Legislature
Senate panel explores alternatives to tolling 9 deteriorating Pa. bridges – pennlive.com
Pa. lawmakers hold hearing on food, farming inflation (abc27.com)
Coronavirus – COVID-19
Study: Pfizer COVID pill showed no benefit in younger adults | Coronavirus | tribdem.com
Business/Jobs
MontcoWorks to hold fall job fair at Plymouth Meeting Mall (dailylocal.com)
WISSMAN: PA Prospers With a Strong Energy Economy – DV Journal (delawarevalleyjournal.com)
Workplace fatalities spike in central PA; OSHA urges prevention (ydr.com)
Things are unequivocally great for the American worker | Opinion (inquirer.com)
Crime/Punishment
Exclusive: Upper Darby underreporting homicides to state crime database (broadandliberty.com)
Pa. police can pull you over for your license plate frame, court rules | WITF
Education
3 things to know about Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan : NPR
Student loan forgiveness could help more than 40 million – Daily Local
President Biden’s student loan forgiveness is cause for celebration | Opinion (inquirer.com)
Who gets student loan forgiveness? Relief prompts joy, angst | WITF
As students go back to school, many face a lunch bill for the first time in 2 years : NPR
Dauphin County school district investigates hazing, cancels high school football season | WITF
Northwest Pennsylvania Innovation Beehive Network adds new member (goerie.com)
Radnor school board approves updates to its health and safety plan – Delco Times
Doubt over Bucks County COVID guidelines continue amid metadata (buckscountycouriertimes.com)
Op-Ed: College-bound students, families have to know how to get help (buckscountycouriertimes.com)
Letter: PA should repeal Act 38, focus on school bus rider safety (buckscountycouriertimes.com)
Lehigh Valley school districts unveil new bus safety cameras – The Morning Call (mcall.com)
Elections/Politics
State’s poll worker recruitment effort drew 1,100 last week (abc27.com)
Pa. midterm election: Why Democrats think 2022 is best chance to win state House (inquirer.com)
Seth Higgins: Fetterman doesn’t get rural healthcare (broadandliberty.com)
Dr. Mehmet Oz’s Senate bid in Pennsylvania could be a Muslim first but is ‘complicated’ | WITF
Fetterman, Shapiro enjoying comfortable leads in latest F&M polls – pennlive.com
Luzerne County Election Bureau fighting for new ballot sorting machine | Times Leader
Berks County complies with court order to count undated mail ballots (readingeagle.com)
Many Pennsylvania voters remain skeptical of 2020 election results, poll finds (readingeagle.com)
Environment
Pace of Climate Change Sends Economists Back to Drawing Board – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Kim Kardashian, Kevin Hart and Dwyane Wade are accused of water waste : NPR
Transportation
Four Chester County bridges damaged by Ida to be repaired – Daily Local
How to pay for Pennsylvania’s bridges? An open question | Pennsylvania | thecentersquare.com
PennDOT to fix Oxford Valley Road and Lincoln Highway intersections (buckscountycouriertimes.com)
Health
West Chester officials propose resolution on abortion issue – Daily Local
UPMC profits, investment income drop in 1st half of the year | TribLIVE.com
State News
Pa.’s abortion clinic desert, Grove’s 2020 concession, and nursing home strikes · Spotlight PA
Rep. Perry sues DOJ in effort to block access to his phone (abc27.com)
Toomey, Casey among bipartisan group urging rescue of Pa. man incarcerated in Russia (abc27.com)
Pennsylvania’s feel good run through the Little League World Series finally ends | WITF
Bonus Pa. property tax and rent rebate payments starting to arrive this week – pennlive.com
National News
4 takeaways from Tuesday’s’ primaries in New York and Florida : Live Coverage: 2022 Primaries : NPR
How a New Jersey city achieved 0 traffic deaths in 4 years : NPR
Uvalde’s school police chief was fired over the botched response to the shooting : NPR
Hardly any Native American vets have applied for a VA program for home loans. : NPR
Kobe Bryant’s widow awarded $16M over photos of bodies after helicopter crash – pennlive.com
U.S. set to ship record crude into 2023 as deepens | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Amazon to shut down its telehealth offering | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Local News
Heralding a grand opening for Matzah Balls Jewish Deli | The Bucks County Herald
New Hope Borough passes short-term rental ordinance | The Bucks County Herald
Montco commissioners adopt $161M pandemic recovery plan (mainlinemedianews.com)
Montco commissioners pressed to find space for homeless (mainlinemedianews.com)
Chester’s new chief operating officer is introduced (delcotimes.com)
Scranton offering ARPA grants to address community wellness | News | thetimes-tribune.com
Pitt
Pa.’s 1st space museum to open on Pittsburgh’s North Side | TribLIVE.com
Philly
Philadelphia city initiative connects thousands to free internet | Local News | phillytrib.com
Boarding house bans didn’t achieve their goal. End them. | Editorial (inquirer.com)
Washington
Biden announces nearly $3B in new military aid for Ukraine – Daily Local
DOJ releases a Mueller-era memo to Barr on the decision to not prosecute Trump : NPR