Broad + Liberty

08/18/2026

https://broadandliberty.com/2026/08/18/delaware-county-pays-462500-to-settle-civil-rights-lawsuit-over-jail-strangling-death/

Delaware County has agreed to pay $462,500 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over the 2022 strangling death of […]

08/13/2026

Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law runs on an honor system — and the governor's office has figured out how to game it. Three times, across two administrations, the office has used a structural gap in the law to run out the clock on requesters seeking public records. Our latest investigation in the comments.

08/13/2026

Trust is hard to build and easy to shatter. The latest controversy in Cheltenham shows just how quickly confidence in public institutions can erode. Our editors weigh in👇

The normally quiet suburb of Cheltenham has been dominating the local news this month, and not for reasons that any […]

08/13/2026

https://broadandliberty.com/2026/08/13/paul-davis-philly-needs-more-cops/

Back in June, NBC10 questioned whether Philadelphia had enough police officers to cover the summer’s FIFA World Cup matches in […]

08/12/2026

https://broadandliberty.com/2026/08/12/scott/

For Pennsylvania’s police chiefs, the debate over intoxicating h**p products is not an abstract discussion about agricultural policy or federal […]

08/12/2026

https://broadandliberty.com/2026/08/12/thom-nickels-talarico-is-straight-out-of-central-casting-for-a-horror-film/

I find it odd that shortly after seeing two cult films, Roman Polanski’s 1999 “The Ninth Gate,” and Stephen King’s […]

08/12/2026

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is suing TikTok, alleging the platform misleads parents about the kind of content kids can encounter while deliberately designing the app to be addictive. TikTok says the lawsuit relies on “misleading and inaccurate claims.” Read the full story from Linda Stein:

In a lawsuit filed this week in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, he alleges the social media giant deceptively categorizes […]

08/11/2026

From B+L Investigates: Documents obtained by Broad + Liberty reveal how a $30 million charitable grant from the Steinman Foundation to Pennon Organization — the Lancaster nonprofit that operates WITF — may have been structured to funnel millions back to the same family that made the grant.

The grant required Pennon to maintain a daily print schedule with a Steinman-owned printer. An independent consultant hired by Pennon found that printer was charging $3–4 million above fair market value every year. Pennsylvania taxpayers and WITF donors were footing the bill.

Link in the coments.

08/10/2026

The Lower Merion School District policy committee voted 3-1 to strip parents of their ability to opt their kids out of district-issued devices — and internal emails suggest the decision was predetermined by the superintendent before the board ever voted. Link in the comments ⬇️

08/05/2026

In Episode 1 of Curious Culture, Thom Nickels reflects on AIDS activism, journalism, and why he says cultural shifts pushed him toward conservatism.