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From this article: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/democrat-trifecta-harrisburg-senate-shapiro-20261014.html

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Having given up any hope of unseating Gov. Josh Shapiro and with little chance of reclaiming the state House, Pennsylvania Republicans have launched an all-out war to save their majority in the state Senate—and prevent Democrats from taking full control of state government for the first time since 1994.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, citing data from AdImpact, reported Wednesday that Republicans have spent more than $15 million on TV and streaming ads, both to protect four vulnerable incumbents in the eastern part of the state and to target Democratic Sen. James Malone.

Democrats, likewise, have deployed more than $12 million to unseat that quartet of Republicans and help Malone, who is defending the conservative Lancaster County seat he flipped last year in a shocking special election victory.

Only half of the 50-member chamber is up each election cycle, so both parties will need to wait until 2028 to target other competitive districts.

Democrats, who aren’t at serious risk of losing any of their other seats this year, need to win three of those five races to turn what’s now a 27-23 Republican majority into a 25-25 deadlock. Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, Shapiro’s running mate in next month’s election, would then be able to use his tie-breaking vote to support his party on procedural matters, such as choosing the chamber’s leader and deciding when bills receive a vote....

This story came to light because Rep. Scott Perry incorrectly stated on the debate stage that forged ballots were turned in, but Dauphin County discovered and addressed the problem before ballots were distributed.

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We took a trip to the northern part of the state today to see fall foliage and happened upon these two beautiful animals. Truly an awesome sight

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With homeless soaring along with the cost of living, they HAD to increase property tax by 17 %. One bedroom efficiencies are already $1,100/mo. Guess where landlords are going to look for this extra 17 % nobody has? May as well just put that extra % hike into law enforcement because squeezing everyone like this is going to lead to even more homelessness, crime. Speaking of crime, raising taxes 17 % while keeping minimum wage low and 2 raises is criminal. This isn’t how life is supposed to be. Not in America.

Pennsylvania promises legal help to those who say they were unfairly convicted of a crime. Yet, some incarcerated people are left waiting years for their lawyers to act.  

The Inquirer and ProPublica previously reported that Pa. lets lawyers resolve cases quickly using a practice that is discouraged in several states: filing “no-merit” letters, also known as Finley letters, urging the judges to reject their clients’ handwritten or typed claims. In Philadelphia, dozens who had received such letters later had their convictions or sentences overturned based on issues their lawyers had rejected or overlooked. 

But the problems with the system go deeper than that: The state’s loose rules and its failure to fund post-conviction work have made the type of breakdown one man encountered a recurring feature of this system. 

Nolan O’Neal said he spent years trying to convince the attorney assigned to handle his claim under Pa.’s Post-Conviction Relief Act to track down evidence that could clear him of a shooting. After nine years and 41 extensions on the case, the attorney filed a two-page petition addressing just one of the many issues O’Neal had wanted him to raise. 

“It is a daunting and exhausting task to navigate this legal process and be heard,” O’Neal said in an interview. “We at times even have to fight the attorneys who are supposed to represent us.”

By filing public records requests with courts serving all 67 Pennsylvania counties and analyzing a decade of court dockets, a Philadelphia Inquirer and ProPublica investigation found that the system Pennsylvania set up to protect the right to counsel instead allows, or even encourages, shoddy representation.

Read more about what both news organizations found.

Attorney Scott Galloway, who represented O’Neal, said that his ethical obligation to confidentiality prevented him from commenting on the case. Judge George A. Pagano, who granted Galloway the extensions on the case, also declined to comment.