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Pennsylvania Residents Call for Action After Study Links Fracking to Asthma and Lymphoma

Residents and scientists had called for research on health risks for years, while industry campaign denied links.

Capital & Main

Pennsylvania’s Presidential Primary Conflicts With Passover

Pennsylvania State Rep. Jared Solomon doesn’t want to have to choose between celebrating Passover and going to the polls

Zenger

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #69

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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Heavy rains swamp Northeast again as flash flooding claims at least 5 lives in Pennsylvania

Heavy rains are pounding an already saturated Northeast for the second time in a week, spurring another round of flash flooding, canceled airline flights and power outages

The Independent UK

Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor Is Threatening To Veto His Own School Voucher Plan

Josh Shapiro campaigned on a promise to increase funding for schools and expand school choice. Only one of those two things made it into the state budget.

Reason

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will veto the private school voucher program he helped draft

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday he will veto a school voucher initiative that he helped create, in order to end a state budget impasse.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pa. House Freedom Caucus compares itself and the school choice movement to ... Nazis?

PHILADELPHIA — The heated debate over whether Pennsylvania should invest tax dollars to send students from the state’s lowest-performing schools to private schools in next year’s budget has taken a bizarre turn.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Will Pennsylvania Tax Breaks Help Replace Lost Residents?

Proposed Pennsylvania tax breaks could result in big tax cuts, but if the tax breaks happen, will they be enough to help Pennsylvania replace the 40,000 residents it lost?

Kiplinger

Gov. Josh Shapiro charts Pennsylvania playbook for Democrats

There's still a critical mass of Trump-supporting swing voters that will back a certain type of Democrat.

Axios

Al Schmidt, Philly’s former top Republican elections official, is now officially Pa. secretary of state

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Al Schmidt, a Republican former Philadelphia elections official who challenged election denialism in 2020 and testified before the Jan. 6 congressional committee, is officially Pennsylvania’s secretary of state.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pa. voters give Josh Shapiro high marks in new poll, but not so much John Fetterman

PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro begins his first term with high approval ratings, helped by the speed in which the state reopened a collapsed section of Interstate 95, according to a poll released Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Condoleezza Rice: America needs to ‘make a lot more use’ of skills-based hiring

The former secretary of state is famously multitalented, from her virtuosic piano playing to deep knowledge of NFL football.

Fortune

I-95 reopens nearly two weeks after deadly collapse

Officials still aren't sure when the full rebuild will be finished.

Axios

Pennsylvania’s ‘road to hell’ reopens after fire-induced bridge collapse

Biden hails ‘proud union workers’ for speedy reopening after stretch of I-95 collapsed following tanker fire earlier in June

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Major US highway in Philadelphia reopens after deadly fire

Part of Interstate 95 collapsed after tractor-trailer caught fire, cutting off main north-south route along East Coast.

Ballotpedia

State governors issued 49 executive orders from June 5-18

State governors issued 49 executive orders from June 5-18. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) led the field with 15, followed by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) with seven. Governors in 33 states issued the fewest orders with zero.

The Independent UK

In the effort to reopen I-95 in Philadelphia, crews get some help from a NASCAR jet dryer

The race to reopen a stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia is getting a boost from a truck-mounted jet dryer that’s normally used to keep moisture off the track at the Pocono Raceway

The Independent UK

1 trooper killed, 1 critically wounded in central Pennsylvania

Officials are expressing shock and sadness at the death of one state trooper and the serious wounding of another hours apart in central Pennsylvania over the weekend

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Collapsed I-95 in Philadelphia will open within the next 2 weeks, governor says

State officials have been scrambling to reopen the span of the interstate that collapsed last weekend. On a typical day, that span would have seen about 160,000 vehicles pass through.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

I-95 collapse site will reopen to traffic ‘within 2 weeks,’ Gov. Shapiro says

PHILADELPHIA — Gov. Josh Shapiro said Saturday the collapsed section of I-95 in Philadelphia will be reopened within two weeks, unveiling an aggressive timeline to get traffic flowing again through the busy East Coast thoroughfare.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Biden will take aerial tour of bridge collapse on visit to Philadelphia Saturday

President Joe Biden will visit the site of the I-95 bridge collapse on Saturday and receive a briefing on reconstruction efforts.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Reconstruction of I-95 in Philadelphia will be completed ‘as quickly as possible,’ governor says

PHILADELPHIA -- The reconstruction of the collapsed portion of 95 will be completed “as quickly as possible,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Federal officials warn I-95 collapse could affect shipping across East Coast as local businesses feel the squeeze

PHILADELPHIA — The collapse of a portion of I-95 in Northeast Philadelphia following a massive blaze caused by an overturned tanker truck could cause supply chain headaches across the East Coast, state and federal officials warned Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Body found in rubble of collapsed I-95 roadway

Governor says rebuilding of I-95 roadway is expected to ‘take some number of months’

The Independent UK

A tanker truck fire, unidentified body and disaster declared: What we know about Philadelphia’s I-95 collapse

The governor signed a Proclamation of Disaster Emergency on Monday following the collapse

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