News & Brews December 15, 2025
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Pa. has fewest new laws in a decade Spotlight PA reports that Pennsylvania “could end the year with the lowest number of new laws in at least a decade.”…
News & Brews December 12, 2025
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Should state pay for budget impasse costs? The Post-Gazette reports that some county and school board interest groups would like the state to reimburse counties for money lost during…
News & Brews December 11, 2025
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Blue states have higher electricity prices We’ve all heard (and voiced!) the concerns recently about rising electricity prices. In fact, as the Institute for Energy Research (IER) notes, “A…
News & Brews December 10, 2025
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Senate committee subpoenas info on Shapiro’s security upgrades Yesterday, the Pa. Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee issued two subpoenas seeking information on “the unprecedented expenditure of $1 million on Gov.…
News & Brews December 9, 2025
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! ‘Josh Shapiro and the politics of faith’ The Jewish Insider analyzed Gov. Shapiro’s recent interviews with The Atlantic and The New Yorker from the perspective of how Shapiro views and…
News & Brews December 8, 2025
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! You've got (no) mail? Well this is a fine kettle of fish. The Inquirer reports that “an unknown amount of mail from Pennsylvania state agencies to residents has gone…
Why ‘No’ Lost on Election Day
The following op-ed by Commonwealth Partners President and CEO Matt Brouillette originally appeared at RealClear Pennsylvania. In 2023, after Republicans’ defeat in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race, I wrote, “The Left has done a stellar job convincing deep-pocketed national donors and special…
Op-Ed: Pennsylvania has a big election, too
The following op-ed by Commonwealth Partners President and CEO Matthew J. Brouillette was originally published in The Wall Street Journal on October 20, 2025. Before Texas Republicans raised redistricting ire and before California Democrats retaliated, Pennsylvania wrote the book on how…
News & Brews December 5, 2025
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! New info on taxpayer-funded security upgrades to Shapiro’s private home Following a Right-to-Know request, Spotlight PA has received new details on the more than $1 million in taxpayer-funded security…
News & Brews December 4, 2025
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Behind Gov. Josh Shapiro's carefully crafted persona The Atlantic has an insightful and telling long-form story on Gov. Josh Shapiro’s public persona—which covers up a politician who tries to…