A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that The Satanic Temple must be allowed to hold its “After School Satan Club” in a public middle school in Pennsylvania’s Saucon Valley School District.

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/cna/judge-orders-pa-district-to-allow-after-school-satan-club-to-meet-on-school-grounds

After merging to create Western Pennsylvania’s third-largest health system, Excela Health and the Butler Health System have a new name: Independence Health System.

Source: https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/excela-butler-change-name-to-independence-health-system/

Although we need to see less gun violence, Pennsylvania’s GOP continues to block common-sense gun safety legislation, which only hurts the cause.

Source: https://pittnews.com/article/178321/opinions/opinion-curfews-for-pittsburgh-youth-will-do-more-harm-than-good/

“As Pennsylvania’s legislators prepare to return to Harrisburg to sort out the state’s education system and budget, a new report challenges what they call “funding cuts and teacher shortage myths.”

Source: https://www.politicspa.com/august-30-partners/124929/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=august-30-partners

As Stefanos Bibas, a Trump-appointed judge on the Third Circuit, after rejecting the Trump campaign’s effort to disenfranchise millions of Pennsylvania’s voters: “Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy.

Source: https://time.com/6304478/donald-trump-trials-indictments-essay/

At the moment, Pennsylvania’s wage floor is $7.25 an hour — the same as the federal minimum.

Source: https://www.mcall.com/2023/06/13/why-some-lawmakers-think-this-will-be-the-year-pa-raises-its-minimum-wage/

Bills introduced in the U.S. House and Senate this week to fund research into controlling lanternflies drew bipartisan support, including Pennsylvania’s two Democrat senators, John Fetterman and Bob Casey, and J.D. Vance, Ohio’s new Republican senator.

Source: https://www.mcall.com/2023/06/08/congress-in-unity-battling-the-spotted-lanternfly/

Black leaders had urgent meetings here in 1838 when Pennsylvania’s African American men faced the threat of disfranchisement.

Source: https://www.philasun.com/local/new-walking-tour-reveals-phillys-brave-black-community-of-the-1830s/

But that lawyer purposely did no work on her behalf, according to a long-running lawsuit that recently landed before one of Pennsylvania’s highest courts, and Raffa lost the case.

Source: https://www.mcall.com/2023/04/21/an-older-pa-woman-was-placed-under-guardianship-her-family-says-the-system-betrayed-her/

But while Pennsylvania’s governor has immense sway over those issues, its treasurer does not.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/us/politics/abortion-jan-6-democrats-pennsylvania.html

By April, to take one high-profile example, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, working with Goldman Sachs, updated their own earlier estimate of $US385 billion with a staggering new figure in excess of $US1 trillion.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/one-year-on-the-price-tag-of-biden-s-climate-agenda-remains-unclear-20230817-p5dx7r.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Commonwealth Court initially dismissed the case, but Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court reinstated it in 2017.

Source: https://www.mcall.com/2023/06/06/pa-officials-spent-12-6m-on-private-lawyers-to-fight-challenge-to-states-education-funding/

Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, cautions that those looking to become prompt engineers should consider that much is unknown about the future of the industry.

Source: https://time.com/6272103/ai-prompt-engineer-job/

Franklin offers a lesson for Pennsylvania’s Democratic House leaders and for Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Source: https://www.wnd.com/2023/08/dems-stubbornness-condemning-vulnerable-children-failing-schools/

HARRISBURG — A political group almost entirely funded by Pennsylvania’s richest resident has contributed 1 out of every 3 dollars raised this year by candidates running in critical statewide judicial races.

Source: https://www.mcall.com/2023/10/04/one-mans-spending-is-dominating-pa-judicial-races-who-is-he-and-why-is-this-election-important/

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill to move up the state’s 2024 presidential primary election by three weeks, but disagreements have arisen with Republican senators who wanted an even earlier date.

Source: https://www.mcall.com/2023/10/05/pa-house-passes-bill-to-move-up-presidential-primary-but-it-has-conflicts-with-the-senate0/

Hundreds of companies in California already have to disclose their direct emissions through the state’s cap and trade program, said Danny Cullenward, a climate economist and fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.

Source: https://fortune.com/2023/09/12/california-legislators-approve-expansive-greenhouse-gas-emissions-disclosure-rules-big-business/

“Improving the accuracy of Pennsylvania’s voter registration database is a priority for the Department of State.

Source: https://www.politicspa.com/what-is-eric-and-why-it-matters-to-pennsylvania/119396/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-eric-and-why-it-matters-to-pennsylvania

In 2013, the state Supreme Court created a task force to study issues impacting Pennsylvania’s older adults.

Source: https://www.mcall.com/2023/04/21/an-older-pa-woman-was-placed-under-guardianship-her-family-says-the-system-betrayed-her/

Kathy Boockvar, Pennsylvania’s former top voting official, in an interview hours after the settlement, recalled crying during her deposition in the Dominion-Fox case when she recounted the death threats she received after the 2020 election.

Source: https://ktar.com/story/5485778/fox-settlement-part-of-flurry-of-lawsuits-over-election-lies/