No matter how uncomfortable or politically inconvenient, it’s an inevitable truth that everything we buy these days costs more.
The Nov. 2nd election couldn’t accurately be called a “national referendum” but the results, down to the local level, were earthshaking.
Ordering masks in classrooms can only be done through regulation, not exploitation of a decades-old law intended for quarantining the sick, Republicans say.
In addressing local Republicans, Brobson emphasized his 11 years on Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court and proven track record as a conservative judge.
Unofficial totals showed Biden with 3,295,319 votes in Pennsylvania in the ongoing count, and Trump with 3,289,725. That gave Biden a lead of 5,594 votes.
The frustrated majority party concedes state law will likely continue thwarting their ongoing efforts to roll back the administration’s mandates. Unless legislative Democrats join the resistance, too.
Locally, turnout was 25.1% in Franklin County, with 20,894 ballots, including mail-in ballots, cast.
Here is what led to the current fight between the Republican-led General Assembly and our Democratic governor as to which businesses can reopen.
Wolf vetoed the plan after Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine warned the CISA list, in particular, was too broad to contain the pandemic in Pennsylvania, the fifth most impacted state in the country.
Legislative Republicans questioned the constitutionality of Gov. Tom Wolf’s sudden shutdown order for non-life-sustaining businesses, arguing that it caused nothing but chaos and panic across the state.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Patton Mills criticized Republicans for holding the elections despite the ongoing epidemic, leading to what she called skewed results.
