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“Governor Josh Shapiro The proposal of the third budget was an act of balance.
On the one hand, Shapiro, a democrat in the first term and up to re -election next year, delivered $ 51.5 billion on Tuesday, which included republican priorities such as tax reforms and agricultural financing. On the other hand, Shapiro maintained a strong foundation of democratic values, in favor of raising the minimum wage of the state and recreational marijuana recreational legalization.
And because of all this, the governor in his speech went through a double -sided lines on the rope, proclaiming cooperation and unity, repeating the chorus: “Pennsylvania is growing.” “(Philadelphia Inquirer)
Elsewhere
Shapiro made a claim to the political center with a very expected budget address. “Only a few months after voters gave a destructive reprimand of their party in November, and when democrats throughout the country are looking for someone who would lead them out of the political wilderness, Governor Josh Shapiro stood in the face of a deeply divided legislator in the largest swing in the country We swing and made his pitch. “(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Medicine focused on profit: Shapiro budget aims to get rid of healthcare for private money. “Rebellion of the healthcare system in Pennsylvania by private investors is part of the new budget plan of the governor Josh Shapiro, which requires additional regulatory muscles to review the sale of hospitals and care homes, fusion and acquisitions.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Trump signs an executive order intended to prohibit transgender athletes from the sport of girls and women. “The order, entitled” Mening men away from women’s sports “, gives federal agencies wide freedom, so that entities receive federal funds observing the title IX in adapting to the view of the Trump administration, which interprets” gender “as a sex as a sex, for which someone was assigned to birth . “(AP)
In Pittsburgh, the national protest against Trump directs anger at Fetterman. “A democratic senator, who sometimes crossed the party lines to support the parts of the president’s program, met with criticism from the protesters from outside his field office in the center of Pittsburgh on Wednesday.” (Public source)
Country
2. PA has a deficiency of financing education worth $ 4.5 billion. What is this supposed to do with this?
“Two years after the courts stated that the school financing system in Pennsylvania was unfair and fundamentally broken, Governor Josh Shapiro On Tuesday, over 525 million dollars were called to determine.
But some supporters of education say that help still comes too slowly for children in fighting schools. “(USA Today Network)
Elsewhere
The battle for limiting the abortion of Medicaid in Pennsylvania returns to court. “A lawsuit, which aims to eliminate Medicaid restrictions in Pennsylvania regarding abortion, returned to the Court of Nations Community this week. And Wednesday’s interrogation presented an unusual scene, especially in the case of a problem as a division such as abortion: both sides in the dispute sat on the same side of the courtroom – and accept the same side of the case. “(Wesa)
The race on running the PA GOP is heated: “Full cannibalism”. “The candidate for the chairman of GOP in Pennsylvania accuses the opponent of the opponent of intimidating tactics and calls for secret paper voting in the Saturday elections. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Negotiators enter into the maze of challenges regarding many billion dollars with the PA budget. “Legislative budget negotiators who received the 2025-26 initial template from Governor Josh Shapiro on Tuesday will have to find agreements in the maze of many billions of dollars of financial challenges-when they set out to distinguish.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Grant program for rural hospitals progress in Pa House. “One day after Governor Josh Shapiro provided his budget address, a few state committees of advanced regulations that are aimed at increasing healthcare at rural Pennsylvania and supporting paramedics.” (Penn Capital-Star)
Games skills Riles of the greatest supporters. “Few legislators want to see games of regulated and taxable skills more than Senator Pennsylvania Gene Yaw.” (Middle square)
Around the community of nations
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“The City Council of Allentown on Wednesday evening unanimously approved the” friendly city “, which manages city officials, employees and police, so as not to cooperate with American immigration and the enforcement of customs law, unless it is required in accordance with the law.
Unanimous voting took place after hours of testimonies of dozens of inhabitants and supporters who called on to adopt the regulation and make sure that the city would protect immigrants, regardless of their legal status in the United States. “(Morning conversation)
Elsewhere
A quick turn of Pittsburgh is possible, says the representative of Deluzio. “Pittsburghs should put their quick approach to the railway from a steel city, said US democratic representative Chris Deluzio. Together with Senator Edem Marky (D-Massachusetts), Deluzio recently introduced the Act on the All Aboard, which would invest $ 200 billion in the construction of high speed railway, extension of existing passenger railway services and electrification of railyds and train corridors throughout the country. “(Axios Pittsburgh)
Hundreds appear in Pa Capitol to protest against Trump, Musk. “After a few years of sleep, the protest movement against Donald Trump returned on Wednesday in Pennsylvania’s capitol – and this time Trump is not the only public figure in the crosshairs.” (Pennlive)
Trump’s order threatens the financing of schools on “indoctrination”. Can it be enforced? “Descriptions on how schools can lose federal facilitate seem to follow a number of problems with cultural war, which drew attention to the controversial meetings of the school board in Pennsylvania and the country.” (Bucks County Courier Times)
The Shapiro state budget does not fall in need of Transit Regional Pittsburgh to avoid cuts, tariff increases and layoffs. “It seems that Pittsburgh regional transit seemed slowly to avoid solemn cuts of services.” (Pittsburgh Union Progress)
Editorial
4. What do you think
- Can great ambitions in the latest PA Shapiro budget to object to GOP legislators? (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Pennsylvania’s policy suddenly seems reasonable. Thanks, DC (John Baer)
- What John Fetterman can do to protect America. (James Goodwin)
- Washington withdraws to pure energy, but he can’t. (Molly Parzen)
- Notes to the American nation – and government employees – about stopping Trump. (Brendan Ballou)
- No taxpayers’ percentage in the Shapiro budget proposal. (Emily Greene)
- Pennsylvania’s approach to reading and writing skills must change. (Rep. Jason Ortitch)
1 thing
5. Eggs-Traordinary Heist
“The assault of 100,000 eggs at the back of the trailer in Pennsylvania has become great that the police have not yet cracked.
Four days after the theft, which law enforcement agencies can be attached to high egg costs, no advantage appeared, said on Wednesday that Trooper First Class Megan Frazer, a spokeswoman for the State Police in Pennsylvania.
“In my career I have never heard of a stolen one hundred thousand eggs. This is definitely unique, “said Frazer, who has several years of work.” (AP)
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