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ICYMI: Democrats secured big wins last week but still fell short of earning seats in some of Lancaster County's most red areas. The margins are closing, though. Does that mean a blue wave is coming in 2026?
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Lancaster County Democrats had a good year. Does that mean blue wave will ensue in 2026?
Tuesday was a big day for Democrats.
lancasteronline.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
jadecampos.bsky.social
Jaime Arroyo will be Lancaster's next mayor -- the city's first Latino mayor -- after earning 84% of the vote Tuesday night.

Democrats also secured seats on City Council, maintaining the party's total control of city government
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Lancaster city voters pick Jaime Arroyo for mayor; Dems sweep 4 council seats
Democrat Jaime Arroyo will be Lancaster city’s next mayor after securing a resounding victory Tuesday night.
lancasteronline.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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russwalker.bsky.social
In Lancaster County, Pa., Democrats regained control of municipal government in Manheim Township, the second-largest (by population) muni in the county and the richest by far. The won 3 of 3 seats on the 5 member board and now hold all 5 seats.
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
jadecampos.bsky.social
happy election day!!! @lancasteronline.bsky.social has all of your Lancaster County election news 😎
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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jaxonwhite.bsky.social
‘Now I have nothing’: Pennsylvanians expect hardship without SNAP

Gov. Josh Shapiro joins Democrats’ lawsuit for emergency SNAP funds amid government shutdown www.witf.org/2025/10/28/n...
‘Now I have nothing’: Pennsylvanians expect hardship without SNAP | WITF
Lebanon County resident Caitlyn Stuber received her latest check from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Oct. 9.Stuber, a 30-year-ol […]
www.witf.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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tommylisi.bsky.social
1 in 10 people in Lancaster County are enrolled in SNAP. Makes you wonder if the powers that be realize the sheer loss of spending power and economic activity that's about happen across the country.
Lancaster County social services providers see fast growing need as SNAP benefits go on pause
Social services providers in Lancaster County, including the United Way of Lancaster County and the Lancaster County Food Hub, are seeing a surge in demand as federal and state budgets
lancasteronline.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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jaxonwhite.bsky.social
Budget impasse pushes Lancaster County into financial crisis, won't pay social services next month lancasteronline.com/news/local/b... via @tommylisi.bsky.social at @lancasteronline.bsky.social
Budget impasse pushes Lancaster County into financial crisis, won't pay social services next month
Editor's note: This story was updated on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 6:41 p.m. to reflect additional information from the governor's office about the status of funding for senior services.
lancasteronline.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
jadecampos.bsky.social
Rodney Feltenberger is a single father who lived in a motel for 1.5 years with his two teenage sons. Luke, his oldest, learned how to easily fall asleep on the floor.

Luke and his younger brother were just two of 2,500 homeless students in Lancaster County
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More than 2,000 students in Lancaster County are homeless. Here’s what that means
Luke Feltenberger stays locked in when he’s on the football field.
lancasteronline.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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jaxonwhite.bsky.social
Nearly 2 million Pennsylvanians who rely on SNAP will not receive their November payments due to Congress’ failure to enact a federal budget. www.witf.org/2025/10/16/s...
SNAP benefits for 2 million people in Pa. on hold during government shutdown | WITF
Nearly 2 million Pennsylvanians who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will not receive their November payments due to Congress […]
www.witf.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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propublica.org
#ICYMI: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

By @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social, w/ @kuow.org
Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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lancasterwatchdog.bsky.social
Take a look at today's @lancasteronline.bsky.social for our guide to the 2025 municipal election:
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Voters Guide 2025: Everything you need to know before Election Day
Democratic and Republican voters in Lancaster County are preparing to select candidates for school board directors, mayor and down-ballot positions, including municipal tax collectors and auditors.
lancasteronline.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
jadecampos.bsky.social
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker is claiming defamation after an Oct. 8 editorial published by LNP said the lawmaker is “lying to his constituents” by saying in a newsletter that Democrats are pushing for “taxpayer-funded free healthcare for illegal immigrants.”
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Smucker claims LNP opinion piece defamatory, seeks retraction
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker is claiming defamation after an Oct. 8 editorial published by LNP | LancasterOnline said the lawmaker is “lying to his constituents” by saying in a newsletter
lancasteronline.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Former ICE director John Sandweg says the ways in which Holman is conducting operations is totally unprecedented for the agency and clearly appears calculated to be needlessly violent and provocative. It's as if they want a show of mayhem, he offers. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘Those Rules Are Gone’: How ICE Is Rethinking its Raids
ICE used to arrest the “worst first.” Under the new Trump administration, the agency is following a different playbook, says a former ICE chief.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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jaxonwhite.bsky.social
Ron Hetrick, president and CEO of the company that owns WITF and LNP | LancasterOnline, announced his resignation Monday, effective immediately. lancasteronline.com/news/local/t...
Top executive at WITF, LNP | LancasterOnline resigns
Ron Hetrick, president and CEO of the company that owns WITF and LNP | LancasterOnline, announced his resignation Monday, effective immediately.
lancasteronline.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
jadecampos.bsky.social
Ephrata will be a place to watch this November.

