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    Partisan split on energy, environment makes compromise unlikely
    News, PA State News
    Partisan split on energy, environment makes compromise unlikely
    ANTHONY HENNEN The Center Square 
    Jan 11, 2024
    As energy and environmental issues remain central in Pennsylvania for 2024, the partisan divide in the General Assembly means compromise on major issu...
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    Dems scramble over Senate map
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Dems scramble over Senate map
    Jan 04, 2024
    As we enter a presidential election year, pundits are focused on the incessant drama — criminal and otherwise — swirling around a potential rematch be...
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    Senator calls for probe into Mastriano’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results
    News, PA State News
    Senator calls for probe into Mastriano’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results
    JAN MURPHY pennlive.com 
    Jan 03, 2024
    (TNS) — A Democratic state senator is making the rare call for an ethics investigation into fellow senator Doug Mastriano’s efforts to try to overturn...
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    Casey outlines progress from ’23
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    Casey outlines progress from ’23
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Dec 30, 2023
    WASHINGTON — It’s the end of 2023 and Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has released a list of what he’s accomplished for Pennsylvania — and it’s a lot. Casey he...
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    Pennsylvania’s electric vehicle marathon in review
    News, PA State News
    Pennsylvania’s electric vehicle marathon in review
    LAUREN JESSOP The Center Square 
    Dec 29, 2023
    Over the last year, Pennsylvania set out in earnest to meet federal goals for the electric vehicle transition. It’s been an expensive and complex proc...
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    Odds for more sports betting expansion could fade after rapid growth to 38 states
    National Sports
    Odds for more sports betting expansion could fade after rapid growth to 38 states
    DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press 
    Dec 28, 2023
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — At his suburban St. Louis home, Brett Koenig can pull out his smartphone and open a sports betting app. But he can’t place ...
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    No votes by Pa. House for months because of leaky roof?
    Opinion, Сolumns
    No votes by Pa. House for months because of leaky roof?
    MATTHEW J. BROUILLETTE 
    Dec 20, 2023
    In 1897, after a fire devastated the Pennsylvania Capitol, the legislature met at Grace Methodist Church in Harrisburg. Even a gutted Capitol couldn’t...
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    US senators line up to oppose sale of US Steel to Japanese firm
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    US senators line up to oppose sale of US Steel to Japanese firm
    JONATHAN D. SALANT and FORD TURNER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Dec 19, 2023
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Just hours after the announcement that U.S. Steel would be sold to a Japanese company, U.S. senators from opposite parties but neig...
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    Three-month halt of Pa. House chamber sessions has people asking: Leak damage repair or political maneuvers?
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Three-month halt of Pa. House chamber sessions has people asking: Leak damage repair or political maneuvers?
    FORD TURNER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Dec 18, 2023
    HARRISBURG — It was 1998, and time and modern safety requirements had caught up with the cavernous 92-year-old Capitol building chamber where the Keys...
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    Pentagon’s lack of accountability
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Pentagon’s lack of accountability
    Dec 18, 2023
    Washington in recent decades hasn’t been synonymous with prudent fiscal management — witness the national debt roaring past $33 trillion — but the Pen...
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    Electric vehicle owners in Pa. could soon be zapped with an annual fee
    News, PA State News
    Electric vehicle owners in Pa. could soon be zapped with an annual fee
    JAN MURPHY pennlive.com 
    Dec 18, 2023
    Electric vehicle owners in Pennsylvania could be required to pay an annual fee — potentially the highest in the nation — for the privilege of driving ...
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    House GOP can’t govern, but they try, try again to impeach Biden
    Opinion, Сolumns
    House GOP can’t govern, but they try, try again to impeach Biden
    JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
    Dec 17, 2023
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — House Republicans plan to flee the Capitol this week for the holidays after almost 12 months in power. And flee they should: If the...
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    Bill would strengthen youth mental health support
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    Bill would strengthen youth mental health support
    Dec 15, 2023
    WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced two bills to combat the youth mental health crisis by making peer and sch...
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    Pennsylvania’s loss of county election officials raises concerns about errors
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Pennsylvania’s loss of county election officials raises concerns about errors
    ANTHONY HENNEN The Center Square 
    Dec 13, 2023
    A post-election evaluation by the Senate State Government Committee was amiable between Republican senators and the secretary of the commonwealth with...
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    Breaking the seal of expulsion
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Breaking the seal of expulsion
    Dec 10, 2023
    George Santos, assuming that’s his real name, is a classic type, and in another era he’d be selling miracle elixirs out of a horse-drawn wagon or perh...
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    Pennsylvania’s budget business unfinished
    News, PA State News
    Pennsylvania’s budget business unfinished
    Dec 04, 2023
    HARRISBURG —Three session days remain on the legislative calendar for this year, but it’s unclear if lawmakers will bring a completed budget along wit...
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    Putting Pennsylvania’s legislative compensation in context
    Nation & World, News, PA State News
    Putting Pennsylvania’s legislative compensation in context
    Nov 30, 2023
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    With generous benefits, Pa. lawmakers could be second best compensated in nation
    Nation & World, News, PA State News
    With generous benefits, Pa. lawmakers could be second best compensated in nation
    JAN MURPHY pennlive.com 
    Nov 30, 2023
    The base salary of Pennsylvania’s 253 state legislators is the third highest in the nation behind New York and California, but when benefits are added...
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    ‘Violent’ Congress? Civil War-era lawmakers would laugh
    Opinion, Сolumns
    ‘Violent’ Congress? Civil War-era lawmakers would laugh
    STEPHEN MIHM Bloomberg Opinion 
    Nov 27, 2023
    ATHENS, Ga. (TNS) — Congressional dysfunction took a dangerous turn this month. In the House, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy allegedly elbowed Rep. Tim...
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    Time to figure out marijuana
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Time to figure out marijuana
    Nov 16, 2023
    Pennsylvanians can use marijuana for anxiety or epilepsy. They can use it to ease the side effects of chemotherapy or the symptoms of post-traumatic s...
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    Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity
    Nation & World, PA State News
    Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity
    June 15, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    June 15, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    June 14, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    June 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
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