From dangerous overpasses to exploding county budgets, this week’s Sunday Bulletin exposes the crime, politics, and drama shaping Pennsylvania’s headlines:
INVESTIGATIVE: Delaware County homeowners are bracing for impact as a 19%, 24%, and 5% tax-increase trifecta lands all at once — adding $409 a year to the average tax bill. Are years of deprivatization and mismanagement finally catching up?
REGIONAL NEWS: Police seize over $50,000 in cash and drugs in Willow Grove, Horsham officers break up a violent Tinder meet-up, and Central Bucks investigators hunt the juveniles who hurled concrete off an overpass, shattering a driver’s windshield.
SPORTS: Dave Dombrowski signals the Phillies may be ready to move on from Nick Castellanos, while Flyers Twitter spirals into chaos again as fans clash over Couturier vs. Michkov.
POLITICS: Pennsylvania’s judicial retention vote reveals a shifting electoral map — with surprising counties flipping blue while party leaders stare down high-stakes Congressional battles coming in 2026.
EDITORIAL: From a Hershey spa worker’s religious-rights lawsuit to the federal shutdown that achieved almost nothing, our editors cut through political fog to spotlight the consequences of broken leadership.”