Author Archive
Honors
Power Lists
The City & State PA 2025 40 Under 40
Meet the 20- and 30-somethings shaping policy and progress in the Keystone State
Immigration
Politics
10 days after DHS ‘sanctuary’ list deletion, PA officials bemused, unfazed
Amid confusion over a retracted federal list threatening funding cuts to jurisdictions that protect immigrants, local officials across the commonwealth are taking a wait-and-see approach.
News & Politics
Politics
Shapiro sues USDA over federal cuts to farm and food bank funding
The action by the federal Department of Agriculture is among several federal cuts to nutrition programs in the state.
Josh Shapiro
Politics
For bipartisan group of PA politicos, a decades-long Shapiro connection
Some of the commonwealth’s political powerhouses have longstanding relationships with the commonwealth’s chief executive.
Trailblazers
Power Lists
The 2025 City & State Pennsylvania Trailblazers in Economic & Workforce Development
Meet the difference-makers in politics, policy and beyond.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
A Q&A with Maureen Madden
The State House’s Aging Committee chair shares priorities and challenges
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
A Q&A with Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging Jason Kavulich
The state’s elder statesman talks about Aging Our Way, older and younger seniors, funding and more.
Immigration
Politics
Immigration crackdown spreads fear, uncertainty across Pennsylvania communities
Unprecedented federal actions have immigrant populations and their advocates on high alert
Health Care
Policy
State lawmakers and health experts debate how to save PA hospitals
During a State Senate Institutional Sustainability and Innovation Committee hearing, panelists laid bare the challenges and offered solutions
Health Care
Personality
The City & State Q&A: Paul Offit
The renowned Philadelphia-based vaccinologist, public-health contrarian and sometime RFK Jr. sparring partner reflects on the Trump administration, the state of public health, and past and future pandemic readiness.
Health Care
Politics
Crozer closure crisis could catalyze new state oversight of hospitals
The system’s sudden shuttering, which leaves Delaware County without a trauma center, is giving new momentum to long-stalled legislation.
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Above & Beyond
Education
Policy
Lessons learned: PA’s educational evolution five years after the pandemic
From kindergarten laptops to college takeout preferences, changes have been the only constant.
Health Care
Policy
Fallout: Five years after the pandemic, PA health care is still absorbing impact
Five people who helped steer Pennsylvania’s health response to the pandemic reflect on those early days of crisis – and what we’ve learned for next time.
Philadelphia
Politics
‘Under Pressure’: American democracy’s future gets debated in its birthplace
TED Talks kick off Philadelphia’s celebration of its role in America’s 250-year-old democracy.
Education
Personality
For school superintendents, it’s a learning experience
City & State talks to the superintendents of the state’s biggest school districts about enrollment, facilities, funding and more.
Philadelphia
Politics
Outside U.S. Sen. McCormick’s Philly office, protesters decry academic funding cuts
Hundreds of area researchers targeted a senator they call “missing in action” to defend the funding that powers Philly’s “eds and meds” economy
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
economy
Policy
PA officials warm up to boosting entrepreneurship
Red-tape reduction and small-business incubators are among the state and local strategies aimed at improving the commonwealth’s historically low entrepreneurship rate.
