Pennsylvania
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Stephen Sheetz’ Successful Expansion Helped Fuel Wawa Rivalry
A Pennsylvania food feud continues between Delaware County-based Wawa and Altoona-based Sheetz, even with the recent death of Sheetz CEO Stephen G. Sheetz, writes Emily Bloch for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The 77-year-old Sheetz led the family-owned business from 1984 to 1995, then served as chairman of the board for nearly 20 years. Under his watch,…
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Pennsylvania’s Problem Gambling Helpline Sees Record Number of Calls in 2025
For many Pennsylvanians who struggle with a gambling addiction, the state’s problem gambling hotline is a valuable resource to find support, writes Isaac Avilucea for AXIOS. This year, the helpline has reached its record number of calls, with over 2,700 through November, according to data from the Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania. This is double the amount of calls received in 2020 and tops…
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Pennsylvania May Be the Next State to Ban Cellphones in Schools
Pennsylvania may be the next state to ban cellphone use in schools, joining half the country, if the Senate Bill 1014 passes through the General Assembly, writes Chris Ullery for the Bucks County Courier Times. According to the bill, school districts would be required to prohibit students’ cellphone usage during school hours. Exceptions would be…
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Aqua Pennsylvania Installs PFAS Treatment to Protect Drinking Water for Thousands of Customers in Bucks County
Aqua Pennsylvania has completed a PFAS treatment system at its Edgely Water Treatment Facility in Bristol Township, Bucks County. This is the tenth PFAS treatment facility that Aqua Pennsylvania has placed into operation since 2018, all of which meet the new PFAS national drinking water standard. The new system at Edgely consists of six filters…
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Buc-ees Teases Move to Pennsylvania as It Expands to Virginia
Buc-ee’s is inching its way toward Pennsylvania as it opens its most northern store yet in Virginia, even teasing Pennsylvania travelers of an impending store opening here with billboards, writes Damon C. Williams for USA Today Network, as published in Yahoo! news. Similar to Wawa, the Texas-based gas station/convenience superstore has a cult following in…
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Delco Crime Drama ‘Task’ Receives $49.8M Tax Credit to Film in Pennsylvania
The HBO crime drama Task has a strong incentive to return to Pennsylvania for a second season, even beyond a desire to tell a Delaware County-centered story, writes Rosa Cartagena for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The show has been awarded a $49.8 million tax credit from the Shapiro administration through the Film Production Tax Credit Program.…
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New Store Coming to Dauphin County Puts Wawa in Sheetz Territory
Wawa is working on opening its first Dauphin County store in Middletown, Central Pennsylvania, part of a vanguard of 40 Wawa locations planned in that region by 2030. “We see Harrisburg up to State College, and I’ll say everything between and around it,” said Wawa President Brian Schaller. Though Wawa has not given a specific…
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Convenience Store Liquor in Pennsylvania? Rutter’s Thinks It Could Work
Could convenience store liquor become a thing in Pennsylvania? York County-based Rutter’s is opening a door. Its parent company applied to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to open 64 “limited distilleries” at its stores. That application was denied, but Rutter’s is appealing, writes Steth Kaplan for WHTM, as reported at Yahoo! news. Rutter’s already sells…
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Wawa/Sheetz Are Fairly Evenly Matched in Battle for Business
A perceived Wawa-Sheetz rivalry has been a focus for decades in Pennsylvania as both companies work to dominate the Keystone State, writes Ryan Deto for Axios. In reality, neither Delaware County’s Wawa nor Altoona’s Sheetz is dominating, though Sheetz has gained ground. Both are tied as the second-highest rated convenience store chain in the country,…
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Want to Be in Pennsylvania’s 1%? Here’s the Income You’ll Need
To rank in the top one percent of earners in Pennsylvania, residents need an income of $605,333, which is the 24th highest total in the country, write Joanne Drilling and Jeff Blumenthal for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The ranking draws on the most recent IRS earnings data from 2022. Across the nation, the findings revealed…
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Abby’s Law, with E-Scooter Restrictions, Introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate
Delaware County State Sen. Tim Kearney introduced legislation Tuesday in the Pennsylvania Senate that would prohibit children under the age of 16 from riding e-scooters. SB1008, known as Abby’s Law, was introduced in honor of Abigail Gillon, a 12-year-old Aston girl who died in June from an accident involving an electric scooter, writes Robert Moran…
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Breweries Rally After Iron Hill Closure with Discounts, Job Offers
Pennsylvania breweries are reaching out to help customers and employees impacted by the abrupt closing of the 30-year-old Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant chain, writes Emma Dooling for Philadelphia Business Journal. The regional chain cited financial challenges and an inability to secure new funding as the reason for the closures. The company is filing for…
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Do You Know Pennsylvania’s Most Misspelled Word?
When it comes to food, Pennsylvanians feel the need to get it right. We love our food. But…not many of us know how to spell our beloved PA foods. Google Trends dubbed “sauerkraut” and dozens of other hard-to-spell words as America’s Most Misspelled Words in honor of a National Spelling Bee, according to a report…
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Pennsylvanians Push Limits with Increasingly Creative, Crass Vanity Plates – And Keep Hitting Roadblocks
Pennsylvanians are becoming more creative, and often more crass, with their ideas for vanity plates, but the state keeps saying no, writes Isaac Avilucea for AXIOS. The most recent list of banned plates in the state has ballooned to over 4,500 entries, more than double the 2,000 that were listed in 2023. The new terms…
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Albright College in Reading Fights for Survival with Strategic Changes
Albright College in Reading, one of the many higher education options for Chester County students, ended its recent fiscal year with a surplus of over $10 million, overcoming its deficit by cutting operational costs, reducing full-time staff, and selling unused property and assets, writes Amanda Fries for The Philadelphia Inquirer. But even with all the…
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Pennsylvania Named One of Top States for AI Innovation and Capacity Building
Pennsylvania ranks among the top three states for AI usage, training, and capacity building in state government, according to Code for America, writes Ryan Deto for AXIOS. “In Pennsylvania, leaders have aggressively pursued workforce capacity building through training partnerships with Carnegie Mellon and InnovateUS,” states the national nonprofit’s report. Alongside neighboring New Jersey and Delaware,…
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State Legislation, Abby’s Law, Seeks to Regulate E-Scooters Following Aston Accident
State Sen. Tim Kearney (D-Delaware) is introducing e-scooter safety legislation known as Abby’s Law in response to the death of 12-year-old Abigail Gillon following an e-scooter accident on June 14 in Aston, according to a release from Pennsylvania Senate Democrats. Gillon and her close friend Isabella Jones, 11, were injured when they were thrown from…
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Independent Voters Ask State Supreme Court to Strike Down Pennsylvania Closed Primary System
Four independent voters have asked the state Supreme Court to declare Pennsylvania’s closed voting system violates the state Constitution’s guarantee of free and fair elections, writes Pat Loeb for KYW Newsradio. The voters argue that in many races, the party primaries are the only meaningful contests, not the general election. Only a few swing districts…
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