December 8, 2025
by Alex Lloyd Gross The minimum wage in Pennsylvania is stuck at $7.25/hr. Democrats and republicans rallied to raise the wage to $9.50/hr in the senate in 2019. that bill went nowhere when it got to the house and it died. That as the highest paid state legislature in the United States got another cost…
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by Ese Olumhense of Spotlight PA Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — The Wolf administration is refusing to disclose details of wasted coronavirus vaccine doses, including how many have been…
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by Alex Lloyd Gross Resident of Northeast Philadelphia watched with disgust as the city opened vaccination sites in other areas of the city and the Northeast was left out. Sure, people could take two to three hours a day and trek through the city to go to the PA Convention Center, but unless you worked…
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HARRISBURG – Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced that former Chester County Sheriff Carolyn Welsh and former deputy Harry McKinney have pleaded to charges of theft and diversion of services for using Chester County payroll funds to compensate employees for volunteer work, performed both on and off duty, at private charity events. Since taking office…
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by Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA | March 22, 2021 Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Survivors of child sexual abuse will have to wait until at least 2023 for…
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Democratic challenger for the position of District Attorney of Bucks County PA has issued a statement regarding Gregg Shore. That statement appears below in it’s entirety “As a 16-year veteran prosecutor and a Bucks County taxpayer, I am disgusted that District Attorney Matt Weintraub’s top deputy, Gregg Shore, was caught working as a DoorDash…
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Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Declaring it was time to eliminate perks in the legislature, a Democratic state senator this week introduced a bill to…
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Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA Harrisburg— Within weeks of the first coronavirus cases last spring, as large swaths of Pennsylvania’s economy shut down, the state legislature…
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Christopher Baxter is the executive director and editor in chief of Spotlight PA For the past decade, there’s been nothing short of a crisis in our state capital. More and more of Pennsylvania’s sprawling and costly bureaucracy operated without scrutiny from investigative reporters, the watchdogs tracking how our hard-earned tax dollars are spent…
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by Alex Lloyd Gross Bucks County may get a new sheriff in November 2021. Fred Harran is running and wants the position. Currently, he is the Director of Public Safety for Bensalem Township. Since the sheriff is an elected position, it would be the people of Bucks County that hire him to do the job. …
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