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🗞️ In today’s edition. Garrity to challenge Shapiro. The SEPTA debate shows long -term rural vs. Urban Divide. Demes are looking for profits in the GOP regions. Vodka cools Phillie Phanatic.
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The best story
1. Garrity makes him official – he is candidate for the governor
“Garrita StacyDouble -sided Treasurer of State chosen by Pennsylvania, said on Monday that she would look for a republican nomination to question a democratic Governor Josh Shapiro Re -election offer, establishing a competition between a low -profile official and a potential pretender to the White House in 2028.
Garrita said in a statement that “she would restore work, strengthen our economy and make Pennsylvania more affordable for families in every corner of the state.”
Some of the best republicans from Pennsylvania support Garrits in the 2026 Governor race and hope that he will see a clear basic field, although these hopes have been focused in recent weeks by losing the candidate for the governor, Doug Mastrianosuggesting that he would run away again. “(AP)
Elsewhere
Democrats chose John Fetterman at Conor Lamb. Now there are regret. “When he ran to the Senate in 2022, Conor Lamb was raised by over 30 points in a democratic basic Senate. He lost every unit in a state when the left gathered after John Fetterman and against the young legislator who was released as the headquarters of Stooge and the real Joe Manchin Clone. Progresses want you to know.” (Politico)
Congress Book Club: Legislators earn a lot of money from the author on the side. “Earning money on the side hustle and bustle member of the US – except for strictly limited employment, as we say, a lecturer at the university – is generally prohibited by congress rules. But there is one gigantic gap: writing a book. Last year, John Fetterman earned 172,500 USD – just behind his Senate flat sex.” (Known)
The conservative group is wrongly thanking the wrong Evans representative for supporting Trump’s tax reductions. “Advertising thanks to Democrat Philadelphia Dwight Evans led in Colorado, in which the US representative Gabe Evans, a republican, who voted for the act is.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Country
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“When the main services are approaching septa, when the state budget in Pennsylvania arrives in its eighth week, the lines of the battle in Harrisburg become clear: this is the Philadelphia vs. region of everyone.
It was a chord perceptible in the leader of the majority of the Republican Senate John Mellencamp Joe Pittman Earlier in the evening, in which he quoted the song “Small Town”, in which he quoted the song to remember his upbringing in Western Western Pennsylvania in a comprehensive town. “(Philadelphia Inquirer)
Elsewhere
It was explained that conflicting visions to finance other septa and PA public transport agencies. “Because the next bizarre week ended in Pennsylvania without a budget completed, Democrats and Republicans dug contradictory positions around the most important session problem: money for public transport. Presses.” (Spotlight Pa)
Week, septa cuts cuss: Will they affect you? “Transit service riders are in the face of reduced service, higher tariffs and eliminations of dozens of routes, just like school and work again receive at the end of August.” (Billy Pen)
Shapiro still promotes the voter registration site that imitates the official website of state elections-and browsing your data. “Governor Josh Shapiro continues to cooperate with the Voters’ Registration website with an internet address deceptive to the official Department of State in Pennsylvania, but which also collects personal data of registration to partisan political advertising.” (Broad + Liberty)
The largest school of Cyber Charter Pa is hiding a detailed financial statement because the legislators are debating reforms. “The Commonwealth Charterar Academy, the largest in Pa Cyber Charter School, ceased to transfer detailed financial statements to the Trustees Council to monthly meetings of the board, ending the transparency policy that has been at school for over a decade.” (Pennlive)
Around the community of nations
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“Creating a place to get involved with people in rural areas who Matt Hildreth He said that he was especially fed up with a crazy politician, he is a challenge. He said he was seeking to find a common plane between various political losses. “(LNP)
Elsewhere
PA Budget defeat: Taxpayers lose money as state leaders “cannot collect joint action”. “Taxpayers in Butler and many other Pennsylvania’s Flams should know that the state budget defeat already costs them money, which otherwise” aid people “, according to the commissioner of the unit butler Kevin Boozel.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Parker calls the proposal of the GOP Senate “Fuzzy Math” and calls on legislators to finance SEPTA. “The mayor of CHELELLE L. Parker on Friday formulated the planned main reduction in Sept services as destructive to the city and fiscal health of the state – but he refused to develop a detailed emergency plans to support residents looking for alternative alternatives.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Tony Moreno, a candidate for the mayor in Pittsburgh, Tony Moreno stands in front of the battle uphill – but he thinks he can “download”. “Sometimes a post -field character, Moreno hopes to use her attitude to the affirmative, but the basic goals, which is security and a clean city.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Editorial
4. What do you think?
- LNP Lancasteronline editors have a double edition standard. (Rep. Lloyd Smucker)
- Shapiro’s Shadow Campaign: Power National PR Funds Taxpayer. (Erik Telford)
- Around the carousel: Pennsylvania’s budget impasse. (E. Fletcher McClelland)
- No matter what some legislators think, septa is not a burden – it’s an opportunity. (Adrian Schulz)
- Pure energy should not be excluded from the future of PA. (Katie Blume)
- The only republicans of Battle Maga did not win. (Peter Kalis)
- Americans change their views to Israel. It’s a problem. (Daniel W. Drezner)
- What Saga Saga revealed about the Parker and Shapiro. (Larry Platt)
- York’s Foreman ignored the warnings and wasted taxpayers’ money. (York shipping)
1 thing
5. How is fanatical in the summer heat? Vodka and water

“Phillie Phanatic has a little secret to survive the dog days of summer.
Vodka and water. Tidy. Keep the lemon.
Not to be hydrated. Nowadays, most mascots order the Happy Hour menu when they really want to feel fresh and pristine inside. “(AP)
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