Sunday, January 19, 2025

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

 
Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else--

-- Gov. Shapiro

-- The Center Square: PA Spending On Policing Targets Several Problems

-- TribLive Editorial: Increasing Use Of Coarse Language In Seats Of Power Reflects Broader Decline

-- Shapiro Administration Accomplishments: DCNR Makes Significant Strides In Strengthening Conservation And Climate Resilience Across Pennsylvania  [PaEN]

-- PEMA: Nearly $270,000 Distributed To Help Pennsylvanians Rebuild Thru Disaster Recovery Assistance Program

-- Reading Eagle: New PA Program Provided $125,000 To Help 20 Berks Families Following July 2023 Severe Floods


-- Budget 2025

-- February 4-- Governor’s Budget Address

-- PA Gaming Control Board Reports Record December Revenues

-- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso: Negotiations To Tax Skill Gambling Games Feel Apart Last Year, Republican Leaders Are Restarting The Debate

-- TribLive Editorial: Did Taxpayers Win Their Bet On Legalized Gambling?

-- Spotlight PA: Poorest Schools In PA Got An Extra $500 Million Last Year, Is More On The Way?

-- PA Capital-Star: Group Weighs Potential And Peril Of Performance Funding For PA Universities


-- PA House/Senate

-- City & State PA: Meet The General Assembly’s New Committee Chairs

-- Altoona Mirror: Rep. Lou Schmitt To Run For Blair County Judge

-- Spotlight PA: Expanded Voter ID, Mail Ballot Changes On Table As Lawmakers Begin New Session

-- The Center Square: Legislators Introduce Consumer Privacy Rights A Fourth Time

-- The Center Square: New Legislative Caucus Assembled For Business Competition

-- Erie Times: Public Paid Some Of Legal Costs For Sen. Laughlin For Libel Case


-- US Senate/House

-- WESA: Western PA Congressional Members Lay Out Visions For New Session

-- City & State PA: PA Congressional Delegation’s Committee Assignments

-- TribLive/AP: Fetterman Was Elected To Challenge Convention; Now He’s Challenging His Fellow Democrats

-- TribLive: President-Elect Pronounces Fetterman ‘Impressive’

-- PA Capital-Star: Fetterman Signals Support For Some Cabinet Selections

-- PennLive - John Baer: This ‘Different’ Fetterman Isn’t New - He’s Always Been Different


-- Statewide Offices

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: State Treasurer Garrity Warns State Should Not ‘Squander’ Its Savings

-- Attorney General-Elect Dave Sunday Seeking Applicants For Pennsylvania Consumer Advocate Related To PUC Actions  [PaEN]

-- WESA: PA Consumer Advocate Resigns, Alleges Pressure From Utility Companies

-- PennLive: PA Consumer Advocate Says He Was Pressured To Quit In Dispute With Incoming Attorney General


-- 2025 Elections

-- Politics  PA: PA Supreme Court Election Year: High Stakes For Policing, Criminal Justice

-- The Center Square: Forward Party Looks Ahead After 2024 Election Lessons Learned


-- 2024 Elections

-- WITF: Election Investigations Update In Berks, Lancaster, Lehigh, Monroe, York Voter Registration Case


-- Elections

-- AP: PA Supreme Court To Take Up Long-Running Dispute Over Mail-In Ballots’ Return Envelope Dates

-- Spotlight PA: Expanded Voter ID, Mail Ballot Changes On Table As Lawmakers Begin New Session

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Running To Run Elections, Citizens Need To Step Up And Support Their Neighborhoods


-- National Politics

-- TribLive Editorial: Increasing Use Of Coarse Language In Seats Of Power Reflects Broader Decline


-- The Feds - New Administration

-- PA Capital-Star: Butler County First Responders Will March At Head Of Inaugural Parade

-- PA Capital-Star: ‘Labor Shortage Will Only Get Worse:’ With New Administration’s Deportation Plans That Could Hit PA Agriculture Hard

-- Erie Times: PA Immigrants, Advocates Brace For Federal Mass Deportation Plan, Other Changes 

-- Post-Gazette: Day 1 Plans Poised To Impact Pennsylvania On Energy, Immigration

-- AP: VP-Elect Says Individuals Convicted Of Violent Crimes Related To Assault On US Capitol ‘Obviously’ Should Not Be Pardoned


-- PA’s Role In Assault On US Capitol

-- Post-Gazette: Will Western Pennsylvanians Convicted Of Crimes Related To Assault On US Capitol Be Pardoned?

