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Will Josh Shapiro Get His Trifecta?
The Polling Team , State Navigate
Appalachia’s Black Lung Rates Highest in Nearly 50 Years
Justin Hicks, WESA
New Bill Proposes Property Tax Relief for Pennsylvanians
Cortney Raynor, ABC27
Pa. Small Towns to Get Latest Wave of Fed Funds for EV Chargers
Staff, Inquirer
With Deadline Ahead, Pa. May End Experiment With ‘Skill Games'
Staff, PennLive
As Trump Presses for Voter Rolls, PA Holds Firm
K. Reinhard, Armchair Lehigh Valley
Pennsylvania AG Dave Sunday Urges Hemp Crackdown
Jaxon White, Spotlight PA
Trump Deportations Cost Pa. Taxpayers Nearly $2,100 Each
C. Suttles, Axios
How More Than 3,000 PA Gov't Employees Use AI at Work
Ethan Young, Inquirer
Pennsylvania State Police Are Becoming the Local Police
Emily Scolnick, Governing

Research

Working Class Voters' Role in the 2024 PA Election
Clark, P. F. , Sagepub
PA Voters Bridge Divide in Polling® Event
Deliberative Democracy Lab, Stanford
New UCLA Data: Latino Voters in PA Could Sway Election
Phan et al., UCLA
PA Ed. Funding Reached $22,000 Per Student
E. Aymond, Commonwealth Foundation

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John Prideaux, The Economist
Shapiro: Here’s Why Harris Is On Track to Win
Greg Sargent, The New Republic

Will Josh Shapiro Get His Trifecta?

The Polling Team , State Navigate

Josh Shapiro is on track to win re-election by a landslide. But will his coattails earn him a Democratic trifecta in Pennsylvania? Read More

Appalachia’s Black Lung Rates Highest in Nearly 50 Years

Justin Hicks, WESA

As of last year, Pennsylvanians have filed 143,000 claims for black lung benefits. Read More

New Bill Proposes Property Tax Relief for Pennsylvanians

Cortney Raynor, ABC27

One state lawmaker is looking to provide property tax relief to Pennsylvanians through legislation. Read More

Pa. Small Towns to Get Latest Wave of Fed Funds for EV Chargers

Staff, Inquirer

It is part of a $5 billion program created under the Biden administration. This funding round is focused on building chargers in local... Read More

With Deadline Ahead, Pa. May End Experiment With ‘Skill Games'

Staff, PennLive

Pennsylvania lawmakers inked a budget deal and left Harrisburg last month without reaching an agreement on how to preserve skill games, the... Read More

As Trump Presses for Voter Rolls, PA Holds Firm

K. Reinhard, Armchair Lehigh Valley

For more than a year, President Donald Trump’s administration has pushed Pennsylvania and other states for their voter registration... Read More

Pennsylvania AG Dave Sunday Urges Hemp Crackdown

Jaxon White, Spotlight PA

Pennsylvania growers say the federal overhaul is too restrictive and would kill business for even non-intoxicating products. Read More

Trump Deportations Cost Pa. Taxpayers Nearly $2,100 Each

C. Suttles, Axios

How More Than 3,000 PA Gov't Employees Use AI at Work

Ethan Young, Inquirer

Pennsylvania State Police Are Becoming the Local Police

Emily Scolnick, Governing

More municipalities are relying entirely on state troopers for law enforcement, raising questions about whether Pennsylvania can recruit... Read More

Research

Working Class Voters' Role in the 2024 PA Election

Clark, P. F. , Sagepub

On election day 2024, the headline for CBS News was “Pennsylvania is the top prize among battleground states.” Political experts... Read More

PA Voters Bridge Divide in Polling® Event

Deliberative Democracy Lab, Stanford

America in One Room: Pennsylvania brings together a representative sample of registered Pennsylvania voters for a statewide Deliberative Poll... Read More

New UCLA Data: Latino Voters in PA Could Sway Election

Phan et al., UCLA

The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA LPPI) released a new data brief on Latino eligible voters in Pennsylvania, marking the... Read More

PA Ed. Funding Reached $22,000 Per Student

E. Aymond, Commonwealth Foundation

Harrisburg, Pa., May 21, 2024 — Pennsylvania per-student spending increased to $21,985 in the 2022–23 school year, according to... Read More

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Click on a state to learn more energy facts.

> 50% 40-55% 30-40% 20-30% 10-20% AK HI AZ UT CO NE OK MS AL GA NC VA NJ RI DE MD CT MA VT ME NY IA ND WI OH KY IL TN SC IN PA NH WV MI MN OR WA CA NV MT WY NM TX FL LA AR SD MO KS ID

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Essential Reading

May Aliens Be Deported Based on Their Speech?
The answer, oddly, isn't settled.
The COVID-era Smearing—and Resurrection—of Trump NIH Appointee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Bhattacharya’s path from health policy scholar to NIH director nominee is pockmarked with craters from missiles launched to destroy his scientific credibility by NIH leaders and their minions in academia.

In the News

Multimedia

Zuckerberg Ending Censorship on Facebook: "The Fact-Checkers Have Just Been Too Politically Biased"
John Kerry Tells WEF: Our First Amendment Stands As A Major Block Against Hammering Disinformation Out of Existence
House Committee Rips State Department Over Censorship

American Civics

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Essential Reading

The Ladies, and How We Remember Them
Abigail Adams admonished her husband to “remember the ladies.” 
Teaching the Declaration Starts at the Archives
Every generation inherits the Declaration of Independence and its promises.

In the News

Multimedia

The Greatest WWII Novel
America at 250: A Conversation with Peggy Noonan
Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin

Podcasts

More Criminals Using Teens to Move Guns

Claudia Dimuro, PennLive

The Future of America's Shipbuilding Is in Philadelphia

Michael Graham, DV Journal

With the issues of trade and energy policy front and center in American politics, Jeff Vogel joins the Delaware Valley Journal podcast to... Read More

Who’s Winning in Pennsylvania?

John Prideaux, The Economist

Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week our hosts travel to the state most likely to decide the election Read More

Shapiro: Here’s Why Harris Is On Track to Win

Greg Sargent, The New Republic

As polls show a tight race in Pennsylvania, which Trump cannot lose, Governor Josh Shapiro explains why he thinks Kamala Harris is on her way... Read More


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