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Jaxon White @jaxonwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Budget impasse pushes Lancaster County into financial crisis, won't pay social services next month lancasteronline.com/news/local/b... via @tommylisi.bsky.social at @lancasteronline.bsky.social

Budget impasse pushes Lancaster County into financial crisis, won't pay social services next month

Editor's note: This story was updated on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 6:41 p.m. to reflect additional information from the governor's office about the status of funding for senior services.

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · 3d

School social workers tell me that most homeless children are living doubled up with another family. The number of students experiencing homelessness has grown every single school year for the past 5 years. Social workers say the rising cost of housing is primarily to blame

Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · 3d

It was a pleasure to meet Rodney and Luke. They were so level headed for everything they have gone through, and I appreciated how willing they were to share their story with me. Rodney said he wanted to make it easier for someone else to get help, just like he did

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · 3d

Rodney Feltenberger is a single father who lived in a motel for 1.5 years with his two teenage sons. Luke, his oldest, learned how to easily fall asleep on the floor.

Luke and his younger brother were just two of 2,500 homeless students in Lancaster County
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More than 2,000 students in Lancaster County are homeless. Here’s what that means

Luke Feltenberger stays locked in when he’s on the football field.

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Jaxon White @jaxonwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Nearly 2 million Pennsylvanians who rely on SNAP will not receive their November payments due to Congress’ failure to enact a federal budget. www.witf.org/2025/10/16/s...

SNAP benefits for 2 million people in Pa. on hold during government shutdown | WITF

Nearly 2 million Pennsylvanians who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will not receive their November payments due to Congress […]

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

#ICYMI: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

By @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social, w/ @kuow.org

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.

Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

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Lancaster Watchdog @lancasterwatchdog.bsky.social · 8d

Take a look at today's @lancasteronline.bsky.social for our guide to the 2025 municipal election:
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Voters Guide 2025: Everything you need to know before Election Day

Democratic and Republican voters in Lancaster County are preparing to select candidates for school board directors, mayor and down-ballot positions, including municipal tax collectors and auditors.

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · 8d

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker is claiming defamation after an Oct. 8 editorial published by LNP said the lawmaker is “lying to his constituents” by saying in a newsletter that Democrats are pushing for “taxpayer-funded free healthcare for illegal immigrants.”
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Smucker claims LNP opinion piece defamatory, seeks retraction

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker is claiming defamation after an Oct. 8 editorial published by LNP | LancasterOnline said the lawmaker is “lying to his constituents” by saying in a newsletter

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8d

Former ICE director John Sandweg says the ways in which Holman is conducting operations is totally unprecedented for the agency and clearly appears calculated to be needlessly violent and provocative. It's as if they want a show of mayhem, he offers. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Those Rules Are Gone’: How ICE Is Rethinking its Raids

ICE used to arrest the “worst first.” Under the new Trump administration, the agency is following a different playbook, says a former ICE chief.

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Jaxon White @jaxonwhite.bsky.social · 9d

Ron Hetrick, president and CEO of the company that owns WITF and LNP | LancasterOnline, announced his resignation Monday, effective immediately. lancasteronline.com/news/local/t...

Top executive at WITF, LNP | LancasterOnline resigns

Ron Hetrick, president and CEO of the company that owns WITF and LNP | LancasterOnline, announced his resignation Monday, effective immediately.

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · 9d

Ephrata will be a place to watch this November.

For the first time in decades, Democrats have fielded a full slate of candidates for school board, borough council and mayor. They're optimistic about their chances in the small, bright red borough

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Democratic Party's momentum builds in Ephrata with first full slate of candidates since 2001

Kids exploded with laughter as another piece of candy went flying across Lake Street in downtown Ephrata.

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Jaxon White @jaxonwhite.bsky.social · 14d

Lawmakers spent the 100th day of the budget impasse venting frustrations about each other, claiming the other side is not negotiating in good faith. www.witf.org/2025/10/08/t...

Tensions boil over in Capitol, as Pennsylvania lawmakers hit 100 days without a budget | WITF

The parties controlling the two sides of Pennsylvania’s Legislature spent the 100th day of the budget impasse venting frustrations about each ot […]

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404 Media @404media.co · Sep 16

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · Sep 12

WPSU was deeply impacted by federal budget cuts to public radio. The station received between $1 mil-$2 mil of federal funding. Penn State says it can't fund the station without that money anymore.

The station is expected to close in 2026

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · Sep 12

Pretty much every day, professors would tell me they heard me that morning on WPSU. It was exciting, and a really cool example of how important local news is. This stuff matters. People listened, even when it sometimes felt like I was talking in a vacuum. I LOVED my time at WPSU

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · Sep 12

I spent about a year at WPSU when I was in college. The news department is tiny but killer team of badass women journalists. I learned so much from them. They asked tough questions of me and pushed me to ask tough questions of others

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · Sep 12

If you have not heard the news, Penn State has decided to shut down the local radio station, WPSU. This is devastating for the Central PA area in which a majority of WPSU's region covered rural areas with few other news sources
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Penn State plans to 'wind down' WPSU after board committee rejects plan to transfer it to WHYY

WPSU, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary of bringing public media to Pennsylvania, is slated to close soon, after a Penn State board of trustees committee voted Thursday against a proposal...

