[PA] Senate Takes Steps to Advance Bipartisan Sexual Harassment Legislation (www.politicspa.com)
Now that Democrats have swept school boards in some Republican-controlled districts, what happens next? (www.inquirer.com)
A guidance counselor at a Bucks County middle school had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student, police say (www.inquirer.com)
What, did you expect me to post two good things about Bucks County on the same day?
How Democrats flipped a Central Bucks School Board embroiled in controversy [and book ban nonsense] (whyy.org)
Dauphin Dems Party Like It's 1919 (www.politicspa.com)
Current results show dems ahead by less than a hundred votes: www.dauphinc.org/election/?key=36&race=COMMIS…
Pa. nurse who told coworkers that elderly patients ‘just needed to die’ charged with killing four with insulin overdoses (www.inquirer.com)
Heather Pressdee talked openly about how the elderly, frail patients she cared for at medical facilities around Western Pennsylvania “just needed to die,” state prosecutors say....
Pennsylvania school board ‘high stakes’ elections carve a path for 2024 (www.politico.com)
Highlights: Pennsylvania conservatives are about to test the voltage of education politics....
Are we really going to let Pa.’s richest man buy a state Supreme Court seat? (www.inquirer.com)
You’ve probably been following the recent drama in D.C. over U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his lavish vacations, private jet travel, and even his comfy “man of the people” RV — all funded, it turns out, by fabulously wealthy Americans who want to see ultraconservative jurisprudence, and who befriended...
Pennsylvania court rules former governor illegally joined carbon emissions trading alliance (thehill.com)
Highlights: A Pennsylvania court ruled Wednesday that former Gov. Tom Wolf (D) unlawfully joined an interstate carbon emissions payment program without legislative approval....
Pa. Supreme Court race between Carolyn Carluccio and Dan McCaffery has turned into a multi-million dollar showdown (www.inquirer.com)
Pennsylvania’s voting law is filled with obsolete provisions, troublesome conflicts (www.votebeat.org)
Central Bucks election signs saying ‘Groom dogs not kids!’ are one of many that Dems want taken down (www.inquirer.com)
The Bucks County Democratic Committee is asking a court to authorize the removal of campaign signs in the Central Bucks School District that call Democrats “groomers” and accuse “radical” Democratic candidates of bringing “chaos” to the district....
Philly Inquirer Endorses McCaffery For PA Supreme Court (www.politicspa.com)
The editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer today endorsed Dan McCaffery for the open seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court....
Pa. Turnpike in Montgomery County is shut down due to fiery tanker accident (www.inquirer.com)
All lanes on I-476 between the Mid-County and Lansdale exits in Montgomery County have been closed due to a fiery accident involving a tanker truck and “multiple cars,” Pennsylvania Turnpike officials said Saturday....
Meet the Lehigh Valley millionaire who tried to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election (www.inquirer.com)
Prison staff warned that [convicted murderer] Danilo Cavalcante was planning an escape a month before he broke out [and went on the lam for two weeks], emails reveal (www.inquirer.com)
Highlights: A corrections officer at Chester County Prison warned staff that Danilo Cavalcante was preparing to escape weeks before he broke out, according to county officials… "He noted back in July that this inmate was planning an escape,” Sergeant Jerry Beavers wrote in an email to Captain Harry Griswold hours after...
Pennsylvania leads the nation in horror movie deaths. It’s all those zombies. (www.inquirer.com)
Four For Two: The PA Superior Court Race (www.politicspa.com)
Four for two....
Half of Pennsylvania’s state universities saw enrollment rise this fall (www.inquirer.com)
Pennsylvania’s state universities continued their more than decade-long decline in overall enrollment this fall but saw the number of new students increase for the second consecutive year....
When will recreational weed be legal in Pennsylvania? The outlook is hazy. (www.inquirer.com)
Keystoners, it doesn’t look as if recreational-use cannabis is coming to Pennsylvania any time soon....
West Reading chocolate factory did not evacuate employees before explosion despite gas leak, federal investigation finds (www.inquirer.com)
R.M. Palmer Co. was responsible for the deaths of seven people in an explosion at its West Reading, Berks County, chocolate factory in March, a report from the U.S. Department of Labor found....
One man’s spending is dominating Pa. judicial races. Who is he, and why is this election important? (www.inquirer.com)
A political group almost entirely funded by Pennsylvania’s richest resident has contributed one out of every three dollars raised this year by candidates running in critical statewide judicial races....
Gov. Josh Shapiro met privately with female senators as questions swirl about sexual harassment allegations against a top aide (www.inquirer.com)
HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro met privately with all eight of Pennsylvania’s Democratic female state senators Wednesday, as questions continued to swirl about his silence on the sudden resignation last week of a top aide who had been accused of sexual harassment....
Pennsylvanians Feeling Better About Biden, Shapiro, Direction of State (www.politicspa.com)
It’s the end of September and the end of the third quarter, so it’s time for the Commonwealth Foundation’s Q3 Common Ground in the Commonwealth poll....
How a Moms for Liberty-aligned attack on library content is upending politics in Philly burbs (www.inquirer.com)
When Natalie Cimonetti received a threatening letter from the police chief of Telford, a quiet borough of about 5,000 people that straddles the Montgomery-Bucks county line, she was stunned....
