Senior Assistant Montgomery County solicitor John Marlett said some 474 Montgomery County primary voters returned ballots with the wrong date. “The year was either missing or incorrect,” he said. The Board of Elections then voted 2-1 to accept ballots without a year or the incorrect year.  However, neighboring Delaware County adopted the opposite policy. Marlett told the Montgomery County Board of Elections on Friday that the secretary of state’s guidance says a missing or incorrect year does not disqualify the ballot, leaving it up to county boards of election. The state issued that advi ..read more

As a pro-Palestinian encampment and protest at the University of Pennsylvania continues, Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick is calling on the university to put an end to the illegal demonstration. More than 3,200 students, faculty, and staff signed a petition telling the university to disband the encampment. School administrators have ordered the it closed. Protesters defied those orders. McCormick, who visited the Penn campus last week, told DVJournal in a podcast interview, “What we’re seeing on these campuses is the explicit antisemitism, explicit anti-Americanism, an environment th ..read more

Delaware County officials told an overflow crowd of concerned citizens at a recent council meeting that, despite the rumors, they have no plans to turn the Don Guanella property in Marple Township into migrant housing. Regardless, one Delaware County Democrat condemned their concerns as “hate speech” and dismissed the county residents who showed up as an “angry mob.” The property, renamed Delco Woods, was acquired by the county from the Catholic Church with the understanding that it would be used for open space. However, the county has at least considered using a part of the property for a men ..read more

Dorothy finished applying a layer of flour to her already pale face, put on her best early Victorian bonnet (complete with a semicircle of flowers atop her hair), and sat in a chair in a studio near New York’s Washington Square. She stayed still as a stone for an agonizing 65 seconds, during which she couldn’t budge or blink; she was barely allowed to breathe. Finally, she was told she could relax. As Dorothy slumped back in her seat, she had no way of knowing she’d just made history. What the attractive woman in her early 30s had done for the very first time would go on to be repeated countle ..read more

During a U.S. House Judiciary Committee field hearing in Philadelphia on Friday, committee members heard firsthand about Philadelphia police officer Sgt. James O’Connor’s death from his widow, Terri. “We have a city in shambles,” Terri O’Connor told the committee. “We have a district attorney who says crime is down. Obviously, if you don’t prosecute criminals, it appears that way.” For Republicans, it was more proof that the progressive policies of District Attorney Larry Krasner are making the community less safe. “Soft on crime prosecutors mixed with elected leadership defunding the police l ..read more

GOP U.S. Senate candidate –and alleged Diet Coke addict — Dave McCormick joins the Delaware Valley Journal podcast from out on the Keystone State campaign trail. McCormick takes questions from DVJ’s News Editor Linda Stein on the antisemitic protests at the University of Pennsylvania, the abortion issue, and attacks on the PA Republican from the NYTimes. And how being the father of six daughters is impacting McCormick’s campaign. So pop open a cold one (diet, if possible) and enjoy! Hosted by Michael Graham of InsideSources ..read more

The Lansdowne Borough Council has rejected a plan to bring automated license plate readers to two intersections. The borough received $30,000 in state money from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to install the license plate readers at Baltimore and Union Avenues and Baltimore and Lansdowne Avenues. The readers would have taken a picture of a license plate and then compared it with other license plates in a database. Police Chief Kenneth Rutherford said the technology could find vehicles without insurance or with expired registration. He added the technology would make it ea ..read more

(For an alternative viewpoint see: Point: Protesters Are Adamant–Eliminate Israel) University campuses nationwide have long been the focus of political debates and battles in the form of protests and demonstrations. In recent weeks, students galvanized by their consciences have been leading an anti-war movement that our nation hasn’t seen the likes of in decades, and it is spreading like wildfire. At last count, at least 100 Gaza solidarity encampments have been launched at colleges and universities. These students are setting up tents, staging sit-ins, and raising their voices in so ..read more

(This article first appeared in Broad + Liberty.) Many locations where organizations linked to George Soros have funded a national wave of anti-Israel protests on college campuses which directly correlate to prosecutors whose elections were also funded by Soros. This week, Philadelphia joined this unfortunate group with encampments appearing at the University of Pennsylvania. Soros-funded prosecutors have dropped or refused charges against protesters who have been arrested for a myriad of offenses related to the antisemitic occupations on American colleg ..read more

The Rev. Louise Williams Bishop is thankful for the return of three of the gold records her late husband, Jimmy Bishop Sr. earned. She thought they were lost forever. “I’m thinking he did some great work and I was delighted that people other than me and his family recognized that. If you do good, good comes back to you.  And he did a lot of good,” she said. Williams Bishop, known as the Gospel Queen, was on hand with her two sons, Jimmy Bishop Jr. and Tabb Bishop, to receive the gold records from state Treasurer Stacy Garrity on Wednesday. At a Bala Cynwyd press conference at the iHeartMe ..read more