Katie Meyer

The plan, introduced Thursday on behalf of Council President Darrell L. Clarke, makes few significant changes to the existing district lines.

“There’s a lot that could still go wrong,” said one top GOP lawmaker, adding that the odds of the legislature passing a map are, “50 – 50, maybe.”

The rhetoric among Pennsylvania’s GOP candidates for Senate and governor has been the same: short on provable facts, long on inflammatory rhetoric.

It’s a vision of election overload that would undercut Pennsylvania’s proportional, local representation in Washington, D.C.

The state House is planning to pass a Republican-drawn draft by Wednesday. Gov. Wolf has signaled he’d veto that version. Courts seem poised to intervene.

The rally in Philadelphia was one of about 150 around the country, organized by a coalition of national groups.

The event delved into such topics as school choice, energy production, election conspiracies, and how to make homemade backyard biodiesel.

A Bucks County school district has instructed teachers not to “wade into” discussions with students about the insurrection “due to the current polarization.”

He would be Pennsylvania’s first Black lieutenant governor — and the highest-ranking Black public official in Pennsylvania history.

Politically moderate, relatively affluent, Philadelphia-bordering Bucks County had more arrests than any other county in the state, putting it top 10 nationally.

It’s an enormous loss, mostly of young Black men. Some Philly antiviolence activists point to new efforts to stop the shooting block by block as a sign of hope.

Although the amendment was struck down by the courts, questions of how to balance rights for alleged victims and perpetrators of crimes could resurface.