Political News
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Centre County Sees Highest Municipal Election Voter Turnout in 3 Decades
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Centre County’s voter turnout for Tuesday’s election was its highest for a municipal election in more than 30-years. Among 102,007 registered voters, at least 44,117 cast ballots in the Nov. 4 election for a turnout rate of 43.25%. That’s the highest in a non-presidential, non-congressional election year since 1993, when 43.59% of 60,116 registered voters…
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2025 Election Results: Centre County Municipal Councils and Boards of Supervisors
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Voters throughout Centre County cast their ballots for positions on municipal councils and boards of supervisors in Tuesday’s general election. Here’s a look at the results from elections in the Centre Region and contested races around the county as of 11:30 p.m.. Totals are unofficial until certified. In some municipalities, races were uncontested on the…
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2025 Election Results: Centre County School Boards
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Positions on all five Centre County school boards were on ballots for Tuesday’s general election, though only two saw competitive races. State College, Bald Eagle, Bellefonte, Penns Valley and Philipsburg-Osceola area school districts each had four board seats up for election this year. For Philipsburg-Osceola, two of the seats are in Centre County and two…
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Democrats Stella Tsai, Brandon Neuman Win Open Seats on Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth and Superior Courts
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Pennsylvania’s intermediate Commonwealth and Superior appellate courts play critical roles in the state’s justice system.
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Pa. Election Results: All 3 Democratic Supreme Court Justices Win Retention Races
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Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht survived an expensive election.
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How Pennsylvania Voters Reacted to Big National Spending on Judicial Retention
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Parties and interest groups spent millions promoting their judicial retention priorities. Did they break through?
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Judges Order Trump Administration to Fund SNAP Payments During Shutdown
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BOSTON (AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. The judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island gave the administration leeway on whether to fund the program partially or in full…
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All the Major Players in Pa.’s Budget Impasse Met in Person This Week. Will a Deal Follow?
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The talks are occurring as Pennsylvania’s budget approaches four months late, and counties and nonprofits increasingly sound the alarm about the impasse.
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Why Tracking Spending in This Year’s Critical Pa. Supreme Court Retention Races Is So Difficult
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Blame it on a mix of lagging reporting, weakly enforced rules and a campaign finance system that requires little transparency.
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Centre County Commissioners, State College School Board Call on Lawmakers to End State Budget Impasse
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Centre County’s Board of Commissioners and the State College Area School Board this week each urged lawmakers to pass a state budget as an impasse now reaching its fourth month takes a toll on local governments and agencies throughout the commonwealth. While Centre County has not had to cut services or furlough any of its…