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Looking ahead to the 2025 Little League World Series

Citizens and business owners of Williamsport! We are less than a month away from The Little League World Series! Our fair City of Williamsport will enjoy quite the rush of tourism during the whole month of August. I’d like to offer a gentle reminder that now is the time to ensure all sprinkler systems, fire alarms, smoke detectors and other fire related safety systems have been inspected and are functioning as intended. It is time to put fresh batteries in exit and emergency lighting and ensure all exit doors are operating effectively. Remember to adhere to your occupancy limit and ...

Diapers, asbestos and antisemitism: Welcome to Philly schools

“I believe every child of God deserves a shot here in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said on Fox News in 2023. “And one of the best ways we can guarantee their success is making sure every child has a quality education.” Unfortunately, not every child of God receives a quality education in Pennsylvania, especially in Philadelphia. In fact, Philly children have endured much worse, including no bathroom breaks and rampant antisemitism. The district’s academic record has been notoriously atrocious. More than half of Philadelphia’s student ...

Examining myths and misinformation about Medicaid

Gov. Josh Shapiro isn’t pleased with the recent passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). “Pennsylvania got screwed,” he recently told a crowd in York, Pa., citing his concerns about how the bill “slashed Medicaid.” Contrary to the governor’s claim, Medicaid will still grow. Undoubtedly, the program’s baseline will shrink when OBBB goes into effect. However, the Congressional Budget Office found that federal Medicaid spending will still grow by 50 percent over the next decade. Only in the world of politics can a multibillion-dollar spending increase be called “a ...

A rare but encouraging rollback

The “Big Beautiful Bill” did a lot of things, not all of them good. One positive step was to repeal many of the Inflation Reduction Act’s green energy subsidies. It’s a little disappointing that Congress didn’t repeal all of them, as President Donald Trump promised during the campaign. Yet it’s also somewhat amazing to witness a genuine rollback, something that was never a given for this bill and which typically loses out to special-interest politics. To be clear, I want more green energy from more sources, including wind, solar, geothermal and whatever other promising ...

Casino lobby has 3 strategies to kill skills games

For the past five years, I have worked closely with Pennsylvania’s small businesses, veterans’ organizations and the skill game industry to craft a fair and balanced solution for the regulation and taxation of legal skill games. The result is Senate Bill 626 - a proposal that protects organizations that rely on skill games from crushing taxes, ensures proper regulation by the commonwealth and provides law enforcement with tools to combat illegal gambling. Senate Bill 626 has incredibly broad support, as taverns, convenience stores, social clubs and veterans’ organizations all ...

Terrorist sympathizers in the media

A number of writers for the Associated Press are Hamas sympathizers. Their articles for news agencies are routinely blaring hysterical anti-Israel pieces. The articles which they write make claims concerning the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza, crediting “hospital officials and witnesses.” Rarely, if ever, are names given. The “reporters” quote a number of miscellaneous organizations, again without attribution to individuals. Sometimes names are given of “local” people who apparently are either working with terrorist organizations such as Hamas or support those ...