Robert Zullo
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National editor @statesnewsroom.com. Flori-jerseyan.
State budget sent $5 million to a struggling school district represented by the Pa. House speaker penncapital-star.com/education/st...
State budget sent $5 million to a struggling school district represented by the Pa. House speaker • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Buried in a code bill passed with the 2025-26 state budget is a provision giving a single school district $5 million, outside of the typical formulas that are used to distribute funds to Pennsylvania’...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
State budget sent $5 million to a struggling school district represented by the Pa. House speaker penncapital-star.com/education/st...
COMMENTARY: The push to punish an NJ school board member for Facebook posts is foolish newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/24/t...
The push to punish an NJ school board member for Facebook posts is foolish • New Jersey Monitor
A Salem County school board member is the target of an ethics complaint for asking her Facebook followers about tax hikes.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
COMMENTARY: The push to punish an NJ school board member for Facebook posts is foolish newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/24/t...
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Virginia Republicans are facing a deep identity crisis following Democrats’ return to power. “There needs to be a fundamental rewriting of the Republican Party in Virginia. If they don’t get their act together, it’s over," Loudoun County GOP chair Scott Pio said. virginiamercury.com/2025/11/24/w...
‘We’re toast’: Virginia GOP erupts in finger-pointing after sweeping Democratic wins • Virginia Mercury
Rick Buchanan didn’t expect to walk out before the first session even ended.The chair of the 5th Congressional District GOP Committee had arrived at the Donald W. Huffman Advance — the Republican…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Virginia Republicans are facing a deep identity crisis following Democrats’ return to power. “There needs to be a fundamental rewriting of the Republican Party in Virginia. If they don’t get their act together, it’s over," Loudoun County GOP chair Scott Pio said. virginiamercury.com/2025/11/24/w...
County leaders get candid in discussing getting ‘DOGEd’ by CFO’s office floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/23/c...
County leaders get candid in discussing getting ‘DOGEd' by CFO’s office • Florida Phoenix
TAMPA — Two longtime former state lawmakers who now serve in local government don’t think much of the audits of their counties’ spending conducted by Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia’s ...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
County leaders get candid in discussing getting ‘DOGEd’ by CFO’s office floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/23/c...
Meet the Capital-Star's newest reporter – Whitney Downard penncapital-star.com/commentary/m...
Meet our newest reporter – Whitney Downard • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
In the last two weeks, you might have noticed the new byline “Whitney Downard” on the Pennsylvania Capital-Star site without much explanation. I suppose that means I’m overdue for an introduction.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Meet the Capital-Star's newest reporter – Whitney Downard penncapital-star.com/commentary/m...
‘The gales of November come early’: Michigan remembers the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years later michiganadvance.com/2025/11/10/i...
‘The gales of November come early’: Michigan remembers the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years later • Michigan Advance
Fifty years after the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the 729-foot freighter that sank on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975 on its way from Wisconsin to Detroit, memorials around Michigan and the ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
‘The gales of November come early’: Michigan remembers the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years later michiganadvance.com/2025/11/10/i...
Democrats sweep Virginia’s statewide races, reclaiming full control of executive branch virginiamercury.com/2025/11/04/d...
Democrats sweep Virginia’s statewide races, reclaiming full control of executive branch • Virginia Mercury
Spanberger defeats Earle-Sears for governor as Hashmi and Jones win down-ballot contests, capping a year shaped by federal layoffs, reproductive rights and political scandal.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Democrats sweep Virginia’s statewide races, reclaiming full control of executive branch virginiamercury.com/2025/11/04/d...
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Democrat Mikie Sherrill projected to win New Jersey governor’s race newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/04/d...
Democrat Mikie Sherrill projected to win New Jersey governor’s race • New Jersey Monitor
The Associated Press projects Mikie Sherrill (D) has defeated Jack Ciattarelli (R) to become New Jersey's next governor.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Democrat Mikie Sherrill projected to win New Jersey governor’s race newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/04/d...
Pa. justices win retention for 10-year terms on state Supreme Court penncapital-star.com/campaigns-el...
Pa. justices win retention for 10-year terms on state Supreme Court • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Democratic leaders called the results a victory for judicial independence and a further repudiation of efforts by billionaire political donors to buy court seats.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Pa. justices win retention for 10-year terms on state Supreme Court penncapital-star.com/campaigns-el...
Duke’s $3.3B coal-to-gas conversion, third-party coal study approved indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/30/d...
Duke's $3.3B coal-to-gas conversion, third-party coal study approved • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana regulators OK'd the plan to replace coal-powered units with natural gas versions — and explore their sale for third-party operation.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Duke’s $3.3B coal-to-gas conversion, third-party coal study approved indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/30/d...
Tracks win, fans lose: Algorithm-driven wagering on horse racing heads for a reckoning kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/30/t...
Tracks win, fans lose: Algorithm-driven wagering on horse racing heads for a reckoning • Kentucky Lantern
Computer-assisted wagering has put horse racing between a rock and a hard place — its fan base vs. a big source of revenue for tracks.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Tracks win, fans lose: Algorithm-driven wagering on horse racing heads for a reckoning kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/30/t...
‘So, I just pulled over a state senator’: Body camera footage details senator’s DUI stop indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/23/s...
'So, I just pulled over a state senator': Body camera footage details senator's DUI stop • Indiana Capital Chronicle
New body camera footage shows what unfolded the night Sen. Mike Bohacek was stopped and ultimately driven home after a January traffic stop.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
‘So, I just pulled over a state senator’: Body camera footage details senator’s DUI stop indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/23/s...
