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Some Amish recall COVID dictates and question government on measles
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I spoke with U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick yesterday about Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the execution of a man convicted for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood.
“I don't like the idea. I don't think it's a great idea,” McCormick told me.
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ICYMI: Shapiro endorses open primary legislation that passed Pennsylvania House. thecentersquare.com/pennsylv…
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Is AI helping decide your medical care? In Pennsylvania, patients would have to be told under a bill that passed the state House with bipartisan support.
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In honor of legendary journalist John Baer, the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents Association has renamed its summer journalism internship program.
It's now the John Baer Legislative Reporting Internship, where student journalists get to work for 12 weeks every summer in the Capitol alongside the professional reporting corps that covers it daily.
It's a paid internship, supported by donations and volunteerism.
You can support future interns in honor of John, who spent many years helping to fundraise for the program one former intern called "an experience you can brag about, and I certainly have."
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Remembering a Capitol legend …
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A psychology expert told House lawmakers that AI chatbots aren't ready for kids, and that young users are paying the price while their brains are still developing.
Gordon Felt, who lost a brother on Flight 93, said the founders of the U.S. staked everything on the concept that ordinary people could defend the nation. The Flight 93 passengers and crew, he said, proved it.
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Fetterman: I'm always going to reject the extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life. Dave McCormick is the kind of senator that gets the job done, and he's going to fight for Pennsylvania.
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Public records requests sent to municipalities hosting nine data center proposals that were in Gov. Josh Shapiro's "fast track" state permitting program in early June revealed that four had signed "NDA's."
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Shapiro dismisses 'online conspiracy theories’ about contested measles deaths | Pennsylvania | thecentersquare.com thecentersquare.com/pennsylv…
Questions raised about Shapiro's 'measles-associated' deaths
Residents in the local area also shared their thoughts on the news with @thecentersquare
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Shapiro reverses course on data center industry he once embraced
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A Pennsylvania sentencing problem lawmakers failed to fix is now back in the spotlight.
Attorney General Dave Sunday warned legislators that second-degree murder is currently the only crime in Pennsylvania without a statutory sentencing framework after the state Supreme Court struck down mandatory life-without-parole guidelines earlier this year. More than 1,100 inmates could seek sentence reviews as lawmakers remain at an impasse.
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Nearly two dozen state attorneys general banded together as early as April 2024 to plot litigation against @realDonaldTrump long before he was reelected, according to a confidential document obtained by The Center Square.
The document was signed approximately three months before President Joe Biden exited from the race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president. It was signed nearly seven months before Trump was reelected by 2.3 million more votes than Harris, almost nine months before he was inaugurated.
State attorneys general have sued the Trump Administration nearly 100 times since January 2025. The coordinated effort appears to have a nickname: the “Project for Federal Accountability.”
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120-plus Allegheny second-degree murder cases in 'land of the unknown'
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Dozens of property owners are fighting eminent domain filings in a rural area of Luzerne that is a hotbed of planning for energy-hungry data centers that are on Gov. Josh Shapiro's "Fast Track" list.
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EXCLUSIVE from @John__Cole and @thecentersquare:
Fetterman and McCormick campaigns team up for joint fundraising committee
"This group of donors value the collaboration exhibited by Senators McCormick and Fetterman for Pennsylvania and want to support both of them." — McCormick campaign spokesman Mike DeVanney
The two Pennsylvania senators have formed a joint fundraising committee despite representing opposing political parties.
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Pennsylvania's public-school employees' pension fund is $41 billion short of what it needs to pay promised benefits. Last year, it missed the investment benchmark that officials set, a result they said was "primarily due to performance within private equity."
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