Jake Schuller

PA Politics: A Potentially Grim Future for Pennsylvania’s Mass Transit 0
- News
- April 28, 2025
The future of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth’s public transit system hangs in the balance amid recent hearings over funding gaps. On Tuesday, April 15, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee held a hearing in Pittsburgh on the future of mass transit. The next day, the Philadelphia City Council held its own budget hearing with representatives from the
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PA Politics: Trump Admin Gives Nippon Steel Acquisition a Second Look 0
- News
- April 14, 2025
The Trump Administration has ordered a new national security review for the Nippon Steel Corporation’s proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel, signaling the potential for the $14.9 billion deal to go through. The order comes as shares of U.S. Steel hit a 52-week high, a spike of more than 16% ($44.49 per share) in reaction to
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PA Politics: Student Assembly to Replace Members of PA House of Representatives 0
- April Fools' Edition
- March 31, 2025
In an unprecedented political shakeup, Pennsylvania’s state House of Representatives has been completely replaced by Elizabethtown College’s own Student Assembly. The mix-up that experts are calling the most baffling bureaucratic error in the state’s history has left state officials and observers scrambling to determine whether the transition is legally binding. According to sources within the
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PA Politics: PA to Hire Federal Workers Fired by Trump 0
- News
- March 17, 2025
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Wednesday, March 5 to streamline the process for Pennsylvania’s government agencies to hire recently-fired federal employees amid the Trump Administration’s purge of the federal labor force. Signed during an appearance at the second annual Commonwealth Job Fair in Harrisburg, Executive Order 2025-01 is designed “to
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