Politician
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‘Thoughts and prayers are not enough.’ Advocates praise Shapiro’s plan to tackle gun violence
Gun safety advocates and family members who lost loved ones due to gun violence joined Lt. Gov. Austin Davis at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg on Tuesday to highlight the proposed Office of Gun Violence Prevention from Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget.
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PA Sec. of State: Threats are chasing off experienced local election officials
Election officials leaving in the wake of the 2020 presidential election has Pennsylvania’s top elections official worried.
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Biden blasts Trump’s support of a nationwide abortion ban
President Joe Biden took Trump to task for his support of a nationwide abortion ban and his role in repealing Roe v. Wade, criticizing him for “taking away women’s freedom,” putting women’s lives in danger, and unleashing “cruelty and chaos all across America.”
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Opinion: A Call for Bipartisan Action to Support Pennsylvanians with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s commitment to allocate $216 million, which leverages an additional $266 million in federal funds, to bolster home and community-based services marks a historic moment in Pennsylvania’s dedication to this vulnerable population.
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Which Pennsylvania state university is cheapest? We ranked them all by cost
According to US News and World Report, the average cost of in-state tuition for a public university is $10,662. Most of Pennsylvania’s state universities cost more than that.
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Democrats retain majority in the Pennsylvania House with a 102-100 partisan divide
Democrats retained their slim majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday after voters elected a former school board member to represent them in a Philadelphia suburb that has been trending more to the left.
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Republicans want to use a 150-year-old law to ban abortion nationwide
Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration, calls for the Justice Department to start enforcing the Comstock Act of 1873. The old law bans the mailing of “anything designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion,” which could include medical instruments.
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Shapiro and lawmakers celebrate historic funding for public defenders
Gov. Josh Shapiro along with Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and Democratic leaders gathered in the Governor’s Reception Room at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg on Monday to celebrate historic funding for indigent defense services.
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PA Republicans shrug off Shapiro’s call for marijuana legalization
A two-thirds majority of Pennsylvania voters support the legalization of adult-use cannabis according to a recent poll conducted by Franklin and Marshall college.
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VIDEO: School funding advocates celebrate first anniversary of Commonwealth Court ruling
Wednesday marked one year since the Commonwealth Court released a 786-page decision declaring that Pennsylvania has been failing to meet its constitutional obligation to fund public education in the commonwealth, and education advocates praised Gov. Josh Shapiro’s new budget, which proposes a $1.1 billion increase to public education. Deborah Gordon Klehr, the Executive Director of…
