With the legislature out for a week, we take a turn to focus on the Pittsburgh region prior to the 2020 Election. A lot has happened in Pittsburgh over the last year, with COVID-19 shuttering businesses, major political races grabbed the spotlight, and a summer of protests echoed around downtown. Now, with just a few […]

A lot has happened in the past week! President Trump contracted COVID-19, sending him to Walter Reed Medical Center for multiple days. As a result, the polling in the Presidential race has since moved towards former Vice President Joe Biden. Senator Pat Toomey announced that he would not seek re-election to his Senate seat, nor […]

This week on Journalists Roundtable, we continue to examine the deadlock in Harrisburg. No deal on pressing electoral issues seems near, as the issue continues its journey to the Supreme Court. The fallout from court cases involving mail-in ballot counts and the Governor’s spring shutdown continues to have both Democrats and Republicans hesitant to do […]

This week on Journalists Roundtable, we find that the PA Supreme Court decision last week has changed the calculus in Harrisburg. What happened, and what implications are there? The PA Senate wraps up another week, albeit an abbreviated one. What was accomplished in Harrisburg this week? The 2020 Election continues, and there are persistent questions […]

Fall is here, and that is usually a good sign that both the PA legislature is back in session and that Journalists Roundtable is back on the air. The first episode back from our summer hiatus will look at what work the state House has accomplished over the past several weeks. The Wolf administration was […]

Protests continue across the state, and show no real signs of dying down. There have been strong movements in cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and they have begun to win concessions from police departments. Meanwhile, the country continues to come face to face with its racism problem. Here to discuss these issues, and more, are: […]

Pennsylvania continues to be rocked by protests following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis, MN police officer. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette controversially removed two black journalists from coverage of the protests. Calls for change have found their way to the Pennsylvania legislature, as House Democrats seized the rostrum to demand action. The Pennsylvania House […]

Another Election Day has come and gone in the Commonwealth. This one was one for the record books, as officials braced for an unprecedented confluence of issues. Between new voting machines, a no-excuse mail-in option, a pandemic, and protests around the state, local elections officials had plenty on their plates. While we still are waiting […]

Pennsylvania returned from Memorial Day weekend to discover that the state legislature has developed a temporary budget. The plan, if it succeeds, would be to fund the budget at current levels until the end of November. At that point, another budget would need to be crafted to fund the rest of the fiscal year. As […]

Pennsylvania continues to reopen the state, with an additional 12 states moving to the Governor’s ‘yellow’ phase. The momentum for reopening seems to be steady, with cases in the state continuing to drop. Legislative Republicans have seen some small wins as well, with the Governor allowing for real estate transactions to continue. Tonight’s host is […]