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Pa. voter rights and what to know about intimidation at the polls
State officials are encouraging Pennsylvania voters heading to the polls on Nov. 3 to know their rights while casting their ballot. Voters have the right to vote without being harassed or intimidated, Al Schmidt, secretary of state, explained during a pre-election press briefing Oct. 27. What is voter intimidation?
An Outdoorsman’s Journal
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Are police allowed at Pennsylvania polling places on Election Day?
If the federal government sends immigration enforcement agents to polling places in Pennsylvania on Election Day, they would be violating state and federal laws along with the state's election code. While speculation swirls around what President Donald Trump might try to do to influence the outcome of the midterm elections on Nov. 3, state officials are reminding voters of restrictions around law enforcement officers at polls.
Can you carry a gun at Pennsylvania polls? It depends where you vote
Follow Can you carry a gun at Pennsylvania polls? It depends where you vote Mark Walters, USA TODAY NETWORK Thu, October 29, 2026 at 5:13 AM EDT Are Pennsylvania voters allowed to carry guns to the polls on Election Day? The short answer is yes, although the opportunity to do it hinges on each polling place's location. Where are guns not allowed?
An Outdoorsman’s Journal
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Pa. House tells blaring streaming ads to pipe down
Ever feel the need to turn down the volume when advertisements interrupt your streaming music and shows? Perhaps this peeve becomes especially noticeable during election season, when candidates flood the airwaves to "approve this message." The change in loudness you are noticing is no coincidence. Advertisers crank up the volume on streaming platforms louder than the show or music users are enjoying, but that could soon change in Pennsylvania. How could this streaming ad volume change?
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An Outdoorsman’s Journal
Front to back: Pike, Joey Snodie and Joey Dushek with a limit of ducks harvested on the Mississippi River near Ferryville. Front to back: Pike, Joey Snodie and Joey Dushek with a limit of ducks harvested on the Mississippi River near Ferryville. Mississippi Duck Hunt 2026 Hello Friends, Fifty-five duck seasons ago I camped on an island on the Mississippi River near Ferryville with my brothers Mike and Tom and my dad, the...
Skill games become illegal in Pa. Oct. 14. Here's what happens next.
Follow Skill games become illegal in Pa. Oct. 14. Here's what happens next. Mark Walters, USA TODAY NETWORK Updated Mon, October 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM EDT Skill games will be illegal in Pennsylvania Oct. 14 after the state Supreme Court on Oct. 9 denied several lawmakers' request for an extension to pass a law regulating the machines popular in social clubs, bars, restaurants and gas stations. Here's what that will mean across the state.
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What to know about Pennsylvania's new law regulating vapes, e-cigs
Selling vapes and e-cigarettes prohibited in Pennsylvania will warrant prosecution after Oct. 19, when the Attorney General's office can start enforcing the law against the products not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Attorney General Dave Sunday advised merchants selling the electronic nicotine delivery systems, or ENDS, to review the state’s list of approved products. Why is this happening?
An Outdoorsman’s Journal: Back country duck hunt
Hello friends, Last Spring I was backpacking in northern Landglade County when I came through an area that had a lot of wetlands and in those wetlands were lots of waterfowl. I recently made the decision to hunt that area with my golden retriever, Red, for the northern Wisconsin duck hunting opener and had quite the adventure. High 67, low 40 My memory was a bit fuzzy on my destination, which was about two miles from my truck.
4 takeaways from the Shapiro-Garrity governor debate
Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and Republican state Treasurer Stacy Garrity held their only gubernatorial debate on Oct. 7. • The candidates discussed their differing views on data centers, with Garrity proposing a moratorium and Shapiro touting new regulations. • Shapiro and Garrity also disagreed on how to handle skill games, with Shapiro favoring a 52% tax and Garrity a flat monthly fee. HARRISBURG ― Pennsylvania’s only gubernatorial debate between Democratic Gov.