For the first time in decades, Democrats have fielded a full slate of candidates for school board, borough council and mayor. They're optimistic about their chances in the small, bright red borough

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Democratic Party's momentum builds in Ephrata with first full slate of candidates since 2001
Kids exploded with laughter as another piece of candy went flying across Lake Street in downtown Ephrata.
lancasteronline.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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jaxonwhite.bsky.social
Lawmakers spent the 100th day of the budget impasse venting frustrations about each other, claiming the other side is not negotiating in good faith. www.witf.org/2025/10/08/t...
Tensions boil over in Capitol, as Pennsylvania lawmakers hit 100 days without a budget | WITF
The parties controlling the two sides of Pennsylvania’s Legislature spent the 100th day of the budget impasse venting frustrations about each ot […]
www.witf.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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404media.co
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
jadecampos.bsky.social
If you have not heard the news, Penn State has decided to shut down the local radio station, WPSU. This is devastating for the Central PA area in which a majority of WPSU's region covered rural areas with few other news sources
radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...
Penn State plans to 'wind down' WPSU after board committee rejects plan to transfer it to WHYY
WPSU, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary of bringing public media to Pennsylvania, is slated to close soon, after a Penn State board of trustees committee voted Thursday against a proposal...
radio.wpsu.org
September 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
jadecampos.bsky.social
This week, a local nonprofit brought a handful of unhoused people together to paint a mural on an old gazebo outside of McDonald's in Lancaster city.

The makeover of this gazebo has been really cool to see in real time
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Lancaster homeless community hopes to make impact with new mural at downtown McDonald's
There’s a new set of golden arches at the McDonald’s on West King Street in Lancaster.
lancasteronline.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I got to go on the truck !
August 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The only English- and Spanish-bilingual public radio station in Lancaster and York counties is expected to cut programming next year in the wake of Congress’ vote last month to rescind public broadcasting funds via @jaxonwhite.bsky.social
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SACA’s bilingual ‘Radio Centro’ loses one-third of its budget from federal broadcasting cuts
The only English- and Spanish-bilingual public radio station in Lancaster and York counties is expected to cut programming next year in the wake of Congress’ vote last month to rescind
lancasteronline.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted.

One ICE official who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a…
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July 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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dtohl.bsky.social
This is Sue’s story. But it could be the story of any of the roughly half a dozen families I spoke to for this investigation.

And it’s the story of what failure over three decades means for real people, a mother and son.
The tragic consequences of PA's failed mental health system
One family's story reveals the human cost of hospital closures, funding cuts, and the resulting failures in Pennsylvania's mental health care system.
www.spotlightpa.org
July 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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nytimes.com
The White House said on Monday that it had barred Wall Street Journal reporters from the traveling press pool for President Trump’s trip to Scotland, attacking the publication again for its reporting on ties between the president and Jeffrey Epstein.
White House Bans Wall Street Journal From Press Pool on Trump’s Scotland Trip
The president sued the publication last week, accusing it of defamation for an article about his ties to the disgraced former financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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July 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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russwalker.bsky.social
Rep. Smucker, it should be noted, declined to speak with Jaxon about the meetings between his office staff and the activists, leaving Jaxon to rely on quotes from a spokesman. The story was about an attempt at actual dialogue ...
jaxonwhite.bsky.social Jaxon White @jaxonwhite.bsky.social · Jul 14
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker responded in part to LNP's reporting on a group of local Indivisible members who organize weekly meetings with his staff to voice their opposition to his policy stances.

Full story here: lancasteronline.com/news/politic...
"It is hard to take @LancasterOnline seriously when they’re more interested in amplifying protest theatrics than covering the real work we do for Lancaster and York County families every day. Their recent article about how my staff meets with constituents on a weekly basis is bizarre—they meet with my office staff every week, but they say they can’t get in touch with me? The implicit bias of LNP is clear in their print and digital headlines. Their latest article lays out the exact reason why I do not do in-person town halls. Organizations like Indivisible have a playbook for intentionally disrupting public events. As I have said for years, I am interested in having productive conversations. I do that routinely meeting constituents one-on-one, in small groups, through telephone town halls, visits across the community, and more. Having a productive conversation is impossible when there are individuals who intend to disrupt the event. Public discourse is done a disservice with these antics. And leave it to Opinion Editor Suzanne Cassidy and the other avowed progressive liberals of the Editorial Board to ignore how the One Big Beautiful Bill finds over ONE TRILLION DOLLARS in SAVINGS—the greatest amount achieved in our nation’s history for a reconciliation bill. We achieve those savings by rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse of programs like Medicaid and SNAP, preserving the programs for those truly in need. The bill also advances the priorities that the American people care about—low taxes, border security, unleashing American energy, and providing for a strong national defense. Talk about out of touch. It’s not hard to see why LNP|LancasterOnline is continuing to fail."
July 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM