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He would be Pennsylvania’s first Black lieutenant governor — and the highest-ranking Black public official in Pennsylvania history.

Josh Shapiro is expected to tap a Western Pennsylvania state representative to be his running mate in 2022. Shapiro, the state’s attorney general and, so...

Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate race raises simmering divisions inside the party In the beginning stages of Pennsylvania’s high stakes Democratic Senate primary, even the most progressive of candidates are downplaying the label. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey’s decision to retire next year means that for the first time in more than a decade, voters in what has become one of the country’s most hotly contested swing states will not see an incumbent senator on the ballot in 2022. The opening has gifted Democrats both a chance to expand their narrow advantage and — depending on who captur...

Sundance Institute plans to launch a film festival in Indonesia this summer Sean P. Means © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune (Mike Stack | Salt Lake Tribune file photo) The National Monument and city skyline in downtown Jakarta, Indonesia, in October 2017. Sundance Institute announced on March 11, 2021, that it would hold the first Sundance Film Festival: Asia in Jakarta in late summer 2021. There will be a Sundance Film Festival that people can attend in person this year — in Indonesia. The Sundance Institute, the arts nonprofit founded by Robert Redford, announced earlier ...

Sims was recently re-elected to a fifth term representing a portion of downtown Philadelphia. He is a longtime civil rights advocate and was the first openly LGBTQ member of the Pennsylvania Legislature when elected in 2012.