175-year-old Cranbury farm spared eminent domain fight newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/23/n...
175-year-old Cranbury farm spared eminent domain fight • New Jersey Monitor
Gov. Phil Murphy announced a deal that would allow the owners of a Cranbury farm to prevent the town from seizing it.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
175-year-old Cranbury farm spared eminent domain fight newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/23/n...
Harrisburg man pleads guilty to attempted murder and arson in Governor’s Residence firebombing penncapital-star.com/criminal-jus...
Harrisburg man pleads guilty to attempted murder and arson in Governor’s Residence firebombing • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Balmer, 38, will serve a total sentence of 25 to 50 years. He’ll be eligible for parole in 2050 when he is 63 years old.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Harrisburg man pleads guilty to attempted murder and arson in Governor’s Residence firebombing penncapital-star.com/criminal-jus...
Video blaming Dems for government shutdown won’t play at Newark airport newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/newar...
Video blaming Dems for government shutdown won't play at Newark airport • New Jersey Monitor
The Port Authority's airports join a growing number of facilities rejecting the video over concerns it violates federal law.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Video blaming Dems for government shutdown won’t play at Newark airport newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/newar...
Uthmeier demands investigation into former senator who posted ICE location on Facebook floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/08/u...
Uthmeier demands investigation into former senator who posted ICE location on Facebook • Florida Phoenix
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wants a former state senator investigated for a Facebook post revealing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was at an Orlando bus station.
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September 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Uthmeier demands investigation into former senator who posted ICE location on Facebook floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/08/u...
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I’m so proud of our team at the Ohio Capital Journal and grateful to the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for recognizing the hard work of these excellent journalists! And thank you so much to all of our readers for your encouragement, news tips, and enthusiastic support!
August 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I’m so proud of our team at the Ohio Capital Journal and grateful to the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for recognizing the hard work of these excellent journalists! And thank you so much to all of our readers for your encouragement, news tips, and enthusiastic support!
Deer farm herd killed to stem spread of ‘zombie’ deer disease in Kentucky. Now what? kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/08/d...
Deer farm herd killed to stem spread of ‘zombie’ deer disease in Kentucky. Now what? • Kentucky Lantern
A disease outbreak on a Kentucky deer farm is renewing questions about whether the state needs stronger rules for its permitted “captive cervid facilities.”
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September 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Deer farm herd killed to stem spread of ‘zombie’ deer disease in Kentucky. Now what? kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/08/d...
Kentuckian pleads guilty to conspiring to cover up coal mine fire in Illinois kentuckylantern.com/briefs/kentu...
Kentuckian pleads guilty to conspiring to cover up coal mine fire in Illinois • Kentucky Lantern
Mine manager from Kentucky pleads guilty to conspiring to cover up a fire and keep miners working in an underground coal mine in southern Illinois.
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September 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Kentuckian pleads guilty to conspiring to cover up coal mine fire in Illinois kentuckylantern.com/briefs/kentu...
World War II ended 80 years ago. A KY vet reflects on serving in the deadliest conflict. kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/01/w...
World War II ended 80 years ago. A KY vet reflects on serving in the deadliest conflict. • Kentucky Lantern
Sanford L. Jones, drafted as a teen, fought fascism with valor in World War II and came home to college on the GI Bill. He turns 100 on Sept. 22.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
World War II ended 80 years ago. A KY vet reflects on serving in the deadliest conflict. kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/01/w...
K+20: Katrina showed how crucial federal funding is after a disaster. How much will remain? lailluminator.com/2025/08/29/k...
K+20: Katrina showed how crucial federal funding is after a disaster. How much will remain? • Louisiana Illuminator
Twenty years after the agency’s feckless Katrina response, some Louisiana leaders find themselves in the awkward position of having to defend FEMA.
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August 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
K+20: Katrina showed how crucial federal funding is after a disaster. How much will remain? lailluminator.com/2025/08/29/k...
States fast-track wind, solar permits and contracts to beat Trump’s deadline newjerseymonitor.com/2025/08/27/s...
States fast-track wind, solar permits and contracts to beat Trump’s deadline • New Jersey Monitor
State leaders are racing to start construction on wind & solar projects before the expiration of federal tax credits to support clean energy.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
States fast-track wind, solar permits and contracts to beat Trump’s deadline newjerseymonitor.com/2025/08/27/s...
Special Report: More change ahead for New Orleans public schools 20 years after Katrina lailluminator.com/2025/08/27/s...
Special Report: More change ahead for New Orleans public schools 20 years after Katrina • Louisiana Illuminator
As what’s been called the nation’s biggest experiment in public education prepares to enter its third decade, local school leaders are bracing for still more changes.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Special Report: More change ahead for New Orleans public schools 20 years after Katrina lailluminator.com/2025/08/27/s...
Theft or civil disobedience? kentuckylantern.com/2025/08/18/t...
Theft or civil disobedience? • Kentucky Lantern
Kentucky church urges members to permanently remove some books from a local public library because they are about LGBTQ+ people.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Theft or civil disobedience? kentuckylantern.com/2025/08/18/t...
Indiana GOP lawmakers, politicos, pan prospect of early redistricting indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/13/i...
Indiana GOP lawmakers, politicos, pan prospect of early redistricting • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Government experts also weigh the costs and payoffs of early redistricting for the state's ruling party — and democracy.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Indiana GOP lawmakers, politicos, pan prospect of early redistricting indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/13/i...