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City & State's 5 for 2025: For PA immigrants, uncertainty, fear and resilience are the order of the day
As the year comes to an end, we look back at some staff and reader favorites from our reporting over the past 12 months.
Education
Policy
City & State's 5 for 2025: As AI enters Pennsylvania classrooms, teachers and students face a learning curve
As the year comes to an end, we look back at some staff and reader favorites from our reporting over the past 12 months.
Healthcare
Policy
Proposed reproductive rights legislation would tackle decades-old state mandates
Lawmakers and advocates are debating which of the commonwealth’s web of abortion requirements are hindrances – or safeguards.
Trailblazers
Power Lists
The 2025 CSPA Infrastructure honorees
Meet the Pennsylvanians creating and fortifying the state’s built environment, from skyscrapers to sustainable water.
Education
Policy
Trump administration efforts to end DOE get failing grade from PA educators
Teachers say commonwealth classrooms will suffer if the Trump administration guts the federal Department of Education, which funds numerous key programs as well as student loans, while conservatives say the move will return resources to the states
Technology
Policy
As AI enters Pennsylvania classrooms, teachers and students face a learning curve
Pennsylvania schools are racing to determine the role artificial intelligence should play in education – and when.
Honors
Power Lists
The City & State 2025 Impact honorees
From healthcare to construction, these are the Pennsylvanians making an outsized impact in both their professions and their communities.
News & Politics
Politics
PA GOP lawmakers weigh in on Trump accusing veteran pols of ‘seditious behavior’
The president's claim that a video posted by Democratic lawmakers who served in the military was “punishable by death” drew both condemnation and defense.
News & Politics
Politics
The Democratic Women’s Caucus calls for emergency SNAP funding
Houlahan said 2 million Pennsylvanians, most of them women and girls, could become food insecure if funding is allowed to lapse
News & Politics
Politics
‘We’re very concerned’: Q&A with Pennie Executive Director Devon Trolley
On the eve of open enrollment, the state’s health insurance marketplace chief told City & State how her team is preparing for the termination of federal subsidies – and what’s at stake for consumers and the state economy.
Interviews & Profiles
Policy
Ask The Experts: Philadelphia’s imperiled research ecosystem
Amid federal defunding of scientific research and radical shifts in vaccine and health policy, City & State surveyed Philadelphia’s top vaccine experts to discuss what’s at stake.
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Honors
Power Lists
The 2025 Fifty Over 50
Meet the state’s senior leaders who are cementing their legacies in politics, policy and beyond.
Technology
Policy
At heated City Council hearing, Philly tech officials “failed” their first AI test
At a contentious hearing on artificial intelligence in government, lawmakers and community advocates expressed grave concerns about the city’s preparedness for the AI era
Education
Policy
Citing out-of-control expenses and expenditures, school districts and state Democrats push for new cyber charter funding formula
Both sides of the statewide debate agree an overhaul of the funding system is in order – but disagree on the way forward.
Honors
Power Lists
The 2025 City & State 40 In Their Forties
Meet the primetime players innovating, leading and succeeding across the state.
Philadelphia
Politics
Krasner urges Philadelphians to resist National Guard troops – with their phones
At a West Philadelphia town hall, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner decried President Donald Trump’s military incursion into American cities, calling the president “the real emergency.”
Transportation
Politics
Anger at state Senate Republicans dominates a Philadelphia transit town hall
Lawmakers and transit advocates lambasted GOP intransigency, while Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker announced city funding to restore some routes
Arts & Culture
Personality
‘The audiences are talking with their dollars’: Inside the arts economy’s resilience
Despite federal funding cuts, Pennsylvania’s creative industries are surviving – and thriving – thanks to a potent mix of supporters.
Who's Who
Power Lists
The City & State 2025 Who’s Who in Labor
A look at the Pennsylvanians who champion a workforce powering health care, infrastructure, education and other critical sectors.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
A Q&A with former U.S. Sen. Bob Casey
City & State caught up with the former three-term senator, who’s back home in Scranton, about his two new jobs – at Dilworth Paxson and The University of Scranton – and got a dose of historical perspective on our political landscape.