-- AP: VP-Elect Says Individuals Convicted Of Violent Crimes Related To Assault On US Capitol ‘Obviously’ Should Not Be Pardoned


-- Miscellaneous State/Harrisburg Politics

-- TribLive Editorial: Increasing Use Of Coarse Language In Seats Of Power Reflects Broader Decline

-- Spotlight PA: Legal Fight Over Who’s To Blame For COVID-Era $350 Million Mortgage Program Woes Continues


-- PA Energy Politics Of Russian Invasion

-- Public Utility Commission Urges Consumers To Prepare For Extreme Cold Next Week [PaEN]

-- PJM Interconnection: New All-Time Peak Electricity Demand Possible Jan. 20-22; PJM Working With Gas Generators To Try To Get Them Online Before Extreme Cold Hits  [PaEN]

-- Shapiro Administration Urges Readiness In Advance Of Dangerous Cold Weather

-- Bloomberg: Wintry Blast To Unleash Snow, Test Electric Grids From Midwest To NYC  

-- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.11  Ohio- $3.14  PA- $3.34

-- PennLive: PA One Of The Least Affordable States For Gasoline, Report Finds

-- Public News Service: PA Power Demand Spurs Concerns Over Rising Electric Rates, Natural Gas Dependency

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs - 15, Same As Last Week; 21 On Aug. 23

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Bernstein Research Predicts Natural Gas Price To Average $5 In 2025-26 (From $4) Driven By LNG Exports, AI Centers; That’s ‘Conservative’  [PDF of Article

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Weather Causes NYMEX Natural Gas Prices To Soar, Marcellus-Utica Shale Spot Prices Soar Too  [PDF of Article]

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Natural Gas Flowing To Cove Point LNG Gas Export Facility In Maryland Drop Due To Cold Weather   [PDF of Article]  

-- 30 Stakeholder Comments Received By PUC On Adequacy Of Electricity Supplies In Pennsylvania; Increasing Natural Gas Power Plant Reliability To 90-95% Would Mean No Imminent Capacity Problem  [PaEN] 

-- Gov. Shapiro Threatens To Pull Pennsylvania Out Of PJM If It Does Not Protect Consumers Against Soaring Power Prices  [PaEN] 

-- TECfusions Unveils Massive 1,400-Acre Data Center Project With 3 Gigawatts Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Generation In Westmoreland County  [PaEN]  

-- Post-Gazette: Sen. Yaw Proposes Low-Interest Government Loans For New Power Plants As Electricity Crunch Looms 

-- TribLive/AP: Former FirstEnergy Executives Indicted In $60 Million Ohio Bribery Scheme To Secure Bailout Of Company’s Nuclear Power Plants 

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: When Power (Or Labor) Is Not Reliable, It’s Hard To Do Business - By Pittsburgh Works Together

-- ABC27: Democrats Join Republicans In Excitement To Bring Energy To Pennsylvania: ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’

-- WHYY: Philly Area MACH2 Hydrogen Hub Gets Greenlight From Biden Administration

-- Reuters: Federal Appeals Court Throws Out DOT Rule Allowing LNG Gas Rail Transport 

-- Utility Dive: PJM Proposal To Unlock Unused Interconnection Capacity Gains Broad Support

-- Bloomberg: Europe Threatens To Trigger A Global Scramble For Natural Gas, Prolonging The Pain Of Higher Bills For Consumers, Factories

-- Bloomberg: Asia’s Tepid LNG Gas Demand Provides Respite For Gas Hungry Europe

-- Bloomberg: Here Are The LNG Gas Export Facility Projects Set To Advance If New Administration Lifts Freeze In Louisiana, Texas


-- Three Mile Island Restart

-- 30 Stakeholder Comments Received By PUC On Adequacy Of Electricity Supplies In Pennsylvania; Increasing Natural Gas Power Plant Reliability To 90-95% Would Mean No Imminent Capacity Problem  [PaEN] 

-- TECfusions Unveils Massive 1,400-Acre Data Center Project With 3 Gigawatts Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Generation In Westmoreland County  [PaEN]  

