June 23, 2026
State Sen. Lindsey M. Williams (D-Allegheny) announced that she will introduce a resolution urging Congress to prohibit insider stock trading and betting in prediction markets for federal public officials. “For people to trust their elected officials, they have to...
April 15, 2026
A county in southeastern Pennsylvania has banned its poll workers from using prediction markets to bet on elections. The board of elections in Delaware County, outside of Philadelphia, recently approved a resolution that amended the oath poll workers take ahead of the...
March 24, 2026
Tiffany Mantzouridis sat in the balcony of the state House chamber Monday, overwhelmed by emotion as legislators unanimously approved a bill to protect pet owners from what they called glaring oversights in cremation services. The Irwin resident is the whistleblower...
March 20, 2026
HARRISBURG – Allegheny County Sen. Lindsey Williams is introducing legislation that will require political advertisements to disclose if artificial intelligence was used in their creation. Williams says voters deserve to know when images and videos that they are...
March 19, 2026
Pennsylvania lawmakers and state civil rights officials are racing to fill a hole left by the U.S. Department of Education after a wave of layoffs and regional office closures last year. Families in districts like Norwin say federal monitoring of school civil rights...
March 19, 2026
When Norwin School District, about 40 minutes east of Pittsburgh, signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in September 2024, the district agreed to take several actions to fix what the department called a “racially...
March 18, 2026
HARRISBURG, Pa. — In an election year, attack ads are nothing new. What is new, however, are ads depicting candidates using artificial intelligence. The use of AI in political campaigns is drawing backlash, and in Pennsylvania, it’s now drawing a proposal to scale it...
March 18, 2026
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Campaigns frequently exaggerate political ads, but as Pennsylvania heads into election season, voters might not even know if what they’re watching even happened at all. In artificial intelligence’s quest to touch all aspects of society, it...
March 18, 2026
March 14, 2026
PENNSYLVANIA (WTAJ) — A Pennsylvania Senator is looking to ban insider stock trading and participation in prediction markets. “Public officials should not be able to make money off non-public information provided to them in service of their elected position,” Sen....
March 5, 2026
WASHINGTON — In their mostly white school district, Black students routinely heard racial slurs. White classmates hurled insults like “slave,” “monkey” or worse. It often went unpunished. Parents made those claims in a 2024 complaint asking the...
February 23, 2026
HARRISBURG — For more than two decades, state lawmakers from both parties have pushed for a new law to crack down on fraudulent government spending and encourage whistleblowers to come forward. Each time, powerful health care and business interests stunted those...
February 14, 2026
A Valentine’s Day rally drew about 200 demonstrators to Springdale, where speakers decried the immigration arrest of Randy Cordova Flores and called for a review of the borough’s relationship with immigration authorities. But while Cordova Flores’ supporters spoke...
February 12, 2026
Though local officials have mostly remained silent,the Alle-Kiski Valley’s lawmakers are seeking more details after a traffic stop in Springdale ended with a local father in ICE custody on Tuesday. Randy Cordova-Flores, 36, remains in custody at Northern Regional...
February 11, 2026
Transformation of the Sharpsburg riverfront continues to chug along, with officials shoring up streetscape plans expected to improve safety and access to the site. Councilman Roman Mason believes work near the 19th Street entrance of the proposed Allegheny Shores...
January 22, 2026
State Sen. Nick Pisciottano said the state’s framework for pet cremation oversight is “a little like the Wild West.” The legislator, whose district includes Plum, Monroeville and parts of the Mon Valley, proposed Senate Bill 950 to strengthen consumer protection and...
January 31, 2023
(Harrisburg, PA) January 31, 2023 — Senator Lindsey M. Williams (D-Allegheny) and Senator Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York) announced today that they plan to reintroduce the Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Act for Taxpayer Accountability (CFPA) this session. This...
December 9, 2022
HARRISBURG, December 9, 2022 – State Senator Katie Muth (D- Berks/Chester/Montgomery), Chair of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, and state Senator Lindsey Williams (D-Allegheny) hosted a virtual roundtable discussion Wednesday night on the operating rules of...
March 31, 2022
Pittsburgh, Pa. − March 31, 2022 − Today, Senator Lindsey M. Williams sent a letter to Auditor General Timothy DeFoor and Department of Education Secretary Noe Ortega in response to last week’s announcement by the Auditor General that he will be closing the Bureau of...
September 22, 2021
Harrisburg, Pa. − September 22, 2021 − Senators Lindsey M. Williams (D-Allegheny), Katie Muth (D-Chester, Montgomery, and Berks), Amanda M. Cappelletti (D-Montgomery and Delaware), John Kane (D-Chester and Delaware), Tim Kearney (D-Chester and Delaware), and Judy...
August 9, 2021
Pittsburgh, Pa. − August 9, 2021 − Today, Senator Lindsey M. Williams introduced legislation that would require that all legislative expenses be published online in an easily searchable format. This legislation is part of Senator Williams’ continued push for greater...
June 10, 2021
The jaded may observe that it almost makes too much sense for Harrisburg: State legislation is being readied that would require lawmakers to disclose online their spending of public dollars. Following reports by Spotlight PA and The Caucus, there appears to be some...
March 17, 2021
March 2, 2021
Harrisburg, PA − March 2, 2021 − Today, on the 158th anniversary of President Lincoln signing the Federal False Claims Act into law, Senator Lindsey M. Williams (D-Allegheny) and Senator Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York) announced that they plan to introduce the...
January 29, 2021
Harrisburg, Pa. −January 29, 2021 − Today, Senator Lindsey M. Williams (D-Allegheny), Senator Katie Muth (D-Chester, Montgomery, Berks), and members of the Democratic caucus released a package of Senate Operating Rules Reform co-sponsorship memos. These memos outline...
