Politics

Opinion

Opinion: PA gets closer to sounding death knell for death penalty

A growing consensus among state politicians seems to signal a paradigm shift on capital punishment.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Philly landlords should embrace new legislation, not fight it

The Safe Healthy Homes Act should be championed by lessors as well as lessees.

News & Politics

Personality

U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick talks term limits, tariffs and Trump

Pennsylvania’s junior senator spoke with City & State about his first months in Washington, his top policy priorities and President Donald Trump’s second term.

Personality

Personality

Remembering those who served

A Memorial Day salute to those who gave their all for Pennsylvania – and the nation – in war and peace.

Politics

Opinion

Opinion: All of us pay the price for underfunding public defense

For the people who need it but can’t get it, overburdened public defenders and the taxpayers funding unnecessary detentions, change is needed now.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: First responders are sounding the alarm on opioids

The executive director of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association makes the case for taking the next step to save lives.

Politics

Politics

Thousands rally across PA as part of nationwide protest against Trump's agenda

At the event, dubbed ‘Hands Off,’ local leaders and advocates spoke out against an ‘assault on our freedoms and our communities.’

Politics

Politics

Democrats pick up state Senate seat as they win 2 special elections in PA

Pennsylvania Democrats flipped a state Senate seat and retained their state House majority.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Exit interview: Jacqueline Romero

Philadelphia’s top federal prosecutor left this week amid a Trump-administration sweep of the Biden-era judiciary

U.S. Congress

Politics

The Pennsylvania congressional delegation’s committee assignments

City & State has a full rundown of all the committees that Pennsylvania’s members of Congress are serving on.

Politics

Updated Politics

Decision 2024: Pennsylvania’s 2024 U.S. Senate race

Incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and Republican nominee Dave McCormick face off in November for a pivotal U.S. Senate seat.

Politics

Opinion

Opinion: Haitian Americans must battle xenophobia to win freedom and political power

In the wake of the continued demonization of immigrant communities, a Haitian-born nonprofit leader advocates for a way forward.

Politics

Politics

‘We won’t be displaced’: Thousands march through Center City Philadelphia protesting proposed Sixers arena

Increased traffic and Chinatown’s survival were among the concerns driving people to protest in a downpour.

Health Care

Opinion

Opinion: Congressional priorities need to include Pharmacy Benefit Manager reform

A state senator lays out the case for reining in the outsized power that pharmacy benefit managers have over prescription drug prices for Americans.

Politics

Opinion

Opinion: The Biden intervention

City & State’s founder imagines a scenario where the president gets told the truth about the election and what he needs to do to save the country.

Campaigns & Elections

Politics

U.S. Senate candidates’ use of negative ads becomes flashpoint after Trump assassination attempt

Dave McCormick made a pitch online Monday to suspend negative campaigning despite continuing to run such ads.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Let’s clear the air on politics and Parkinson’s

Take it from one who knows first-hand: Being diagnosed with the disease and being fully committed to a career – even at the presidential level – are not mutually exclusive.

Politics

Politics

Sage advice: PA’s senior politicos dish on what their successors should – and shouldn’t do

Words of wisdom from both parties for the next generation of policymakers and public officials.

Campaigns & Elections

Politics

County commissioners working to apply lessons from primary to general election

The race is on to make the state’s 2024 election results as safe and secure as the 2020 one – without the attendant controversy