PA Profundities from election night…
I’ve discovered the great paradox of being a reporter in Pennsylvania whilst awaiting municipal primary election results : It’s big, it’s fascinating and all its laws and practices (um, how many municipalities are there? What’s a twp. you ask?) are incredibly antiquated. This makes it both endlessly entertaining and endlessly frustrating — for sure as a journalist, and quite possibly as a citizen as well.
I’ve had the fortune — or misfortune, depending on how one looks at it — of being a reporter in two of the largest and strangest states one can be a reporter in: Florida and Pennsylvania. They say everything strange either comes out of Florida or goes down to Florida. I’m working on formulating a corollary that relates Pennsylvania (really, Pennsyltucky aka the better part of Central PA) to this Florida theory…
