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Central Bucks plaintiffs helped elect a Democratic board. Now they demand to get paid.

The plaintiffs in a class action suit against the Central Bucks School District worked hard to unseat the Republicans in 2023. Now that they’ve done so, lead plaintiff Rebecca Cartee-Haring wants to know where their reward is. In an email obtained by Broad + Liberty, Cartee-Haring scolded the new board (which includes her husband, Rick Haring) for not holding up their end of the deal. Read more at Broad + Liberty. ([link removed])


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Is a carbon tax good for Pennsylvania families and businesses? Governor Shapiro seems to think so as he plows ahead with his predecessor’s decree to force the state into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, even without the consent of the legislature. Jon O’Brien wrote for us this week about the costs this carbon tax will impose on the people ([link removed]) of a state that never agreed to it.

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It's becoming a yearly tradition at Broad + Liberty to write about the mysteriously inflated expenses incurred by the Hero Thrill Show. The nonprofit uses an exciting exhibition to fund scholarships for the children of police and firefighters injured or killed on the job – a good and worthy cause! But their efforts are marred by financial irregularities they refuse to address ([link removed]) .

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And finally, from the editors this week, a question: Why has the Inquirer’s editorial board maintained resolute silence on the sexual harassment scandal that rocked the Shapiro administration ([link removed]) last year? Every other publication in the commonwealth had something to say about it – why can’t the largest newspaper in the state join them?

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We hear a lot of talk from our friends on the left about “voter suppression.” So it is strange, then, that Democrats are working so hard to keep the non-partisan No Labels group from being about to get a candidate on the ballot. And as former Attorney General William Barr wrote for the Wall Street Journal last week ([link removed]) , their efforts may even cross the line into

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