Region continues to see less crime since 2020’s historic highs.
By Todd Shepherd
About: Todd Shepherd
Todd Shepherd is Broad + Liberty's chief investigative reporter. He began his reporting career in radio, working as an anchor and reporter for KOMA in Oklahoma City and KOA in Denver. At KOA he was a three-time regional Edward R. Murrow award winner. He spent eight years as the investigative reporter for the Independence Institute in Colorado, a free-market-based think tank. Shepherd has covered national politics for the Washington Examiner and the Washington Free Beacon, and most recently was editor of Delaware Valley Journal. Send Todd tips at tshepherd at broadandliberty.com, or use his encrypted email at shepherdreports at protonmail.com.
Pennsylvania Prison Society visit to Delco prison presents mixed bag of findings
The nonprofit noted the good and the bad of what they observed – but did not include any statistical analysis.
By Todd Shepherd
Montgomery County state rep. proposes requiring greater clarity on county election website addresses to negate scams
The Democrat’s bill would create more trust in official election websites, but Dems refuse to condemn left-backed data-harvesting site
By Todd Shepherd
Shapiro tied to unofficial voter registration website secretly harvesting user data, mailers show
Partisan website’s address mimics the state’s own voter registration page, but snags user data in the process.
By Todd Shepherd
Democratic-aligned voter registration website harvests personal data for partisan, political messaging
One Republican lawmaker called the website an “obvious attempt to steal information from voters or potential voters.”
By Todd Shepherd
Allegheny County council member: it’s ‘too soon’ to say if county will consider ‘Big Oil’ lawsuit
Anti-oil nonprofits controlled by billionaire donors will speak to county officials next week.
By Todd Shepherd
Delco complaint by former DEI director comes weeks after county settled discrimination suit
Both suits allege that then-Chief Administrative Officer Marc Woolley was at the heart of the unjust or illegal behavior.
By Todd Shepherd
Delaware County Councilwoman: ‘We’re looking at a sizable tax increase…for next year’
The county already raised taxes five percent last year.
By Todd Shepherd
Two of Shapiro’s clean energy sources in new power plan unlikely to arrive by 2035 deadline
One clean energy source the governor wants is “expected to take place in the second half of the century” — not 2035, the governor’s goal date.
By Todd Shepherd
Exclusive: Former prison guard says inmates in alleged cellmate murder were never supposed to be housed together
Two inmates who were judged too violent to be housed with others were put in the same cell. Only one survived.
By Todd Shepherd