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Campaigns & Elections

By a wide margin: The biggest ballot blowouts in PA guv races

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s victory over Stacy Garrity, as dominant as it was, doesn’t even make the Top 3 gubernatorial blowouts in state history

Campaigns & Elections

Bucks and blue: Bob Harvie beats Brian Fitzpatrick to flip PA-1 blue

The tilt between GOP incumbent U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and Democratic challenger Bob Harvie was the most closely watched congressional race in the most closely watched state in this midterm cycle.

News & Politics

Stelson beats Perry, flipping PA-10 seat blue

Democratic congressional candidate Janelle Stelson defeated U.S. Rep. Scott Perry in a rematch of their 2024 matchup.

Campaigns & Elections

Brooks bests Mackenzie to flip PA-7 back to Democrats

In a decisive victory over first-term Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, Democrat and firefighters’ union chief Bob Brooks won a hotly contested Lehigh Valley race, notching Democrats a critical House seat on a very good night for the party

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Capitol Beat

Gov. Josh Shapiro signs bell-to-bell school cell phone ban into law

The new law requires schools to develop policies that prohibit cell phone use during the school day.

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Prison Society celebrates return and expansion of prison bus program

State lawmakers approved $600,000 for the program, which makes family visits at remote state prisons possible

Capitol Beat

7 bills signed into law by Gov. Josh Shapiro in October

City & State takes a look at 7 new statutes in the commonwealth after Gov. Josh Shapiro signed 58 bills into law.

Philadelphia

Philadelphia City Council turns to transit access and affordability in the city

Councilmember O’Rourke reintroduced his Transit Access Fund bill during session Thursday

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Satire/Odd News

Choose your own campaign ad-venture

Do-it-yourself developments for PA’s election races

Winners & Losers

This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

Who’s up and who’s down this week?

Satire/Odd News

Think the midterms are scary? Try these Pennsylvania haunted haunts

City & State takes a look at some of the Keystone State’s creepiest sites.

Winners & Losers

This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

Who’s up and who’s down this week?

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Honors

The CSPA 2026 Fifty Over 50

Meet the veteran entrepreneurs, educators and advocates whose decades of effort have kept the commonwealth humming.

Trailblazers

The City & State Trailblazers in Healthcare 2026

Meet the physicians, advocates and visionaries keeping Pennsylvania, and its mighty healthcare sector, healthy.

Who's Who

The City & State Who's Who in Labor 2026

Meet the organizers, educators and advocates powering Pennsylvania’s workforce.

Honors

The City & State PA 2026 40 in Their 40s

Meet the PA millennials making an impact

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Politics

Data centers can power up employment in PA – if done right

The head of Union Energy PA makes the case for how responsibly planning for and executing data center construction can boost wages, the economy and more.

Policy

Opinion: Now is the time for the General Assembly to act on skill games

Clearfield County District Attorney Ryan P. Sayers says lawmakers should let Pennsylvanians know whether they plan to pass skill games legislation as the October enforcement deadline nears.

Politics

Philadelphia’s neighborhood schools make – or break – their communities

Three Philadelphia public school alumni explain why the School District of Philadelphia needs to rip up its plans to rip out the heart of 17 city neighborhoods.

Policy

Congress needs to stamp out the intoxicating hemp products loophole

The executive director of the PA Chiefs of Police Association explains how the 2018 Farm Bill’s inadvertent green light to allow the manufacturing and sale of products offering marijuana-like effects has led to a host of unintended consequences that need to be remedied through legislation.

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