News & Brews April 27, 2026
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Pa. leaders react to WHCD shooting
Following the shooting targeting President Trump and his cabinet members at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend, Pennsylvania’s statewide elected officials including Gov. Shapiro, Treasurer Stacy Garrity, Attorney General Dave Sunday, and U.S. Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick issued statements condemning political violence and praising the Secret Service. You can read the statements here. (Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board sought out the depths of its depravity and then dug even deeper to mock Trump and basically blame him for the violence.)
Pa. high court to rule on voter registration case
Spotlight PA reports that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is poised to rule on a case questioning whether “voter registration applications [should] be rejected if voters’ personal information doesn’t match government databases.” In 2018, the Pa. Department of State said that “based on state and federal law, counties can’t reject voter applications solely because the driver’s license number or last four digits of the voter’s Social Security number don’t match state or federal databases, as could happen if the voter makes a mistake when filling out the application.” But Potter County Commissioner Robert Rossman, who brought the case, “is arguing the department is misinterpreting the law.”
White introduces resolution celebrating EITC
Republican state Rep. Martina White (Philadelphia) has introduced a resolution that “would designate May 17, 2026, as ‘25th Anniversary of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program Day’ to commemorate the scholarship program’s role in pre-K-12 education.” Since their enactment in 2021, EITC scholarships have helped more than 600,000 Pennsylvania students gain a quality education and escape a government school that didn’t meet their needs. We’ll be watching to see which anti-school-choice lawmakers refuse to support this resolution.
Philly students ‘beg for working bathrooms, pest control’
While Democrat lawmakers in Pennsylvania continue to target educational opportunity and Gov. Shapiro refuses to commit to expanding school choice for Pennsylvania students, kids in one Philly school are begging for working bathrooms and an end to mice and cockroach infestations. Seriously. These are kids—literally without access in schools to clean restroom facilities. And instead of doing everything possible to give these kids a way out, union-beholden politicians are doubling down on trapping them in this filth. Not surprisingly, the Inquirer story completely ignores the fight to rescue these kids.
Not all businesses benefited from NFL draf
The Post-Gazette reports that despite record attendance at this year’s NFL draft in Pittsburgh, “many local small businesses said their sales were lower than ever.” One store owner “had paid to set up a vendor table outside Downtown’s Wyndham Hotel, hoping to capitalize on the foot traffic headed into Point State Park. That is, until the NFL set up barricades blocking people from the sidewalk where she and other vendors were located.” There was some additional criticism of how the city handled the event, focusing only on Point State Park and the North Shore rather than “finding ways to get people to explore more of the city.”