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🥨 The surprising Pa. roots of Auntie Anne’s
Plus: How new funding is helping Pa. schools Share with a friend Sure, you love Auntie Anne’s butter-coated soft pretzels, a staple of mall food courts for well over 30 years. But how much do you really know about the Pennsylvania-born pretzel paradise? For instance, did you know that the business started as a humble…
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🗞️ Please, we want to hear your opinion again
What’s one thing you’d change about how you get news here? Dear reader, Thank you for being a part of the community we’re building here at The Keystone. As a reader supported news organization, you’re at the center of everything we do. Our audience grew significantly last year, and we’d like to learn more about…
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DA probes Quakertown protest arrests
Plus: Summer Lee to respond to Trump’s address Share with a friend When it comes to the greatest medical advances in history, the development of vaccines is extremely significant. It was five years ago this month that the first COVID vaccines were rolled out. Just imagine what life would be like without them. Pennsylvania actually…
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Philly’s place in Black music history
Plus: Pa. museums score big in national rankings Share with a friend Welcome to another Feelgood Friday! One thing that has always made me feel very good is music. And growing up just outside of Philadelphia, I was exposed to the city’s rich heritage of soul and R&B music from a very young age. Some…
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Pa. ranks third in nation for layoff notices
Plus: Erie remembers Rev. Jesse Jackson’s lasting impact Share with a friend Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre is a Lancaster tradition of nearly 40 years, offering Broadway-caliber productions alongside an all-you-can-eat buffet—or on Thursdays, a four-course plated meal—that changes with every show. Throughout the year, the theater presents eight major musicals and plays on its main…
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How love and marriage finally came calling for this Pa. couple
Plus: Sheetz has officially entered Wawa’s turf Share with a friend It’s almost Valentine’s Day, so we will indeed be talking about love in today’s Feelgood Friday edition of the newsletter. First, I wanted to recognize the anniversary of some medical history made right here in Pennsylvania. On Feb. 14, 1984, Dr. Thomas Starzl performed…
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This Pa. couple is paying 221% more for health insurance
Plus: 9 ‘Rocky’ landmarks to visit in Philly Share with a friend We’ve spent some time the last couple of months looking at how much monthly health insurance premiums for Pennsylvanians enrolled in the state marketplace Pennie were expected to rise without the extension of federal tax credits. With congressional negotiations over those subsidies “effectively…
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This Pa. restaurant is one of the best in the US
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…
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If you have tax questions, we’ve got answers
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…
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Pa. Olympian goes viral thanks to ‘SNL’
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…
