This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

Former state Rep. Michael Cabell has a new role in President Donald Trump’s administration. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently announced a series of presidential appointments to rural development roles, with Cabell tapped to serve as the USDA’s rural development state director for Pennsylvania. Rollins said the state directors’ work will involve “reorienting the agency to put Farmers First again.”

Graduation season has been great for one Bensalem High School Senior, who got accepted into not one, but five Ivy League Schools. Victoria Mathieu, who got into Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Penn and Yale, shared her acceptance reaction in a now-viral video that’s received millions of views. Mathieu said she’s committed to Yale and plans to pursue a law degree.

Thanks to a new preservation easement, the iconic murals that lend character to Philadelphia streets will be protected in perpetuity. Some 4,000 works of public art painted over decades through the city’s groundbreaking Mural Arts Program have until now been vulnerable to development or demolition. Under the voluntary easement, building owners must commit to preserving existing murals – and are responsible for replacing murals lost when demolition is necessary.

Whether it’s fraught with fears or flukes, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s office has been the center of attention this week amid a frenzy of news. The Associated Press reported that Fetterman was meeting with teachers’ union representatives last week in his D.C. office before repeating himself, shouting and slamming his hands on his desk. That interaction took place a day before New York Magazine published a story in which former staff aired concerns about the senator’s mental health.

It wasn’t denying his culpability in the now-infamous Barstool “F*ck the Jews” sign controversy, nor his suspension from Temple University, that landed Mohammed Khan on our losers list. No, it took more than that: the tone-deaf choice to be interviewed by the right-wing, openly antisemitic radio host Stew Peters and, perhaps most egregiously, Khan’s suggestion that Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy is actually the one who should apologize for being “triggered” by what Khan described as “an edgy joke.” For his part, Portnoy has highlighted Khan’s own social media posts to show why he thinks the erstwhile student is a loser – videos Khan made of himself pouring water on homeless people and, what do you know, cracking more of those “edgy” antisemitic jokes.

A former city finance director and the executive director of a county bar association are both under fire for reportedly mishandling funds. Williams Nichols Jr., a former finance director for the city of Williamsport, pleaded guilty this week to theft by failure to make required disposition of funds and tampering with public records, according to the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. Meanwhile, former Cambria County Bar Association Executive Director Robin Hagins was charged by the Pennsylvania Attorney General of misappropriating more than $300,000 over a five-year period.