Spotlight PA

After Spotlight PA found that Insight Global, the company handling contact tracing for the state, had not secured its data breach issues, the company called on former and current staff for help.

Similar legislation has failed to move out of Republican-controlled committees, and it’s unclear if this year will be any different.

The bill — dubbed the Voting Rights Protection Act — includes stricter voter ID, signature verification requirements for mail ballots, and limits on drop boxes.

House Republicans this week passed a bill that would ban abortions on the basis of a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis as well as one on the handling of fetal remains.

The bill comes as Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country seek to tighten voting laws.

A growing band of board dissidents says PSERS leaders must leave immediately to fix “an irrevocable loss of trust and confidence that is a consequence of persistent underperformance.”

Republicans said terminating the emergency order was what Pennsylvanians demanded when they granted the legislative branch new powers during the May primary.

The bill comes as Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country seek to tighten voting laws.

Hershey profits benefit a boarding school that spends generously on its low-income students. But that investment comes with strings attached — leaving some students behind and others mired in debt.

A spreadsheet of data was still online as of Wednesday, raising questions about whether the company, Insight Global, or the state can be confident they know where all the information might be stored.

A growing band of board dissidents says PSERS leaders must go immediately to fix “an irrevocable loss of trust and confidence that is a consequence of persistent underperformance.”

While Democrats say the state should put some of its $3 billion revenue surplus into education, Republicans counter Pennsylvania’s financial picture isn’t that rosy.

A new wave of problems blocked numerous people from filing for benefits they had already been approved for.

The $64 billion pension fund claimed in a new IRS filing that its previous disclosures were poorly worded and filed in “error.”

Buoyed by $3 billion in excess tax revenue and more than $7 billion in stimulus dollars, Democrats want the state to go big, while Republicans are wary of huge new spending.