Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else--

-- Gov. Shapiro

-- Erie Times Guest Essay: 100 Days In, Gov. Shapiro Must Sharpen His Focus On Climate Change And The Environment - By Clean Air Council 

-- PA Senate/House

-- PA Capital-Star: House Reconvenes Monday, Here’s What’s On The Agenda

-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com-Robert Swift: House Panel Advances Single Constitutional Amendment Bills On Child Sexual Abuse

-- AP: Commonwealth Court Tosses Wolf Lawsuit Against Multiple Constitutional Amendments In One Bill Saying It Wasn’t Ripe

-- Citizen Voice Editorial: Part-Time Legislature, Full-Time Efficiency

-- PennLive - John Baer: Let’s Talk About PA’s Pricey Legislature Going Part-Time

-- U.S. Senate/House

-- AP: Fetterman Returns To U.S. Senate

-- AP: Bud Shuster, Fmr PA Congressman, Dies At 91

-- May Primary Election

-- Erie Times: PA Voters Head To Polls Next Month, A Look At What’s At Stake In The Primary

-- WITF: PA Voters Are Becoming More Aligned With National Trends, Report Says

-- PA Capital-Star: Meet Candidates In Special Elections To Fill House Vacancies

-- AP: Printing Error Forces Lancaster County To Replace 18,000 Mail-In Ballots

-- Election Reforms

-- PA Capital-Star: New Report: 36 Officials In 22 PA Counties Could Pose Election Threat

-- The Center Square: House Panel Plans To Gut Voter ID, Regulatory Reform Constitutional Amendments

-- AP: Commonwealth Court Tosses Wolf Lawsuit Against Multiple Constitutional Amendments In One Bill Saying It Wasn’t Ripe

-- AP: PA Supreme Court: Fulton County Sanctioned Over Copying 2020 Voting Machine Data

-- Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- Beaver County Times: Casey Champions Rail Safety Bills During Beaver County Visit

-- NextPittsburgh: PA Member Of Congress Summer Lee Worries About Future Train Derailments

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Risky Railways From Pittsburgh To Site Of Norfolk Southern Train Derailment - by Ruth Ann Dailey

-- Post-Gazette: East Palestine Ohio 17-Year-Old Advocates For Herself, Other Teens After Train Derailment

-- AP: Norfolk Southern CEO Repeats Derailment Apologies Before Ohio Senate

-- PA Politics Of Russian Invasion

-- Erie Times: Sheetz Drops Price Of Unleaded 85 To $1.85/Gallon Thru April 30

-- TribLive: PA Likely To See Jump In Gasoline Prices Over Next 2 Weeks

-- Marcellus Drilling News: PA Natural Gas Production Dropped In 2022, 1st Time Since Shale Began

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Capacity Limits Restrain PA Natural Gas Production

Remember These--

     -- EnergyNow.com: Chesapeake Energy CEO Urges Slowdown In Natural Gas Output After Price Plunge

     -- Marcellus Drilling News: Consultant Suggests Drillers Fight Low Natural Gas Price By Choking Wells 50% 

     -- Bloomberg: EQT Gas Says Natural Gas Price Slump Will Slow U.S. Supply Growth 

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Local Leaders, DOT Must Stop Plant In Wyalusing, Bradford County To Ship LNG Natural Gas By Rail Or Truck Or Both To Philadelphia  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Environmentalists Being Kept Out Of Philadelphia LNG Natural Gas Export Task Force Meeting

-- American Journal Of Transportation: PA LNG Task Force Takes Testimony On Expanding Natural Gas To PA Ports

-- PA’s Role In Assault On U.S. Capitol

-- PA Capital-Star: New Report: 36 Officials In 22 PA Counties Could Pose Election Threat

-- MCall Guest Essay: PA Is No. 2 In The Country When It Comes To Citizen Militias, What Does Constitution Say About That?

-- PA/Harrisburg Politics Potpourri

-- PennLive Guest Essay: We Know What Hatred, Prejudice Look Like In Whatever Form They Take - By Mark Singel

-- Budget 2023

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Senate Republican Leader To Focus On ‘Responsible’ Budget, More Than An On-Time One

-- PA Capital-Star: Senate Republican Leader Talks Budget, Schools, Energy, More

-- Spotlight PA: Why PA Courts Won’t Be Part Of This Year’s Budget Hearings

-- PA Gaming Control Board Reports March Gaming Revenues Were $515.2 Million, 11.35% Increase Over March 2022

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Gaming Revenue Surpasses $500 Million For First Time In Month Of March

-- TribLive Editorial: Tavern ‘Skill Games’ Are Gambling, Regulate Them

-- Bay Journal: Shale Gas Drilling, Development Yields Both Fears, Funding For Pennsylvania Public Lands - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN]

-- COVID Pandemic/Health

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: COVID Still Demands Vigilance

-- Inquirer:  PA DHS Wants 189 Long-Term Care,  Community Service Companies To Return $7.3 Million In COVID Funding, They Failed To Report How It Was Spent

-- Spotlight PA: Expecting More Than $1 Billion From Opioid Settlement, PA Grapples With Policing Vs. Treatment

-- WESA: Lawsuit Alleges PA Unnecessarily Keeping People With Psychiatric Disabilities In State Hospitals

-- School Districts/Higher Education

-- Courier Times: Students, Authors Fight Censorship In PA Schools

-- The Center Square: State-Owned University System Defers Tuition Freeze Decision Until Summer

-- Law Enforcement

-- Spotlight PA: Why PA Courts Won’t Be Part Of This Year’s Budget Hearings

-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com-Robert Swift: House Panel Advances Single Constitutional Amendment Bills On Child Sexual Abuse

-- York Dispatch: PA’s Self-Exclusion Lists Lead To Hundreds Of Arrests Of Problem Gamblers

-- The Economy

-- PA Gaming Control Board Reports March Gaming Revenues Were $515.2 Million, 11.35% Increase Over March 2022

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Gaming Revenue Surpasses $500 Million For First Time In Month Of March

-- TribLive Editorial: Tavern ‘Skill Games’ Are Gambling, Regulate Them

-- Dept. Of Labor & Industry Reports March Unemployment Rate At 4.2%, Down From February

[Posted: April 23, 2023]