Controversy mounts in Pennsylvania about what critical race theory is, where it’s being taught, and who’s paying for it. Teachers’ unions continue raising eyebrows.
By Hunter Tower
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As Gov. Wolf flip-flops on voter ID, where do other Pa. Democrats stand?
Pa. Governor Tom Wolf has changed his stance on voter ID laws. Do other state Democrats view voter ID as “Jim Crow 2.0” still?
By Joe Silverstein
Ronna McDaniel: Pennsylvanians can’t afford Biden’s economic crisis
The Biden administration’s economic policy is failing Americans–and in particular Pennsylvanians–in the moment where we need good leadership the most.
By Ronna McDaniel
Benjamin Mannes: Former police officials, now candidates, debunk the left’s efforts to defund the police
The recent campaigns of two high-profile former police officers could represent voters rejecting “defund the police” and favoring more balanced criminal justice policies.
By Benjamin Mannes
In the spotlight
- Laughlin in Penn Capital Star: Pa. Sen. Laughlin: Forensic Probe of 2020 Election Will ‘Further Paranoid Atmospherics’
- Taibbi in Taibbi Substack: NPR’s Brilliant Self-Own
- Klein in City Journal: The bad and the very bad, pondering Alexis de Tocqueville’s dystopias
- Wildstein in New Jersey Globe: N.J. Supreme Court will pick tiebreaker on congressional redistricting
- Lee in Capital Research Center: Left-Wing Groups Flooded Georgia with ‘Dark Money’ and Mail-In Ballots in 2020
St. Joe’s drops contract for professor involved in free-speech controversy
Greg Manco was suspended by the St. Joseph’s University administration earlier this year due to a controversy over Tweets. Although he came out ahead in an investigation conducted by the university, St. Joe’s has now declined to renew Greg Manco’s teaching contract.
By Todd Shepherd
Christopher Brooks: Pa.’s ledger on student-athlete endorsement earnings still isn’t clear
Universities might look at options such as making endorsement earnings contingent on graduation. Meanwhile, mandated issues of equity between men and women in college sports is a trap-in-waiting for these newfound revenue streams
By Christopher Brooks
Rep. Davidson of Upper Darby resigns after charges of theft from state
The long serving Democrat representative has had a checkered past, including a hit-and-run while driving without a license, but has now resigned in the face of charges of theft from the state.
By Todd Shepherd
Krasner undermining murder conviction at Pa. Supreme Court, critics say
Philly DA Larry Krasner’s office has suddenly contradicted their own arguments in a decades-long murder trial after the case reached the commonwealth’s highest court. Critics say it “doesn’t make any logical sense whatsoever.”
By Todd Shepherd
Pennsylvania state department decertifies Fulton County voting machines after third-party audit
The Pennsylvania Department of State decertified Fulton County’s voting machines after officials there participated in a third-party audit.
By Christen Smith
Letter to the Editor: Killing the “right to life” in Philadelphia
Despite Danielle Outlaw, a laser-focused, compassionate, preventive, competent and transformative Philadelphia Police Commissioner, murders continue to surge. There are almost 1.8 murders per day, or 12-13 people murdered per week. This is traumatizing all of us citizens. Philadelphian “citizens” are simultaneously daily/weekly “survivors”. The current year 2021 sky-high count pace of […]