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Oct 26, 2024 | 
spotlightpa.org | Sarah Nicell |Trebor Maitin
HARRISBURG — No matter where you live in Pennsylvania, you will be asked to vote for the person you want to represent you in the U.S. House of Representatives. Pennsylvania has 17 congressional districts, five of which are considered competitive by the Cook Political Report. The commonwealth lost a congressional seat during the 2020 redistricting process because its population grew less than other states. Below, we explain who is running in each district and the key issues in the competitive races.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
themidtowngazette.com | Trebor Maitin
Midtown school for disabled students faces transportation headache
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Between when Jose Ramos drops his students off at 8 a.m. and when they leave school seven hours later, he doesn’t get much more than a block away. For a bus driver whose students are all physically disabled, a parking space nearby is simply too valuable to give up. “This school not supposed to be here,” he said from the driver’s seat of his short yellow bus.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
themidtowngazette.com | Trebor Maitin
Midtown anti-nightclub rules revisited
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A set of liquor license regulations put in place to limit the proliferation of nightclubs in Midtown has inadvertently impeded the opening of other types of businesses. The local community board recently announced it will reassess the regulations.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
lancasteronline.com | Trebor Maitin
To Columbia Borough resident Tiffany Hall, the Republican Party is like a family. On Wednesday, she got to address thousands of relatives at perhaps the most important of reunions: a rally for former President Donald Trump. “My thoughts were, ‘Don’t fall, don’t trip over your shadow, definitely don’t leave your notes behind,’” said Hall, 33, the day after she was one of the warm-up speakers at Trump’s rally at the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
inquirer.com | Trebor Maitin
After fending off vice presidential speculation at a Friday press conference at Cheyney University, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro hustled from the reception area to a basement library to film a video touting his education initiatives. His cameras were already waiting. Unfortunately for Shapiro, there was a drumline playing upstairs that the school had invited. His aides dispatched someone to shut it down, but time was running short.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
lancasteronline.com | Jaxon White |Trebor Maitin
HARRISBURG — November 5 will be the first presidential election that 18-year-old York County resident Nate Mitchell will be able to cast a ballot in. On Wednesday, he stood in line outside the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg with thousands of Donald Trump supporters in 90-degree heat to attend the former president’s first rally in Pennsylvania since the assassination attempt against him earlier this month across the state in Butler.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
wesa.fm | Trebor Maitin
If Gov. Josh Shapiro were to ascend to the vice presidency, he would be the first Jew and the first member of Generation X to hold the post. What he would not be is the first Pennsylvanian. That superlative goes to George Mifflin Dallas, who served brief stints as Philadelphia mayor, U.S. attorney, U.S. senator and minister to Russia before being elected vice president in 1844. Like Shapiro, Dallas served as state attorney general under Gov. Wolf — George Wolf, that is, not Tom.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
wvia.org | Trebor Maitin
It was not a smoke-filled room, but a Zoom meeting, where Pennsylvania’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention voted unanimously on Monday to back Vice President Kamala Harris’ quest to become the Democratic nominee for president.
The emergency vote was held 23 hours after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid.
State Rep. Izzy Smith-Wade-El, a Lancaster Democrat who serves as a delegate, said the mood among delegates at the brief meeting was enthusiastic.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
wesa.fm | Trebor Maitin
It was not a smoke-filled room, but a Zoom meeting, where Pennsylvania’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention voted unanimously on Monday to back Vice President Kamala Harris’ quest to become the Democratic nominee for president. The emergency vote was held 23 hours after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid. State Rep. Izzy Smith-Wade-El, a Lancaster Democrat who serves as a delegate, said the mood among delegates at the brief meeting was enthusiastic.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
inquirer.com | Trebor Maitin
Pennsylvania schools will be able to purchase lockable cell phone pouches under a state grant program aimed at improving mental health and school safety. The commonwealth dedicated more than $120 million toward the grant program over the next fiscal year in the state budget signed Thursday. “Kids spend so much time on social media and using their smartphones that it’s taking a toll on them mentally, emotionally, and academically,” State Sen. Ryan Aument (R., Lancaster) said in a news release.
