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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.
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
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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.
Immigration
Politics
Philly DA Larry Krasner, lawmakers vow to continue defying feds on immigration
At a Friday press conference in Philadelphia City Hall, legislators and immigration advocates decried both the illegality and immorality of recent federal actions – calling for resistance and even an immigrants’ strike.
Immigration
Policy
For PA immigrants, uncertainty, fear and resilience are the order of the day
Across the commonwealth, communities and their advocates continue preparing for what the second Trump presidency will mean for them.
Who's Who
Power Lists
The CSPA 2025 Government Relations 100
In Harrisburg and beyond, these are the commonwealth’s most effective advocates
Immigration
Policy
PA pols uncowed by feds’ prosecution threat over immigration
A new Justice Department directive threatens to prosecute local officials who defy federal immigration enforcement orders – but commonwealth politicians say it’s full of legal holes.
Politics
Pre-Inauguration events reveal this resistance movement is nothing like 2017
This weekend’s Women’s March and the 92 Percent Brunch underscore just how much work remains to develop a cohesive response to a second Trump term.
Power List
Power Lists
The CSPA 2024 Power of Diversity: Women 100
Meet the women who are powering change throughout the commonwealth
Personality
Personality
Understanding the Electoral College with Kermit Roosevelt
The constitutional expert explains the Electoral College – its origins, how it’s changed and whether it’s working for 21st-century America.
