@newhampshirebulletin.com reporter @willskipworth.bsky.social has won the prestigious 2026 Livingston Award for local reporting, @umwallacehouse.bsky.social and @umich.edu announced today.
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William Skipworth, a staff reporter for the New Hampshire Bulletin since January 2025, has won this year’s Livingston Award for Local Reporting for his series on abuse and neglect in the state’s disab...
Commentary:
For the semiquincentennial events in 2026, which have been branded America 250, Philadelphia is an epicenter of sports again.
If excitement over these events feels reserved, it might be because so many Philadelphians have been priced out of them.
From @theconversation.com
In a federal court filing, the Justice Department significantly hedged the data-sharing plan, pulling back from a position the Trump administration advanced last week.
From @statesnewsroom.com
Lawmakers filed more than 134 bills across 31 states this year related to AI in education, focusing on data privacy, usage restriction in the classroom, literacy and training, according to MultiState, a government relations firm.
From @stateline.org
The state House voted to tax tech companies that run digital ads in the commonwealth, and use the revenue to fund a property tax rebate for seniors.
The Independent Fiscal Office estimates the measure could bring in roughly $329 million in the 2026-2027 fiscal year.
From @iankarbal.bsky.social
House lawmakers are calling on the state Senate to pass legislation that would allow Pennsylvania’s high school athletics governing body to split up playoff competition for public and private schools.
From @emilyscolnick.bsky.social
States Newsroom
Philadelphia hosted the PGA Championship in May. Soon,the FIFA World Cup, MLB All-Star Game, golf’s U.S. Amateur Championship and the Philadelphia Cycling Classic will also descend upon the city.
Rainn Wilson, known for playing Dwight Schrute on NBC’s “The Office,” joined a press conference that U.S. Reps. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., and Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., hosted along with religious leaders to advocate for the American tradition of religious freedom.
From @statesnewsroom.com
The annual update on the Old Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund shows that it will “become depleted” in the fourth quarter of that year, a few months earlier than projected in last year’s report.
That would lead to recipients receiving 78% of their benefits.
From @statesnewsroom.com
State senators advanced a trio of bills designed to protect Pennsylvanians who rely on state programs for healthcare, childcare and food assistance, respectively.
Each bill passed unanimously Tuesday without any major objections in the 22-minute meeting.
From @wdownard.bsky.social
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Lawmakers want to ban state agencies from using text messaging to collect debts, saying a recent move by the Pennsylvania Turnpike to collect overdue tolls using that method could cause confusion and put people at greater risk of being scammed.
From @petehallpa.bsky.social
Pennsylvania Capital-Star
A bipartisan group of lawmakers, with the help of a famed sitcom actor, turned the spotlight Tuesday to a central tenet of U.S. democracy: religious freedom.
Rep. Mary Louise Isaacson (D-Philadelphia) said a significant part of the constituent services her office provides involves educating senior citizens and other vulnerable people about text-message sca...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is walking back, for now, a plan to sweep up data on millions of Americans who vote by mail under President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail bal...
With many students and educators already using widely available artificial intelligence tools, state lawmakers and school districts are playing catch-up on AI policies. Lawmakers filed more than 134 b...
