-- AP: Divided PA Supreme Court Picks New Congressional Voting Districts Map
-- PA Cap-Star: PA’s New Congressional Voting Districts Map Is Reflective Of State’s Voters, PA Supreme Court Justices Argued
-- Spotlight PA: 4 Reasons The PA Supreme Court Picked The Winning Congressional Voting Districts Map
-- PA Cap-Star: Democratic Cong. Wild’s Redrawn Congressional District A ‘Toss Up’ For 2022
-- AP: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects PA Republican Plea To Overturn Congressional Voting Districts
-- Republican Herald: Sen. Argall Proposes Constitutional Amendment For Limiting Court Authority To Set Voting Districts [Note: The Senate, House, Governor couldn’t agree so someone had to do it.]
-- PA Cap-Star Guest Essay: PA’s New House, Senate Voting District Maps Are Better, But Not Good Enough
-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Reps. Stambaugh, Hershey Will Run Against Each Other In Redrawn House District
-- AP: 2020 Census Undercounted Black, Hispanics, American Indians And Overcounted Whites, Asians
-- TribLive: Census Undercount May Lead To Funding Shortfalls, Western PA Leaders Warn
-- Governor’s Race
-- PennLive - Jan Murphy/Charles Thompson: These Candidates Lack Fame And Fortune, But They Hope To Be PA’s Next Governor, U.S. Senator
-- WilliamsportS: Republican Candidate For Governor Sen. Corman Said Business Is Like Water - It Goes To Places Of Least Resistance
-- Sen. Corman, Republican Candidate For Governor, Calls For Nearly 50% Gasoline Tax Cut; Use American Rescue Plan Funds To Pay $500 Million For State Police; Float $650 Million Bond For PennDOT [Think About It - There are no limits on what they can charge you.]
-- MCall - Ford Turner: PA Proposals For Relief At Gas Pump Face Headwinds As Price Hits Record $4.39 A Gallon
-- PennLive Guest Essay: Supervised Heroin Injection Sites Are A Threat To Pennsylvania - Bill McSwain, Republican Candidate For Governor
-- U.S. Senate Race
-- PennLive - Jan Murphy/Charles Thompson: These Candidates Lack Fame And Fortune, But They Hope To Be PA’s Next Governor, U.S. Senator
-- AP: ‘We Want To Win:’ Democrats Face Choice In Key U.S. Senate Race In PA
-- Inquirer: Democrats Running For U.S. Senate In PA Mostly Agree, Here’s Where They Don’t
-- PG: In Pittsburgh, Democratic Candidates For U.S. Senate Tackle Foreign Policy Amid Ukraine Crisis
-- WHYY: Democrats Launch Early, Aggressive National Campaign Effort In PA
-- MCall: Muhlenberg College To Host First Debate Among Democratic U.S. Senate Candidates
-- Inquirer: Republican U.S. Senate Opponents Turning PA’s Airwaves Against Dr. Oz
-- PennLive: Dr. Oz Primes Audience For Culture War At Campaign Stop In Carlisle
-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Critics Cry ‘Political Tourist,’ But Republican U.S. Senate Hopeful McCormick Plays It Like A Homecoming
-- City & State PA: Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Jeff Bartos On Economy, Legislating, Saving Small Businesses
-- May 2022 Election
-- Inquirer: Biden To Democrats In Philly: Campaign On Policies That Gave Families ‘Money In Their Pockets’
-- Election Reform/2020 Election Fallout
-- AP: PA Supreme Court Justices Ponder Republican Bid To Throw Out Mail-In Voting
-- Spotlight PA: PA Supreme Court Weighs Future Of State’s Popular Mail-In Voting Law In Republican Challenge
-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Legislature Is Responsible For Election Laws, Not Courts
-- PA Cap-Star: Democratic Dark Money Group To Expose, Try To Disbar More Than 100 Lawyers Who Worked To Overturn Nov. 2020 Election Results
-- PA Cap-Star - Commentary: With The Russian Invasion, PA Republicans Suddenly Found A Democracy Worth Defending… In The Ukraine
-- YorkDR: PA Has The Most White Supremacist Propaganda In The U.S., What’s Being Done About It?
