(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania’s annual budget has ballooned by nearly 64 percent under Gov. Josh Shapiro and his predecessor, […]
Frank Ryan: Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s race to the bottom
When a New Jersey politician looks to Pennsylvania as a model for policymaking, he’s in the middle of a fiscal […]
Ben Mannes: How Philly’s justice system failed Ellen Greenberg
The Ellen Greenberg case is a haunting Philadelphia mystery that has festered for over a decade, now cast in a […]
Trade group files complaint against Shapiro’s ad for Supreme Court retention candidates
In mid-October, the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association (PMA) formally requested that the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board investigate campaign activities performed by […]
Christine Flowers: Judging the judges and there’s a lot to not like
My first job after graduating from law school was clerking for an appellate court judge. From 1987 to 1988, I […]
Shapiro speaks on his attacker’s guilty plea
(The Center Square) – Following a guilty plea from arsonist Cody Balmer for the April firebombing of his official residence […]
Shapiro: Jay Jones texts ‘reprehensible and inexcusable’
The governor condemned the candidate’s hateful words, but did not call for him to leave the race.
By Christen Smith
Philadelphia’s manufacturing revival — From historic shipyards to a high-tech future
Philadelphia’s industrial heartbeat is quickening again, echoing the thunder of shipyards that once powered a nation through world wars. In […]