Brooke Schultz | Associated Press
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is a prolific poster, but legislation seeking to ban the app from state networks and devices could reach his desk soon.
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Voters elected a former school board member on Tuesday to represent them in a Philadelphia suburb that has been trending more to the left. Jim Prokopiak’s election to the Bucks County seat will give Democrats a 102-100 majority in the House.
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Taylor Swift is adding one more accolade to her list of accomplishments this year: a resolution recognizing 2023 as the Taylor Swift era in her home state of Pennsylvania.
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Lawmakers are moving past a monthslong budget feud in Pennsylvania’s Capitol. The House and Senate approved legislation Wednesday that ties up loose ends and sends millions more to subsidize private school tuition and child care.
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Public school advocates in Pennsylvania are criticizing publicly funded programs that help underwrite tuition at private and religious schools, saying many of the eligible schools discriminate by cherry-picking the students they want to teach.
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Pennsylvania’s highest court is deliberating whether the Legislature can proceed with its impeachment trial against Philadelphia’s elected progressive prosecutor.
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House lawmakers approved delayed annual state subsidies for the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, Lincoln and Temple on Tuesday, setting a condition that the schools freeze tuition next year.
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The measure seeks to expand what the state’s four state-related universities — the University of Pittsburgh, Temple, Lincoln and Penn State — have to publicly disclose.
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A bill passed the Pennsylvania state Senate Tuesday that would require parents to opt in to allow children to view books deemed sexually explicit.
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Proposals to let independent voters cast ballots in party nomination primaries passed a Pennsylvania House of Representatives committee Tuesday, raising the prospect that they could pass the full chamber and take effect in time for the 2024 election.