Capitol rally pushes Pennsylvania data center moratorium
Oct. 7, 2026, 8:35 a.m. ET Nearly 100 people rallied at the Pennsylvania Capitol to protest data center development. Proponents are pushing for a three-year moratorium on building new data centers. Activists are drawing parallels between the data center boom and the state's experience with the fracking industry. HARRISBURG ― Pleas to stop data center development reverberated inside the Pennsylvania Capitol rotunda Tuesday, Oct.
Pa. lawmakers near deadline without skill games deal
Skill games regulation in Pennsylvania remains elusive as legislators face missing their deadline to create guidelines for the gambling machines that operate like slots but have no oversight. A Pennsylvania Supreme Court order in June gave the Legislature until Oct. 13 to pass a law surrounding the unregulated machines popular in social clubs, bars, restaurants and gas stations.
An Outdoorsman’s Journal
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An Outdoorsman’s Journal: Back country bow hunt
Hello friends, I just returned home from a 5-day camping and bow hunting trip at the Tiffany Bottoms which is almost 13,000 acres of Chippewa River surrounded by floodplain forest and it runs from Durand to Nelson. I travel for my hunts by canoe and my main goal is always met and that is a wilderness escape with my 2nd goal making some fresh meat in the form of a whitetail deer. High 66, low 42 I am now solidly into the transition from summer camping and fishing to camping and hunting.
How Stacy Garrity would tackle Pennsylvania's housing shortage
The next governor of Pennsylvania will have to address a housing shortage that has reached crisis levels. It is challenging to find a home and, if found, difficult to afford one. More: Pennsylvania home sale prices rise, deepening affordability challenges Pennsylvania needs 450,000 new housing units by 2035, officials have said. At current building rates, the state is expected to miss that by nearly 185,000 homes.
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Red and her pup River. River was the only pup born and when that happens, it is called a singleton. Red and her pup River. River was the only pup born and when that happens, it is called a singleton. Back Country Bow Hunt Hello Friends, I just returned home from a 5-day camping and bow hunting trip at the Tiffany Bottoms which is almost 13,000 acres of Chippewa River surrounded by ...
What Pennsylvania mail voters need to know before November
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked a U.S. Postal Service rule that would have tightened mail ballot requirements. Pennsylvania's Secretary of State confirmed that mail ballot procedures have not changed since the May primary. Legal battles continue over whether to count mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect dates on the envelope. Mail ballot procedures in Pennsylvania have not changed since the May primary, Secretary of State Al Schmidt said during a September pre-election press briefing.
What Pennsylvania mail voters need to know before November
Mail ballot procedures in Pennsylvania have not changed since the May primary, Secretary of State Al Schmidt said during a September pre-election press briefing. Schmidt’s remarks came Sept. 15, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to let the U.S. Postal Service tighten the use of mail ballots ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, USA TODAY reported. Opinion: I monitored voting in 2020, 2024. Our elections aren't being stolen. What was at stake?
An Outdoorsman’s Journal
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An Outdoorsman’s Journal: Flater's Resort and the black bear hunt
Hello friends, Where the Chippewa and Flambeau rivers meet in Rusk County is Flater's Resort and it has been there since 1938. Flater's Resort has been owned by the Flater family since the start with Harry and Mary Flater, followed by Harold, Tubby, and Joann Flater, and is currently operated by Joe Flater, who along with his partner Angie Mincoff run what I consider a beautiful place to hang your hat and also one of the best taverns that I have ever known.
An Outdoorsman’s Journal
The late Harold “Tubby” Flater and his son Musky Joe Flater kept the Flater’s Resort tradition going since 1953 and Tubby’s parents did since 1938. The late Harold “Tubby” Flater and his son Musky Joe Flater kept the Flater’s Resort tradition going since 1953 and Tubby’s parents did since 1938. Flater’s Resort/Black Bear Hunt Hello Friends, Where the Chippewa and Flambeau rivers meet in Rusk County is Flater’s Resort and it has been there since 1938. It has been owned by ...
