‘Our North Star is always Northeastern Pennsylvania’: A Q&A with U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan
‘Our North Star is always Northeastern Pennsylvania’: A Q&A with U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan
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News & Politics
‘The devil is everywhere’: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson stumps for U.S. Rep. Scott Perry as PA-10 battle intensifies
Johnson cast the midterms as “a contrast between common sense and crazy,” while Perry characterized the 2026 election as “a battle for the soul of our nation.”
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Campaigns & Elections
Q&A with Bob Harvie
The PA-1 Democratic congressional candidate talks healthcare, affordability and government accountability
Campaigns & Elections
Commonwealth officials and immigration advocates buckling in for whatever Election Day throws their way
At a nonpartisan online forum sponsored by Keep Our Republic, a national democracy organization, current and former officials shared their concerns, strategies and expectations around an increasingly complex and fraught voting landscape.
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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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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.
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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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