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · Aug 14

This week, a local nonprofit brought a handful of unhoused people together to paint a mural on an old gazebo outside of McDonald's in Lancaster city.

The makeover of this gazebo has been really cool to see in real time
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Lancaster homeless community hopes to make impact with new mural at downtown McDonald's

There’s a new set of golden arches at the McDonald’s on West King Street in Lancaster.

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · Aug 8

I got to go on the truck !

LNP | LancasterOnline @lancasteronline.bsky.social · Aug 7

Lancaster County commissioners should have an agreement on their desks in September to continue having Lebanon County’s hazardous materials response team respond to incidents, emergency officials said Thursday.
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Lancaster, Lebanon counties plan to continue hazmat response partnership through official agreement

Lancaster County commissioners should have an agreement on their desks in September to continue having Lebanon County’s hazardous materials response team respond to incidents, emergency officials said...

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · Aug 5

The only English- and Spanish-bilingual public radio station in Lancaster and York counties is expected to cut programming next year in the wake of Congress’ vote last month to rescind public broadcasting funds via @jaxonwhite.bsky.social
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SACA’s bilingual ‘Radio Centro’ loses one-third of its budget from federal broadcasting cuts

The only English- and Spanish-bilingual public radio station in Lancaster and York counties is expected to cut programming next year in the wake of Congress’ vote last month to rescind

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Jul 31

Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted.

One ICE official who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”

We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a…

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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · Jul 28

This is Sue’s story. But it could be the story of any of the roughly half a dozen families I spoke to for this investigation.

And it’s the story of what failure over three decades means for real people, a mother and son.

The tragic consequences of PA's failed mental health system

One family's story reveals the human cost of hospital closures, funding cuts, and the resulting failures in Pennsylvania's mental health care system.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 21

The White House said on Monday that it had barred Wall Street Journal reporters from the traveling press pool for President Trump’s trip to Scotland, attacking the publication again for its reporting on ties between the president and Jeffrey Epstein.

White House Bans Wall Street Journal From Press Pool on Trump’s Scotland Trip

The president sued the publication last week, accusing it of defamation for an article about his ties to the disgraced former financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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Russ Walker @russwalker.bsky.social · Jul 15

Rep. Smucker, it should be noted, declined to speak with Jaxon about the meetings between his office staff and the activists, leaving Jaxon to rely on quotes from a spokesman. The story was about an attempt at actual dialogue ...

Jaxon White @jaxonwhite.bsky.social · Jul 14

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker responded in part to LNP's reporting on a group of local Indivisible members who organize weekly meetings with his staff to voice their opposition to his policy stances.

Full story here: lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

"It is hard to take @LancasterOnline seriously when they’re more interested in amplifying protest theatrics than covering the real work we do for Lancaster and York County families every day. Their recent article about how my staff meets with constituents on a weekly basis is bizarre—they meet with my office staff every week, but they say they can’t get in touch with me? The implicit bias of LNP is clear in their print and digital headlines.
Their latest article lays out the exact reason why I do not do in-person town halls. Organizations like Indivisible have a playbook for intentionally disrupting public events. As I have said for years, I am interested in having productive conversations. I do that routinely meeting constituents one-on-one, in small groups, through telephone town halls, visits across the community, and more. Having a productive conversation is impossible when there are individuals who intend to disrupt the event. Public discourse is done a disservice with these antics.
And leave it to Opinion Editor Suzanne Cassidy and the other avowed progressive liberals of the Editorial Board to ignore how the One Big Beautiful Bill finds over ONE TRILLION DOLLARS in SAVINGS—the greatest amount achieved in our nation’s history for a reconciliation bill. We achieve those savings by rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse of programs like Medicaid and SNAP, preserving the programs for those truly in need. The bill also advances the priorities that the American people care about—low taxes, border security, unleashing American energy, and providing for a strong national defense.
Talk about out of touch. It’s not hard to see why LNP|LancasterOnline is continuing to fail."

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Jade Campos @jadecampos.bsky.social · Jul 2

This week, the county said it had concerns that its longtime hazmat provider, HazMat 2, had misused public funds. HazMat 2 is an independent, volunteer organization

Here's more on what the county had to say:
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Lancaster County will not renew contract with HazMat 2, cites concerns over possible 'fund misuse' [update]

Lancaster County commissioners on Monday confirmed there will be no new contract with the hazardous materials response team that has provided coverage throughout the county for decades.

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