-- TribLive: Penn Hills Refuses To Play Kiski Area Sports Teams This Spring Over Alleged Racial Taunts By Fans
-- TribLive: Westmoreland County School District Latest To Face Book Ban Challenge
-- CourierT: PA’s Book Ban Push Comes To Central Bucks School Board Meeting
-- LancasterOnline Editorial: PA’s Top Ranking In Hate Propaganda Is Alarming, We Must Fight Hate
-- York Dispatch Editorial: Republicans Who Cannot Or Will Not Confront Praise Of A Tyrant Must Be Held Accountable By Their Constituents
-- PG Editorial: Republicans Must Rein In The Extremists
-- PA’s Role In Assault On U.S. Capitol
-- LancasterOnline: Plea Deal Possibly In Works For Lancaster County Man Accused Of Pepper-Spraying Police During Assault On U.S. Capitol
-- LancasterOnline: Cumberland County Proud Boy Member Targeted In Search Warrant Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol
-- AP: First Trial On Charges Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol Ends In Conviction On All Counts
-- State Constitutional Amendments
-- Spotlight PA: Complete Guide To More Than 70 Proposed Amendments To State Constitution
-- PA Cap-Star Guest Essay: Last Year Republican Lawmakers And A Minority Of Voters Shifted The Balance Of Power In State Government - The PA Constitution Belongs To All Of Us
-- Republican Herald: Sen. Argall Proposes Constitutional Amendment For Limiting Court Authority To Set Voting Districts [Note: The Senate, House, Governor couldn’t agree so someone had to do it.]
-- WHYY: Plan To Amend PA Constitution To End State-Run Liquor Monopoly Gets Some Opposition In Philadelphia
-- PG Guest Essay: Liquor Privatization Constitutional Amendment Plan Doesn’t Add Up - Rep. Deasy
-- PA Politics Of Russian Invasion
-- CourierT: How Gasoline Prices, Ukraine, PA Energy Are Shaping 2022 Election - Favoring Republicans
-- PA Cap-Star: ‘PA Stands With Ukraine:’ Gov. Wolf Calls On Legislature To Support Refugees, Divest From Russia
-- PA House Republicans Outline Agenda For Boosting PA Energy Production: Open Delaware River Watershed & State Forest Land For Drilling, Stop RGGI Carbon Reduction Program
-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: PA House Republicans Call For Gas Drilling On State Lands To End Reliance On Foreign Sources [65% Of Existing Gas Leases In State Forest Land Going Unused 40% Of Gas Drilling Permits Issued By DEP Go Unused ]
-- PG - Ashley Murray & Anya Litvak: U.S. Lawmakers Say Russia-Ukraine Conflict Calls For More American Energy, But Ramp Up Could Be Complex
-- Rep. Metcalfe: Wolf Pathetically Weak On Rejecting Russia, Traitorous Sellout Against Expanding Domestic Energy Production
-- PennLive Guest Essay: State, National Leaders Need To Get Out Of The Way Of Our Home-Grown Natural Gas Industry To Marginalize Putin’s Global Influence - Rep. Benninghoff, House Republican Leader
-- Pittsburgh Biz Journal: PA-based EQT Proposes Plan To ‘Unleash’ LNG Natural Gas By Increasing Drilling, Building 4x Pipeline/LNG Capacity, Removing Barriers To Construction
-- Guest Essay: Our Addiction To Fossil Fuels Fuel War: ‘Only Truly Addicted People Chase After Their Next Hit With Singular Focus As The Consequences Of Their Addiction Pile Up Around Them’ - By Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network-PA
-- PG Guest Essay: Ukraine Crisis Time To Pivot To Renewable Energy - PennFuture
-- York Dispatch Guest Essay: Clean Energy Transition Would Break Russia’s Geopolitical Hold - Citizens Climate Lobby
-- The Hill Guest Essay: Russia’s Attack On Ukraine A Clear Warning To U.S. To Become Energy Independent With Renewables - Admiral Dennis V. McGinn
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Clean Energy Best Response To Russian Invasion, Not Fossil Fuels
-- TribLive Guest Essay: Fracked Gas In Appalachia Won’t Help Ukraine, But Will Hurt Our Communities - Anais Peterson, Earthworks
-- The Hill: Here’s Who Stands To Win From High Gasoline Prices [Spoiler - U.S. Shale Oil Producers Are #1]
-- WSJ: Why Are Gasoline Prices So High? Invasion Accelerates Rise In Already Climbing Prices
-- Bloomberg: Biden Wants U.S. Oil To Drill More, Here’s Why They’re Holding Back, U.S. Oil Production Remains Below Pre-Pandemic Levels
-- Financial Times: Oil Spike Crashes Houston’s Weeklong Energy Party At ‘Shocking Time’
-- Gov. Wolf Applauds Biden’s Ban On Russian Energy Imports, Calls On Congress To Enact Federal Gasoline Tax Holiday [Not State Gasoline Tax]
-- WHYY: Gov. Wolf Calls For Federal Gasoline Tax ‘Holiday’ As Prices Soar
-- Sen. Corman, Republican Candidate For Governor, Calls For Nearly 50% Gasoline Tax Cut; Use American Rescue Plan Funds To Pay $500 Million For State Police; Float $650 Million Bond For PennDOT
-- MCall - Ford Turner: Soaring Inflation, Gasoline Prices Have PA Lawmakers Talking About Tax ‘Holidays,’ Distributing Federal Aid
-- ScrantonT Editorial: Gasoline Tax Break Merited, No Assurance Savings Will Be Passed On To Driver
-- MCall - Ford Turner: PA Proposals For Relief At Gas Pump Face Headwinds As Price Hits Record $4.39 A Gallon
-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Have Philly Gasoline Prices Peaked? Are Retailers Gouging?
