Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA
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Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg, was briefly inside the official residence while setting it ablaze with homemade Molotov cocktails, police said. -
Advocates called the ruling a missed opportunity to create more transparency around the state legislature and multimillion-dollar lobbying industry. -
The state started tracking deaths as older adults were dying in alarmingly higher numbers. Then a top aging official halted the process. -
The Department of Aging will soon disclose county compliance data related to elder abuse investigations. Failing agencies could face harsher penalties. -
Alarmed state officials did take the unprecedented step of assigning their own staff to help the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging. -
Aging officials in Philadelphia took months to get Luen Ng help before she was killed. She’s one of 1,511 older adults who died in the state in 2023 with open abuse and neglect investigations. -
Ex-Gov. Tom Wolf’s office and top lawyers for Gov. Josh Shapiro have furiously fought to keep this information secret. -
Spotlight PA sued after the Pennsylvania Senate refused to turn over emails between lawmakers and lobbyists. -
The grant program promised money to people promoting Pennsylvania’s beer industry. But awardees were routinely denied their full grants, and now the state is quietly making changes. -
Pennsylvania's no-bid contractors must report campaign donations, but accessing those records is hard. Here's why it matters.
