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A Democratic state representative from Philadelphia announced Tuesday that he is running for state attorney general in next year’s election.
President Joe Biden’s administration has proposed nationwide minimum staff requirements for nursing homes that exceed the current staffing level that facilities in Pennsylvania are newly required to meet.
The Shapiro administration said this week that state labor officials have begun to see an increase in reports of child labor law violations. Since January, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry has opened 403 child labor investigations compared to 107 cases during the same period last year, a 276% increase.
HARRISBURG — Power struggles and a political scandal. Brinkmanship and backroom deals. Promises and perfidy. All have marked the first nine months of the Pennsylvania legislature’s latest two-year session, one of the most chaotic and turbulent in decades — and one still in a slow boil thanks to a weeks-long budget dispute.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania could move its primary election date as early as March 19, a change that would make the state a more decisive player in choosing presidential nominees.
PHILADELPHIA — Less than a month after their double-digit victory on abortion rights in Ohio, Democrats are preparing to pour millions of dollars into the next big battlefront over the hot-button policy.
Cheryl Lee Carr clutched her phone, willing it to ring. The last time she’d answered it, a hospital surgeon told her he didn’t know whether he could save her mother’s leg, let alone her life. But he would try to stop the hemorrhaging from her major leg artery, punctured by a doctor at a nearby clinic.
The political arm of reproductive rights group Planned Parenthood is weighing in on the race to fill a vacant seat on the state Supreme Court this fall, launching a six-figure, statewide digital ad campaign against the Republican nominee.
Senate lawmakers in Harrisburg will return to the state Capitol this month to finalize the last-remaining pieces of the state budget, a Senate Republican spokesperson said Monday.
