News & Brews February 11, 2026
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Who’s donating to Shapiro, Garrity?
ABC27 combed through the recently filed campaign finance reports for both the Shapiro and Garrity gubernatorial campaigns and provided a run-down of some of the largest donors to each. While Garrity’s largest donation came from within Pennsylvania—from a Philly-area property management company—Shapiro’s biggest haul came from outside of Pa., specifically from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. This is not surprising, as since 2020, more than 55% of Shapiro’s donations have come from outside of Pennsylvania—including from the millionaire and billionaire class the Left pretends to hate.
Op-Ed: ‘School choice needs push from Trump’
Reverend Joshua C. Robertson, senior pastor of the Rock Church in Harrisburg and founder and CEO of Black Pastors United for Education, writes in the Wall Street Journal that Republicans in the Mississippi Senate recently killed a bill that “would have created education savings accounts for … 12,500 students, with small increases in subsequent years, to pay for private schools or home schooling.” This happened even after the state House had passed the bill. “About three-quarters of GOP primary voters in Mississippi backed the school-choice bill that just failed, according to a recent poll from the American Federation for Children. They may want to rally around new leaders who will actually fight for families and freedom.” Robertson writes that Trump “should call on Mississippi Republicans to reverse their foolish decision.” Or he would do well to endorse challengers who will support school choice.
Obamacare is a bust; here’s a better approach
Well over a decade into Obamacare, virtually no one is happy with America’s healthcare system. Indeed, as the Commonwealth Foundation’s Nathan Benefield writes in RealClear Pennsylvania, “Americans are still struggling with rising health care costs.” But, “The problem is not a lack of subsidies. The problem is a system built around the wrong incentives. Obamacare centralized decision-making in Washington, D.C., imposed one-size-fits-all mandates, and sent billions of taxpayer dollars to insurance companies instead of patients.” The solution is straightforward: “Genuine health care reform starts with a simple principle: subsidize individuals, not insurance companies. Health care dollars should follow the patient and give families control over how to spend their money.”
Where’d that $10M go??
Have you ever accidentally spent $10 million you didn’t have, and then, oops, you realized your mistake? I mean, I did that once. (Actually, no, I did not.) But anyway, if you said, “yes,” the School District of Lancaster knows exactly how you feel. The LNP reports that the district “unknowingly spent nearly $10 million it did not have during the 2024-25 school year, and administrators say they suspect an accounting error in calculating salaries and benefits was a major cause of the overspend.” Gosh, don’t you just hate when that happens?
Grand Jury won’t indict Deluzio, Houlahan for ‘illegal orders’ video
A Grand Jury has declined to indict several Democrat lawmakers who are also veterans, including U.S. Reps. Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan of Pa., for the video message they recorded telling service members to disobey illegal orders. The AP reports, “It wasn’t immediately clear whether prosecutors had sought indictments against all six lawmakers or what charge or charges prosecutors attempted to bring…. Grand jury rejections are extraordinarily unusual, but have happened repeatedly in recent months in Washington.”