-- ABC27: Plan To Restart Three Mile Island Reactor Draws Opposition At York County Commissioners Meeting

-- PUC Sets Feb. 11 Hearings On PPL Transmission Line Projects In York County Related To Three Mile Island, Peach Bottom  [PaEN] 

-- York Dispatch: PUC To Hold Hearings On PPL Transmission Line Projects In York County

-- The Allegheny Front/Floodlight: Natural Gas Was Pushing Coal Out Of Electric Generation, But Surging Electricity Demand Is Keeping Coal Alive

-- Utility Dive: PJM’s Capacity Market Auction Proposal Faces Pushback From Market Monitor, Generators, Renewable Energy Companies 

-- Financial Times: AI Set To Fuel Surge In New US Natural Gas Power Plants

-- WSJ Video: Inside The Push To Restart Three Mile Island’s Aging Nuclear Reactor


-- Flooding

-- PEMA: Nearly $270,000 Distributed To Help Pennsylvanians Rebuild Thru Disaster Recovery Assistance Program

-- Reading Eagle: New PA Program Provided $125,000 To Help 20 Berks Families Following July 2023 Severe Floods

-- Citizen Voice: Frigid Temps Lead To Ice Jam Concerns On Susquehanna River

-- WESA: Why Ice Forms Differently On Pittsburgh’s Monongahela And Allegheny Rivers

-- Delaware Public Media - Jon Hurdle: Brandywine Flood Study Calls For ‘Massive’ List Of Efforts To Protect Region From Future Flooding, Storms 

-- Scranton Times: Dickson City Completes $200,000 Price Creek Bank Stabilization

-- Penn State Extension: 4 Ag Water Series Webinars On County Clean Water Plans; Watersheds & Mapping; Mitigate Flooding & Drought; Tile Drainage Starting March 3  [PaEN]


-- Train Derailments

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: ‘Beautiful Sad Tapestry’ Of Stories Could Bring Hope In Wake Of Norfolk Southern Train Derailment, Attorney Says


-- Education

-- Spotlight PA: Poorest Schools In PA Got An Extra $500 Million Last Year, Is More On The Way?

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Vaccinations Among School-Age Kids Continue To Decline

-- TribLive: Student Information System Used By Southwest PA School Districts Grapples With Cybersecurity Breach

-- PA Capital-Star: Group Weighs Potential And Peril Of Performance Funding For PA Universities

-- MCall: Lehigh University Enters Agreement To Resolve Antisemitism Claims, Feds Say


-- Health Care

-- PA Capital-Star: New PA Laws Expand Access To Health Care, Set New Rules Of The Road

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Vaccinations Among School-Age Kids Continue To Decline


-- Law Enforcement

-- Politics  PA: PA Supreme Court Election Year: High Stakes For Policing, Criminal Justice

-- The Center Square: PA Spending On Policing Targets Several Problems

-- ABC27: Midstate Counties Ranked Highest In Human-Trafficking Offenses Filed In PA

-- MCall: FBI Investigating Noose Found On Desk Of Allentown Employee

-- Inquirer: PA’s Immigrant ‘Baby Jail’ Was Notorious, Now New Administration May Revive Family Detention For Children, Parents


-- The Economy

-- PA Capital-Star: ‘Labor Shortage Will Only Get Worse:’ With New Administration’s Deportation Plans That Could Hit PA Agriculture Hard

-- WESA: PA Launches Rural Population Revitalization Commission

-- Post-Gazette: Charleroi Glass Plant’s Closure Delayed A Second Time

-- TribLive: Cleveland-Cliffs Still Interested In US Steel If Pending Merger Fails

-- The Center Square: Shapiro Could Support Cleveland-Cliffs US Steel Buyout Offer

-- TribLive: Is US Steel’s Future With Nippon Steel Or Cleveland-Cliffs?

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Bizarre Cleveland Cliffs CEO Rant Shows Why New Administration Should Reverse Nippon-US Steel Block

-- TribLive: Administration Delays Deadline For US Steel, Nippon Steel To Allow Litigation To Unfold


-- Other

-- PennLive: May 7 Deadline To Get PA’s Real ID Looming

[Posted: January 19, 2025]

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