-- 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
-- PA’s Role In Assault On US Capitol
-- Post-Gazette: Will Western Pennsylvanians Convicted Of Crimes Related To Assault On US Capitol 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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