In late April, 2021, Gov. Tom Wolf abruptly withdrew all his pending nominations to lead key state agencies. In a recent op-ed, Commonwealth Partners President and CEO Matt Brouillette explored the implications of Wolf’s move, which canceled Senate confirmation hearings,…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Grove releases report on election hearings After several months of in-depth election hearings held by the House State Government Committee, Chairman Seth Grove (York County) yesterday released a 98-page…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Gov. Wolf signals no interest in voter ID When it comes to voter ID laws, Gov. Wolf's chief of staff recently flat out told Rep. Seth Grove, "[W]e're not…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! First federal lawsuit filed in relation to massive data breach Yesterday, WPXI investigative reporter Rick Earle broke the news that the first federal lawsuit has been filed against Department…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Wolf (again) targets charter school students Gee, watching Gov. Wolf these past months and years, you'd think he's adamantly opposed to giving kids the opportunity to attend schools that…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Most COVID restrictions to ease May 31, but... Yesterday the Wolf administration announced that COVID restrictions, except mandatory masks, would be lifted on May 31. The mask requirement is…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Wolf: Still no timetable for fully reopening After New Jersey announced yesterday that it will ditch many COVID restrictions, Gov. Wolf said he wants to fully reopen our state's…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! PA Supreme Court will pick redistricting chair After the Legislative Reapportionment Commission's four current members (the top two Republicans and top two Democrats in the General Assembly) deadlocked on choosing a…
CHANNELLOCK® President and CEO Jon DeArment, who is also on our board of Trustees at Commonwealth Partners, recently wrote an op-ed on how Gov. Wolf shutdown his business last year and why he’s urging Pennsylvanians to vote yes on two…
Op-Ed by Jon DeArment. The following commentary originally appeared in the Erie Times-News and has also appeared in multiple other media outlets in Pennsylvania. Over this past year, Pennsylvanians have shown amazing resilience. Faced with a global pandemic—that quickly became…