Category: Pennsylvania

Supreme Court Rejects GOP Challenge to Pennsylvania Election Rules

The Supreme Court declined on April 19 to hear a lawsuit regarding a Pennsylvania voting dispute nearly six months after the Nov. 3, 2020, election. The court rejected an appeal from a Republican congressional candidate’s unsuccessful challenge of the state’s mail-in ballot initiatives, which is the final Nov. 3-related action to be dismissed related to Pennsylvania’s…


GOP Senate Candidate in Pennsylvania Says She Will Back Congressional Term Limits

Kathy Barnette, the Pennsylvania Republican who recently launched her campaign for the U.S. Senate, told The Epoch Times that she supports limiting the number of terms lawmakers can serve in Congress and committed to serving a maximum of three terms herself. “I intend to only run for no more than three,” Barnette said. Sen. Pat…


Pennsylvania Forced to Remove 21,000 Dead People Off Its Voter Rolls: Settlement

The state of Pennsylvania removed more than 20,000 deceased voters from being able to vote after a lawsuit that was settled by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, according to an announcement from a public interest group, which said it reached a settlement with Pennsylvania state officials this week. The lawsuit (pdf) was filed in November and…


Pennsylvania Agrees to Remove Names of Dead Citizens From Voter Rolls: Settlement

The state of Pennsylvania agreed to remove the names of deceased people from voter rolls, an election-integrity watchdog group announced after reaching a settlement with state officials. The lawsuit, (pdf) which was filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation in November 2020, alleged that some 21,000 registrants who had died were still on the state’s voter rolls at…


Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf Vows to Block Transgender Sports Bill

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday said he would veto a bill seeking to ban transgender athletes from competing in school-sponsored girls’ sports. The proposed legislation, like many of its kind, holds that forcing women to “compete against biological males playing on women’s sports teams” is a violation of Title IX, the federal law that…


A Union’s Support of Biden Does Little to Save Members’ Jobs in Pennsylvania

Commentary ROARING SPRING, Pennsylvania—When the Appvion Inc. paper mill plant shut its doors for good on April 1, putting 293 people out of work, it marked the first significant manufacturing loss in this state since President Joe Biden took office. “We were all completely blindsided,” said state Sen. Judy Ward, who claims she and other…


House GOPers Seek Missing Nursing Home Deaths Data, Suspect Coverup in Five States

House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Republican Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania believes he and four colleagues aren’t getting copies of monthly nursing home data because state and federal officials have something to hide. “I don’t know how many times you have to send letters and make requests for data and get no response at all,”…


Amish, Mennonite Communities in Pennsylvania May Have Reached Herd Immunity: Medical Center

Amish and Mennonite communities in a Pennsylvania county may have reached immunity for the CCP virus, according to a local health official. Allen Hoover, an administrator at the Parochial Medical Center in the heart of the Amish community in Lancaster County’s New Holland Borough, said he believes as many as nine in 10 households in the…


Entire Town Surprises Their Only UPS Driver to Tears With $1,000 Thank-You Gift: Video

The small town of Dauphin, Pennsylvania, has just under 800 residents, and only one UPS driver. It’s the sort of place where everyone knows everyone. The town residents decided to thank their only UPS driver with a $1,000 gift that moved him to tears. UPS driver Chad Turns has been delivering packages for more than…


‘Ghost Gun’ Kits Banned by Biggest Gun Show Promoter in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced on Monday that the biggest gun show promoter in Pennsylvania has banned the sale of so-called “80 percent receiver” kits, a common basis for untraceable homemade ghost guns. Shapiro said at a March 15 press conference that Eagle Arms Productions has agreed to stop selling the kits at its…