An Outdoorsman’s Journal
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An Outdoorsman’s Journal: Operation Musky was a barrel of laughs
Hello friends, From 1981 to ‘87 I did a six year enlistment in the Wisconsin Air National Guard with the 115th Tactical Fighter Wing out of Madison. I was a jammer driver on a three-man weapons loading crew. At first, it was OA/37s and then A10s. I got out to attempt to canoe up the Mississippi River when my enlistment ended in ‘87 and basically stayed outside and on adventures since then. For the last 26 years I have been a part of what we call Operation Musky.
Pa. State Police advise businesses to prepare skill games for removal
With the deadline to regulate skill games across the state approaching next month, Pennsylvania State Police advised establishments with the devices to discuss removing them with distributors or vendors who own the machines, according to a news release. “Simply powering off an otherwise operable machine or unplugging them is not sufficient to comply with the law,” the release states.
Pa. State Police advise businesses to prepare skill games for removal Original
Sept. 16, 2026, 5:15 a.m. ET The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that skill games are illegal slot machines, giving the legislature until Oct. 13 to regulate them. If no new legislation is passed, operating skill games will be a criminal offense starting Oct. 14. Legislators are considering various proposals to regulate and tax the estimated 70,000 skill games across the state.
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25 years later, 4 state House speakers recall 9/11
PHILADELPHIA ― Melissa Minor-Brown will never forget what she was doing the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The current Delaware state House speaker was on the phone with her father, who was working on Wall Street, right around the corner from the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, when the second airplane crashed into the South Tower shortly after 9 a.m. Because of the trauma, she said, her father has not gone to work since that day.
25 years later, 4 state House speakers recall 9/11 Original
PHILADELPHIA ― Melissa Minor-Brown will never forget what she was doing the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The current Delaware state House speaker was on the phone with her father, who was working on Wall Street, right around the corner from the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, when the second airplane crashed into the South Tower shortly after 9 a.m. Because of the trauma, she said, her father has not gone to work since that day.
Pa.'s McClinton joins Black state speakers on voting rights
PHILADELPHIA ― States do not control the president or federal immigration officers, but their legislatures still have power, Joanna McClinton told people gathered inside Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Thursday, Sept. 10. McClinton, the first female speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and its second Black speaker since the 1970s, participated on a panel with three other Black state House speakers hailing from Delaware, Illinois and New York.
Pa.'s McClinton joins Black state speakers on voting rights Original
Sept. 10, 2026, 3:22 p.m. ET Four Black state House speakers gathered in Philadelphia to discuss states' roles in protecting rights. The speakers discussed legislative efforts to protect voting rights and counter voter intimidation tactics. Passing protective legislation is difficult without enough votes in state legislatures, some speakers noted.
Pa.'s McClinton joins Black state speakers on voting rights
Sept. 10, 2026, 3:22 p.m. ET Four Black state House speakers gathered in Philadelphia to discuss states' roles in protecting rights. The speakers discussed legislative efforts to protect voting rights and counter voter intimidation tactics. Passing protective legislation is difficult without enough votes in state legislatures, some speakers noted.
See inside Mother Bethel AME Church during democracy forum Original
Mark Walters Sept. 10, 2026, 3:17 p.m. ET A Pennsylvania historical marker denotes the history of Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia on Sept. 10, 2026. The church is on land bought by Richard Allen and is the oldest piece of real estate continuously owned by African Americans in the United States.
In U.S. birthplace, House members reflect on Pennsylvania's role today Original
Sept. 10, 2026, 9:06 a.m. ET Pennsylvania House members met in Philadelphia's Congress Hall for the first time in nearly 40 years. The session was held to recognize the 250th anniversary of America's founding. Speakers highlighted the nation's ongoing progress toward fulfilling the promise that all people are created equal. PHILADELPHIA ― Pennsylvania House members strode into Congress Hall in Philadelphia on Sept.
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