There are no statewide ballot measures this year, but some voters may see local ballot questions.East Whiteland Township in Chester County, for instance, will see one.Check with your county election office to be sure. If you’d like to see a sample ballot, you can use Spotlight PA’ssampl...
Williams co-opted Shapiro’sterm: “I found [Shapiro] to be ‘uniquely unserious’ in his tweets and his mannerisms in the way that he dealt with half of Pennsylvania who disagreed with the outcome of the election.”
As a result, maps showing the results of statewide elections invariably form a shape that resembles a "T". Pennsylvania retains the death penalty, although there is currently a gubernatorial hold on executions.[188] Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators are Republican Dave McCormick and Democrat ...
Mastriano had said he supported a complete ban on abortion, with no exceptions, and had been a point person in Trump's drive to stay in power and spread lies about a stolen election. Shapiro, a political force strong enough to clear the Democratic primary, has now won three state...
Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2022-23 budget proposal has already begun to address this. He suggests a $1.75 billion down payment to schools on the $4.6 billion gap. The state has the money to do this. It just needs to cut wasteful spending elsewhere and close tax loopholes. ...
Ironically, the same “accountability” measures used to “demonstrate” poor schools are failing could be used to prove the common sense notion that unfairly funding schools leads to poor academic results. In any case, far rightdemagogues like House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, are already...
Pennsylvania law requires an automatic statewide recount if 0.5 percent or less of the vote separates the two leading candidates. McCormick, the candidate with fewer votes in the race, could have waived the recount but did not. He also went to court, with attorneys arguing that undated — but...
Chris Fowler, a Penn State political science professor, noted that some observers might see that as cause for concern. But he sees it as an expected result when looking at statewide election results. “Certainly when the majority of the vote goes for Republicans and Democrats retain a majority...
At present, the statewide tuition rate for cyber charter schoolsranges from $7,700 to $21,400 per student per year. Wolf figures that number should be a flat $9,500. That should save an estimated $133 million annually. However, Wolf’s proposal is double the cost of providing a full-...
The violence at the U.S. Capitol was “the direct result of lies and rhetoric still being spewed by some who cannot accept the results of the 2020 election more than a year later, even after investigations found no fraud occurred,” she said in a statement. ...