-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Philly Gasoline Prices Move Up A Nickel, But Crude Oil Markets Pull Back
-- AP: Gasoline Prices Hit Record Highs In Pennsylvania
-- MCall: Gasoline Prices Are Spiking Across PA; Is It Price Gouging?
-- ScrantonT: Businesses Struggling To Adapt To Soaring Fuel Prices
-- WHYY/AP - Susan Phillips: As Gasoline Prices Rise, Philadelphia Area Residents Rethink How They Work
-- MCall: Gasoline Prices Set Records In PA, Lehigh Valley Rising Nearly 20 Cents Over Weekend
-- WLVR: PA Farmers See Fertilizer Prices Spike And Russia’s War Could Make It Worse
-- PA Cap-Star Guest Essay: Partisan Policies Didn’t Raise Gasoline Prices, And Partisan Sniping Won’t Lower Them; U.S. Oil Production Still About 12% Less Than Pre-Pandemic
-- York Dispatch Editorial: American Drivers Do Have Some Reasonable Options In Battle Against Higher Gasoline Prices - Ditch The Gas-Guzzlers
-- MCall: What Cong. Wild Had To Say About Rising Gasoline Prices And Ukraine At Town Hall
-- Warren Times: Sen. Corman, Candidate For Governor, Talks Oil & Gas During Warren County Campaign Stops - “I believe the energy economy is the way… to rebuild our population.” “Given what’s happening in Ukraine and our skyrocketing fuel prices, it’s important to call attention to our domestic oil producers here in Pennsylvania, like Cameron Energy.”
-- Inquirer: Western PA Slovakian Woman Stuck With 30,000 Bottles Of Russian Vodka After State’s Ban
-- MCall: Cong. Wild On Poland-Ukraine Border: ‘Every Single One Of Us Was In Tears Watching It’
-- Harrisburg Potpourri
-- PennLive - John Baer: PA’s Democratic Process Deficit Seems Alive And Well In 2022
-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Reps. Stambaugh, Hershey Will Run Against Each Other In Redrawn House District
-- CitizensVoice: Sen. Yudichak Has Campaign Cash But His Political Future Is Uncertain
-- Dept. Of Labor & Industry: Invites Unemployment Compensation Claimants To Register For Free Credit-Monitoring Services Due To Ongoing Concerns About Fraud
-- York Daily Record: Rep. Frankel Pushes Bill To Protect Transgender Kids And Their Parents
-- WESA: PA Company Becomes First In U.S. To Raise Marijuana Legally For Medical Research
-- Budget 2022
-- House Democratic Leaders Call On Republican Leaders To ‘Free The Funds’ On The One Year Anniversary Of The Passage Of The Federal American Rescue Plan
-- WITF: PA Agencies Pitch Higher Funding To Help Address Staffing Woes
-- Sen. Corman, Republican Candidate For Governor, Calls For Nearly 50% Gasoline Tax Cut; Use American Rescue Plan Funds To Pay $500 Million For State Police; Float $650 Million Bond For PennDOT
-- MCall - Ford Turner: PA Proposals For Relief At Gas Pump Face Headwinds As Price Hits Record $4.39 A Gallon
-- PG: PennDOT Will Negotiate With Group Led By Australian Firm For Tolling Project To Replace 9 Bridges
-- PA Cap-Star: Attorneys For Equity Forward, Real Alternative Anti-Abortion Group Make Their Arguments In Court Over Open Records For Spending Taxpayer Money
-- TribLive Editorial: Infrastructure Priorities Demand Plan For Success
-- TribLive: Census Undercount May Lead To Funding Shortfalls, Western PA Leaders Warn
-- COVID Pandemic In PA
-- PennLive: Is The End Of The COVID Pandemic Finally Here? Or Is It Another False Spring?
-- PG Editorial: America’s Brighter Picture On COVID
-- WHYY: I’m Immunocompromised, How Does A Mask Protect Me If No One Else Wears One?
