Gov. Shapiro

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal includes $10 million for a Pennsylvania fund that assists financially distressed local governments.

The Board of Pardons meets in public but does not publish records of its commutation votes. Spotlight PA is making that data available for the first time.

The governor’s latest budget pitch would send an additional $290 million to the state’s public transit agencies, invest more in a new student-teacher stipend, and more.

The fact that Unbound Academy has a viable path toward approval shows that Pennsylvania needs to radically rethink its charter school law, critics say.

Pennsylvania’s governor wants federal regulators to force the state’s power grid to lower prices before a projected cost spike this summer.

Pennsylvania’s governor traveled extensively as a Democratic surrogate in 2024, spending money on consultants, private flights, ritzy hotels, and more.

Gov. Josh Shapiro has approved about half of the clemency applications recommended to him by the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons in his first two years.

A union-backed rewrite by the Shapiro admin would subsidize energy production as well as lower the bar for investment.

The policy heightened fears among civil rights and pro-Palestinian groups that employees who express opinions that differ from Shapiro’s stance on the war could be unfairly punished.

A newly passed bill allows Pennsylvania to return unclaimed funds to a person without a claim. The law was originally proposed by state Treasurer Stacy Garrity last year.