most about my job is that I am constantly learning new things about Pennsylvania, and its history, each day. My latest lesson comes courtesy of this story from our Kalena Thomhave about Philadelphia’s…

Plus: Erie’s Benedictine Sisters honored for fighting voter fraud claims Share with a friend It’s about this time of year I usually start thinking about what noted Philadelphian Benjamin Franklin once said: “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Tax prep. Ugh. To paraphrase Shakespeare, “To file jointly…

Plus: How to get the 2026 senior tax deduction Share with a friend By the time this lands in your inbox, York County’s Summer Britcher will have made her first 2026 Winter Games run down the icy luge track at the Cortina Sliding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. But don’t worry, you can watch it…

Plus: The 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony is tonight Share with a friend Welcome to another Feelgood Friday edition of The Keystone newsletter.  Though the Super Bowl is coming up Sunday, we’re going to kick off today’s newsletter talking about another type of game: video games. The video game world of today—with custom gaming chairs,…

Plus: Why passport services are ending at some Pa. libraries Share with a friend Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. And if the special someone in your life is more into horror movies and frightfests than candy and flowers, we’ve got a couple of ideas. For those hopeless romantic ghouls in the Philadelphia area,…

Plus: ICE buys a Berks County warehouse Share with a friend Just shy of three months after Pennsylvania’s 2025-26 budget was signed into law, Gov. Josh Shapiro unveiled his 2026-27 budget proposal in Harrisburg on Tuesday—a $53.26 billion spending plan that includes a $100 million transfer for a new fund designed to handle disruptions from…

Plus: A community snow removal effort in NEPA Share with a friend Sometime between the first cup of coffee and the moment my wife heads off to work each morning, we discuss dinner—what we feel like eating, what we have on hand, what we need to get from the store, that sort of thing. When…

Plus: Key Pa. stops on the Underground Railroad Share with a friend Based on the snow, ice, and sub-zero wind chills we’ve been dealing with across Pennsylvania recently, and Washington Post meteorologist Ben Noll saying last week that “the eastern United States is forecast to be the coldest place, relative to average, on the planet…

Plus: Two Philly films added to National Film Registry Share with a friend Far too often, it seems, I’ve found myself opening the Feelgood Friday newsletter by saying something to the effect of ‘If ever there was a week when we could use some good news, this is one of them.’ Sadly, the sentiment holds…

Plus: More snow ahead? Share with a friend What I learned this weekend: The dog my wife and I adopted in the spring (the one I solicited your help in naming), who had arrived in the area from South Carolina only months before, does not like the snow (unlike our other dog, who loves sprinting through…