Josh Shapiro

Voters were supposed to be able to vote on an amendment this month, but a blunder by the Department of State kept it off the ballot.

The proposed amendment likely won’t finally pass until 2023.

As the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Legislature works to pass voter suppression laws, Democrats in Congress have one chance to stop the assault on voting rights.

State officials anticipate 2020 opioid overdose death totals will exceed those of each of the past three years, including 2017, a year many consider the height of the opioid crisis.

Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar will leave her post after an error will delay a proposed Pennsylvania state constitutional amendment for two years.

Gov. Tom Wolf called Perry’s involvement a “disgrace.”

In separate ceremonies at sites around Harrisburg, the attorney general, auditor general and treasurer took their oaths of office on Tuesday.

The Capitol will be closed for two days during the inauguration.

Gov. Tom Wolf, and Pennsylvania’s elected leadership, had strong reactions to the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol in Washington DC during an attempted coup Wednesday.

“We are the state that returned the dignity and honor to the United States of America,” said the president of Pennsylvania’s Electoral College.