-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Transit Warns of ‘Significant Delays’ From Vaccination Discipline
-- WLVR: PA Health Officials Say Rural Health Care Can Be Micro Hospitals, Tele-Emergency Departments
-- WITF: Nurses In PA Waited Months To Get Licenses To Work During Historic Staffing Shortages
-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Councilmember Proposes 1% Tax On Higher-Ed Students, Medical Patients
-- TribLive Editorial: Taxing Students, Patients Instead Of Nonprofits Hospitals Is Ludicrous
-- TribLive: Allegheny Health Network To Boost Nurses’ Pay
-- WESA: Nurses At Armstrong County’s Only Hospital Are Going On Strike, After Months Of Negotiations
-- COVID - Schools
-- Inquirer: School Mask Mandates Sharply Reduced COVID Transmission, New Study Suggests
-- School Funding/Administration
-- AP: 4-Month Trial In Lawsuit Over PA Public School Funding Wraps
-- Inquirer: PA Lawmakers Have “Politicized’ Education Funding, Plaintiffs Argue In Landmark Trial’s Closing Arguments
-- WHYY: ‘There Should Be No Underdogs In The Education System;’ PA Students Reflect On School Funding Trial
-- PA Cap-Star: PA Court To Hear Closing Arguments Thursday In Landmark School Funding Trial
-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Private Schools Need To Fight For Fair Public Funding Of Education In PA, Too
-- PennLive Guest Essay: PA Must Do More To Help Students Recover Academically From The Pandemic - PA School Administrators
-- MCall - Paul Muschick: PA Students’ Lousy Test Scores: Should We Panic?
-- TribLive Editorial: How Important Are School Standardized Tests?
-- ScrantonT Editorial: Students Pay Brutal Price For Pandemic
-- TribLive: Penn Hills Refuses To Play Kiski Area Sports Teams This Spring Over Alleged Racial Taunts By Fans
-- PennLive: Students’ White Lives Matter Rally Led To Threatening Call To Lycoming County School District, Prosecutor Says
-- MCall: Book With 2 Pages Describing A Sexual Assault Sparks Uproar At Oley Valley School Board Meeting
-- TribLive: Westmoreland County School District Latest To Face Book Ban Challenge
-- CourierT: PA’s Book Ban Push Comes To Central Bucks School Board Meeting
-- PennLive: Students Return To Class Following Bomb Threat At Shippensburg Middle School
-- AltoonaM: Altoona School District Hit By Cyber Attack
-- Independent Fiscal Office: Student Loan Moratorium Contributed To Decline In PA Labor Force Participation Rates
-- PG: Six PA State Universities Will Soon Find Out The Fate Of Their Planned Merger
-- MCall/TNS: Q/A With Outgoing Penn State President: How He Dealt With The Sandusky Scandal, The Tim Piazza Death And The Pandemic
-- Gun Violence/Law Enforcement
-- AltoonaM: Blair County 2nd Amendment Sanctuary: Residents Want Special Court To Address Violations
-- Inquirer: Philadelphia Reaches 100 homicides For 2022, Outpacing Last Year
-- Inquirer: Philly Police Officer Who Fatally Shot A 12-Year-Old Boy Will Be Fired, Police Commissioner Said
-- Inquirer: Philly Police Killed 12-Year-Old Five Doors Down From Where He’d Tossed The Gun, Recordings Show
-- Inquirer Editorial: Philly Police Don’t Deserve Benefit Of Doubt In Killing 12-Year-Old Child
-- PG Editorial: Pennsylvania Can’t Afford The Death Penalty
-- AltoonaM: Blair County Accepts Solicitors’ Gun Sanctuary Proposal
-- YorkDR: His Short Stint In Jail Sparked Vision That Now Helps Inmates Succeed When They Get Out
-- ErieT Guest Essay: Removing PA Kids From Their Families Must Be A Last Resort For Juvenile Authorities
-- PA Economy
-- Dept. of Labor & Industry: PA Unemployment Rate Fell Slightly To 5.4%
-- AP: PA Payrolls, Labor Force Grew In January, Unemployment Crept Down
-- PA Cap-Star: PA Republicans Passed A Tax Break For Data Centers, Now Crypto-Miners Are Taking Advantage Of Up To $90 Million A Year By 2027
-- Independent Fiscal Office: Student Loan Moratorium Contributed To Decline In PA Labor Force Participation Rates
-- Dept. Of Labor & Industry: Invites Unemployment Compensation Claimants To Register For Free Credit-Monitoring Services Due To Ongoing Concerns About Fraud
-- Spotlight PA: Waning Signups For PA Child Care Program Could Forecast Weak Economic Recovery
-- WESA: Pittsburgh’s URA Wants To Invest $5 Million In Minority And Women-Owned Businesses
-- AP: Walmart Plans Large Fulfillment Center In Franklin County, 600 Permanent Jobs
-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Officials To PennDOT: Slow It Down On Fern Hollow Bridge Redesign
-- TribLive: PA To Receive ‘Hundreds Of Millions’ To Help Fund Rural Internet Expansion
-- TribLive Editorial: Infrastructure Priorities Demand Plan For Success
-- PG: Communities See High Rate Of Evictions As Relief Programs Expire
-- TribLive Editorial: The Real Cost Of Having Or Not Having Child Care
-- Other
[Posted: March 13, 2022]
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