Originally aired: January 15, 2026
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- 2025 Year in Review
- Trucking Industry Faces Policy Challenges
- Pennsylvania Budget Analysis
- General Election 2025 Results
- Fall 2025 Keystone Business Climate Survey
- State Budget Stalemate Passes 100 Day Mark
- Reliability of the PJM Power Grid
- Who is to Blame for State Budget Stalemate?
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- State Budget Stalemate Continues
- The Road to Pennsylvania’s Energy & AI Future
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- PA Misses State Budget Deadline – Again
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- School Choice, RGGI Updates
- Watchdogs Bark Warning Over State Budget
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- Penn State May Close Some Branch Campuses
- PA Budget Needs the “DOGE” Treatment
- Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Education Freedom
- Update on Nippon/U.S. Steel Deal & State Budget Preview
- A Capitol Watch Look at 2025
- 2024: The Year in Review
- PA Faces Transportation Funding Challenges
- An Agenda for the New Legislative Session
- 2024 General Election Results
- Overview of State Senate and State House Races
- ‘Common Ground’ Poll Results
- TMI Nuclear Plant Gets New Life
- Keeping U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh
- Impact of Self-Driving Trucks
- Pennsylvania Ranks 14th in Nation for Government Regulations
- Independent Fiscal Offices Warns PA About to Go Broke
- State Budget Winners & Losers
- State Budget Deadline Missed – Again
- Education Freedom Center of State Budget Battle
- A Look at State Budget Issues
- Pennsylvania’s Energy Future
- PA Senate Passes Personal Income Tax Rate Cut
- Primary Election Results and Analysis
- Commonwealth Foundation Common Ground Poll
- Commonwealth Foundation Poll on Energy Issues
- Shapiro Proposes Tax on Energy Producers, Manufacturers
- Shapiro Overstates Projected Revenue By $10 Billion
- PA Budget Process Gets Underway
- Shapiro Preps Budget Address
- Basic Education Funding Commission Report
- PA House Democrats Adjourn Until Late March
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- Shapiro’s Press Club Blame Game
- Election 2023 Results & Analysis
- Shapiro’s Lack of Transparency
- State House Budget Chicanery
- Trucking Industry Issues
- Unfinished State Budget