Jaxon White
WPSU state Capitol reporterJaxon White reports on how decisions made in Pennsylvania’s state Capitol ripple across communities throughout the commonwealth. White's coverage centers on the General Assembly, the Governor’s Office and the broader landscape of Pennsylvania politics.
White is especially interested in the development and regulation of artificial intelligence, how public officials manage taxpayer dollars and policy ideas aimed at addressing everyday — and sometimes overlooked — challenges.
White grew up just north of Pittsburgh in Beaver County, Pa., and graduated from Bucknell University in 2023. His first reporting gig was at LNP | LancasterOnline as a politics reporter, before he started as the Capitol reporter for WPSU and public radio stations statewide in the summer of 2025.
He can be reached at jwhite@lnpnews.com or (717) 874-0716.
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State Democrats push back against his actions undermining vaccinations. -
Consumer advocates and a Pennsylvania public utility commissioner are urging state lawmakers to tax data centers and other large energy users to help lower residents’ energy bills. -
Pennsylvania’s divided Legislature is on a path to collide over the state’s 2026-2027 budget, just a few months after Gov. Josh Shapiro and legislative leaders cut a deal to resolve a more than four-month budget impasse for the current fiscal year. -
A panel of state policymakers at a hearing at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex on Thursday appeared in near-unanimous agreement on the need for statewide regulation of the intoxicating hemp industry. -
State Treasurer Stacy Garrity, the Republican Party’s endorsed challenger to Gov. Josh Shapiro in this year’s election, suggested Monday that Pennsylvania’s rural communities would be good locations for new data centers built to power artificial intelligence technologies. -
Democrats are working to leverage Gov. Josh Shapiro’s name at the top of the 2026 ticket to expand their narrow majority in the state House and even flip the 30-year Republican control of the Pennsylvania Senate. -
A federal judge on Wednesday kept alive a proposed class action lawsuitbrought by a Lancaster man and others against Elon Musk for allegedly failing to pay for voter outreach completed ahead of the 2024 presidential election. -
Doug Mastriano, the Republican who lost to Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania’s 2022 gubernatorial race, said Wednesday that he will not seek the party’s nomination in 2026. -
Gov. Josh Shapiro on Monday called into a Pittsburgh morning radio show to say the seizure of Venezuela’s leader on the orders of President Donald Trump was “crazy” and indicative of a “bully’s weakness” that sets a poor precedent for the United States’ foreign adversaries. -
State lawmakers have reached a rare bipartisan consensus in favor of reestablishing the 24-hour minimum time period for local governments to notify the public of their planned votes and debates.
