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September 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Culture in a politicized era: How PA's creative economy is weathering the turbulence
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‘The audiences are talking with their dollars’: Inside the arts economy’s resilience
Despite federal funding cuts, Pennsylvania’s creative industries are surviving – and thriving – thanks to a potent mix of supporters.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I caught up with Bob Casey about his new jobs, his reading list and what's on his mind for 2026:
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A Q&A with former U.S. Sen. Bob Casey
City & State caught up with the former three-term senator, who’s back home in Scranton, about his two new jobs – at Dilworth Paxson and The University of Scranton – and got a dose of historical perspe...
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August 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
How will the expected Medicaid cuts impact PA's rural hospitals? Perspectives from around the state: cityandstatepa.com/policy/2025/... via @cityandstatepa.bsky.social @pennldi.bsky.social
Rural hospitals brace for Medicaid cuts
State healthcare experts fear what the fallout from the One Big Beautiful Bill will mean for Pennsylvania’s smaller hospitals – and the insurance coverage that keeps them running.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
500 new housing units in 500 days? A closer look at Allegheny County's novel housing plan: www.cityandstatepa.com/policy/2025/...
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Allegheny County housing plan has a 500/500 chance of success
The initiative to create 500 units in 500 days is producing tangible benefits – and could be a model for other regions in the state and nation.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
PA officials are bemused, unfazed by a threatening federal sanctuary list - and its mysterious disappearance: www.cityandstatepa.com/politics/202... @cityandstatepa.bsky.social
10 days after DHS ‘sanctuary’ list deletion, PA officials bemused, unfazed
Amid confusion over a retracted federal list threatening funding cuts to jurisdictions that protect immigrants, local officials across the commonwealth are taking a wait-and-see approach.
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June 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"I don't get what the hell their priorities are" : Shapiro sues USDA over federal cuts to PA farm and food bank funding cityandstatepa.com/politics/202... @cityandstatepa.bsky.social @governor.pa.gov
Shapiro sues USDA over federal cuts to farm and food bank funding
The action by the federal Department of Agriculture is among several federal cuts to nutrition programs in the state.
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June 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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For bipartisan group of PA politicos, a decades-long Shapiro connection
Some of the commonwealth’s political powerhouses have longstanding relationships with the commonwealth’s chief executive.
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June 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Mayoral primaries across PA: nailbiters, blowouts and upsets
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey lost the Democratic primary to Corey O'Connor, while incumbents in Harrisburg, Allentown and Scranton are poised for victory.
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May 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Immigration crackdown spreads fear, uncertainty across Pennsylvania communities
Unprecedented federal actions have immigrant populations and their advocates on high alert
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May 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Given all the misinformation about #ADHD out there, I'm re-upping my reporting with pioneering ADHD researchers here & abroad: www.hadassahmagazine.org/2025/03/05/i...
Israel, America and ADHD
Why are rates of the disorder skyrocketing in both countries? Israeli researchers have some theories.
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May 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Immigration crackdown spreads fear, uncertainty across Pennsylvania communities
Unprecedented federal actions have immigrant populations and their advocates on high alert
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May 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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State lawmakers and health experts debate how to save PA hospitals
During a State Senate Institutional Sustainability and Innovation Committee hearing, panelists laid bare the challenges and offered solutions
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May 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I talked public health with Paul Offit, Philly's renowned vaccinologist & sometime RFK Jr. sparring partner, for The City & State Q&A: www.cityandstatepa.com/personality/... @cityandstatepa.bsky.social @pauloffit.bsky.social @childrensphila.bsky.social
The City & State Q&A: Paul Offit
The renowned Philadelphia-based vaccinologist, public-health contrarian and sometime RFK Jr. sparring partner reflects on the Trump administration, the state of public health, and past and future pand...
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May 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
With private equity closing PA hospitals, lawmakers want the Attorney General involved:
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Crozer closure crisis could catalyze new state oversight of hospitals
The system’s sudden shuttering, which leaves Delaware County without a trauma center, is giving new momentum to long-stalled legislation.
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April 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Perspective from @tarikforpa.bsky.social: It’s time to Washington-proof your health care
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Opinion: It’s time to Washington-proof your health care
State Rep. Tarik Khan explains how Democrats in Harrisburg are working to protect access to health care.
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April 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Five years after COVID struck, here's what PA's education leaders think they got right - and what lingers: www.cityandstatepa.com/policy/2025/...
Lessons learned: PA’s educational evolution five years after the pandemic
From kindergarten laptops to college takeout preferences, changes have been the only constant.
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April 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Thousands rally across PA as part of nationwide protest against Trump's agenda
At the event, dubbed ‘Hands Off,’ local leaders and advocates spoke out against an ‘assault on our freedoms and our communities.’
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April 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I got to interview 50 of PA's finest women for one of my favorite issues of the year: The 2025 City & State Pennsylvania Above & Beyond cityandstatepa.com/power-lists/... via
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The 2025 City & State Pennsylvania Above & Beyond
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March 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
How did the pandemic change Pennsylvania's education landscape? So many ways:
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Lessons learned: PA’s educational evolution five years after the pandemic
From kindergarten laptops to college takeout preferences, changes have been the only constant.
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March 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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7 Pennsylvania mayoral races to watch in 2025 🗳️

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7 Pennsylvania mayoral races to watch in 2025
Voters in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Erie and other cities will elect mayors this year.
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March 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Healthcare in the Commonwealth, 5 years after Covid:
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Fallout: Five years after the pandemic, PA health care is still absorbing impact
Five people who helped steer Pennsylvania’s health response to the pandemic reflect on those early days of crisis – and what we’ve learned for next time.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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As part of City & State’s ongoing coverage of COVID-19’s lasting impact, business leaders provide first-hand accounts of how work life has changed since the commonwealth and the world came to a standstill five years ago.

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COVID five years later: How the pandemic changed the way PA does business
Stakeholders discuss the shutdowns – and what could have been done differently.
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March 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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City & State PA Magazine - February 24, 2025
Purple Reign: U.S. Sen. John Fetterman powers through D.C. balkanization. The 2025 Black Trailblazers. Show & Tell: School superintendents on lessons learned.
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February 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I went to a #TED Talk on democracy, and Trump was never mentioned:
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‘Under Pressure’: American democracy’s future gets debated in its birthplace
TED Talks kick off Philadelphia’s celebration of its role in America’s 250-year-old democracy.
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March 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM