The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission recently announced a smishing scam being sent by text to random cellphones, stating that the receiver has an overdue turnpike toll bill, and if it isn’t settled, additional charges will be incurred. The deceptive text claims to be from “Pennsylvania ...
While we only mentioned it as an aside in Monday’s editorial, we feel it necessary to expand upon an important point, on which we may have singled potential vice presidential nominee and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro out. Shapiro has less than two years of experience as governor as the ...
Ohio lawmakers may be on summer break now, but when they return to work they’ll have a chance to remove the Buckeye State from the list of those favored by forum-shopping attorneys looking for a sweet spot to file their clients’ frivolous lawsuits. House Bill 637 and Senate Bill 237 are aimed at quickly shutting down SLAPP lawsuits, or strategic lawsuits against public participation. According to a report by the Dayton Daily News, the bills have support on both sides of the aisle. HB 637 was introduced by state Reps. Brian Stewart, R-Ashville, and Elliott Forhan, D-Euclid, in ...
After eight years of hyperbolic claims that former President Donald Trump is a unique threat to the fabric of democracy, the Democratic Party is on course to disregard every ballot cast in this year’s presidential primaries and caucuses in nominating their presidential candidate. We ...
Reporters for Spotlight PA describe the push to legalize pot for recreational use as a “loser” in the 2024 budget process. We must suggest, in that case, that Pennsylvanians as a whole are winners. We remain skeptical about legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, but we ...
The only surprise in the guilty verdict against Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal correspondent who was arrested in Russia last year on phony charges of espionage, was that it came so quickly. The charge itself was a farce. No evidence was ever made public, the hearings were held in secret, and Mr. Gershkovich’s lawyers were barred from saying anything in public about the case. Mr. Gershkovich’s arrest, trial and conviction all serve President Vladimir Putin’s goal of silencing any honest reporting from inside Russia about the invasion of Ukraine and of making Russians even ...
