Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s electoral landslide wasn’t the only big win Tuesday for the left in Pennsylvania. Across the state, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto lost his bid for a third term after coming under intense criticism last year for the city’s handling of Black Lives Matter protests. State Rep. Ed Gainey seized on progressives’ growing discontent with the mayor and .
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In this file photo from Nov. 19, 2019, the dome of the Pennsylvania Capitol is visible through the trees in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The richest man in Pennsylvania is poised to spend millions of dollars influencing upcoming elections all while trying to keep his name away from the political spotlight.
Montgomery County billionaire Jeff Yass, a professional gambler turned powerful Wall Street trader, has long been a major donor to conservative causes in Pennsylvania. He’s particularly well known for putting tens of millions of dollars into the commonwealth’s school choice movement.
With Pennsylvania gearing up to redraw its congressional districts, choose a new Supreme Court justice in the fall, and elect a U.S. Senator and a governor next year along with a slew of congressional and state House and Senate races Yass has poured $10.5 million of his own money into his political action committee, Students First, over the past six months, before trans
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On May 4, Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval joined Andrew Zitcer, PhD, program director for Drexel University’s graduate program in urban strategy, in discussion for an ongoing event series, “Urban Strategy in the Present Tense,” sponsored by the Lindy Institute of Urban Innovation. This virtual Q&A-style event covered Saval’s career path from his time as an author and editor to his successful run for his current senate seat.
The series tackles social, political, environmental and economic problems in an ever-expanding and dynamic world with some of the most profound and informative speakers, and dovetails with the Lindy Institute’s mission to promote urban innovation and leadership.
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Dr. Shubha Varma and her husband perform a surgery together on a medical mission in the Dominican Republic. (Courtesy of Dr. Shubha Varma)
Lakshmi Iyer feels like she’s caught between two worlds. The 45-year-old financial service worker lives in Exton with her family, and has been watching with horror as COVID-19 cases have surged in her home country of India. Her Twitter feed is full of people back home begging for oxygen, searching for open hospital beds, or trying to secure remdesivir, Theraflu or other treatment drugs in short supply for sick loved ones. Entire families she knows are testing positive, including her in-laws. Eight people in her extended circle have died, she said.
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