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Let’s get right to it.  According to U.S. News and World Report, Pennsylvania comes in 38 out of 50 states with regard to its air quality ,  and fortieth with regard to the quality of its drinking water .  Republicans like to boast how their anti-woke environmental policies are beneficial to the economy, but once again, according to U.S. News , Pennsylvania ranks 29 th with regard to employment, 39 th  on economic growth, and 37 th in terms of its business environment.  U.S

Hi folks, Hope everyone's recovered from the No Kings rallies throughout our community.  Now it's back to work.   As always, each spring there are two annual occurrences that descend upon us like clockwork: Campaigning for the fall, and the state budget. As always, these emails make the case that these two occurrences are inextricably intertwined.  Politicians argue why their "Yea" or "Nay" votes are a benefit to their constituents, often in an attempt to maintain their incum

Hope everyone is having a good holiday (Are we still allowed to use the word “holiday”?).   First, in preparation for 2026, Let’s do a brief review of the past year.  While 2025 at the federal level had been a real stinker, it had been a stellar year at the local level – especially for Blue Pennsylvania.  Our group had two goals this year:   1.   To allow another 10-year term for the three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who were up for retention in 2025, and, 2.   To ass

There is really no need for me to reiterate what you’ve probably read on a million blog posts already – that Democrats did extremely well across the state and around the country.  School boards with significant Republican majorities in 2021 are now 100% blue .  And many of these gains were in senatorial districts that we are hoping to flip from red to blue.   Certainly, the biggest news was the fact that all of the state appellate judges and justices who were up for retention

Things are heating up in Harrisburg, particularly with our two favorite topics – the 2025/26 state budget, due to be completed by the end...

Two simultaneous gatherings at the Capitol Building this past Tuesday in Harrisburg provided a rather poignant portrait of what the...

One of the major headlines from last week  concerned the U.S. Supreme Court’s inclination toward allowing publicly funded religious...

As if the news has not been depressing enough, SEPTA last week announced the elimination of numerous bus and rail routes and a list of...