Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Road Noise Meters, San Francisco Red State Boycott, and Pennsylvania's Political Cartoon Ban (Vol. 15)
Good intentions, bad results.
Censorship of 2,872 Pennsylvania license plates raises free speech questions.
Even though police found no signs of drugs or other contraband, Holly Elish was strip-searched by Pennsylvania police officers.
"The people who violated the governor's mandates and orders should face some consequences," a Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board member said in 2022.
Smokestack-chasing is out. A diversified economy based on environmental protection is in. But will it work?
Several large public universities are getting multimillion dollar budget cuts.
The tax credits currently rank as the largest subsidy in state history.
The infamous food-beverage ratio may be reformed, but not abolished.
In an era when X (formerly Twitter) is blamed for all the ills of the world, here's a case where it did good.
According to legal documents, children have been forced to sleep on the floor of offices and gymnasiums, with limited access to bathrooms and showers.
The Golden State's new rules—which Pennsylvania's Environmental Quality Board opted to copy—will increase the cost of a new truck by about one-third.
On September 5, the Keystone State is removing a big barrier to health care.
Thankfully, you don't need fancy dining halls or a college degree to have a good life or get a good job.
Josh Shapiro campaigned on a promise to increase funding for schools and expand school choice. Only one of those two things made it into the state budget.
Proposed zoning amendments would bar some existing medical dispensaries from participating in recreational sales, should the state ever decide to legalize them.
A bill that would expand wine sales in the Empire State is meeting familiar resistance from entrenched interests.
A bipartisan solution to degree inflation
There are some jarring contradictions in the Florida governor's pitch to voters.
A Pennsylvania survey suggests that taxes are often a major barrier to economic security, ranking ahead of credit card debt and student loans.
"This is a fundamental statement of morality, of what's right and wrong," Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday. "And I believe Pennsylvania must be on the right side of this issue."
"When you have technology designed by humans, the bias is going to show up in the algorithms," said one former child welfare worker.
Philadelphia's progressive district attorney tried to enact criminal justice reform—and got impeached for his trouble.
More leaders should follow in the footsteps of Govs. Josh Shapiro, Larry Hogan, and Spencer Cox.
A declaration of independence capped a wild day in Pennsylvania's State House.
After two terms in the Senate as a champion for free markets and limited government, Pennsylvania's Republican senator is heading into retirement.
Living without government services isn't necessarily cheaper or easier, but it sure beats putting up with municipal bureaucracies.
If it comes down to a party-line vote, Republicans don't have enough seats in the state Senate to remove Krasner from office.
And is this a good precedent to be setting?
Voters told exit pollsters they had little confidence in the ability of either Fetterman or Oz to represent Pennsylvania.
"The fact that [Dr. Oz] can't beat Fetterman in a race is not anything that libertarians should be biting their nails or clutching their pearls over."
Neither candidate in the crucially important Pennsylvania Senate race has made much of a positive case for his candidacy.
Like Arizona's Marc Victor, Erik Gerhardt is a potential spoiler in one of the nation's biggest Senate races. Unlike Victor, he's embracing the role.
Democrats paid $435,000 to back a pro-Trump Republican in Michigan—nearly $100,000 more than the candidate himself raised.
Fetterman has auditory processing issues related to a stroke in May, but still had trouble explaining why he seems to have changed his mind.
Q&A with Philadelphia's district attorney, who is facing an impeachment threat because of rising crime.
Q&A with Philadelphia's district attorney, who is facing an impeachment threat because of rising crime.
Over time, betting has been a better predictor than polls, pundits, statistical models, and everything else.
Some conservative media outlets and politicians lambast the practice. But if you care about public safety, that opposition doesn't make sense.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is trying to retcon two years of bad policy.
The former TV doctor, who two years ago said "we ought to completely change our policy on marijuana," mocks his opponent for agreeing.
Ignoring the principles of supply and demand, Fetterman thinks high gas prices should be a matter for law enforcement.