Anti-Trans Bills, Late Budgets & The Bugs Everyone Wants You To Kill

It’s the Friday news roundup! Morgan is away celebrating her birthday (we see you, Cancer season) so the rest of the squad gets nerdy with state budget talks and all those anti-trans bills announced recently, plus why the spotted lanternfly is on everyone’s seasonal kill list.

There’s always great reporting behind these convos:

• The Pennsylvania Capital-Star and the Associated Press break down the latest bills on LGBTQ instruction: https://www.penncapital-star.com/government-politics/senate-approves-limits-on-sexually-explicit-content-gender-identity-discussions-in-schools/ and https://apnews.com/article/education-pennsylvania-gender-identity-tom-wolf-government-and-politics-2fb27c1be186f2e36095b308523286af
• Spotlight PA really goes into detail on different budgetary sticking points this year: https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2022/07/pennsylvania-state-budget-explainer-late/
• Check out this meaty report from Old Dominion University that really details PA’s past budget woes: file:///Users/meganharris/Downloads/289-Article%20Text-915-1-10-20201112.pdf
• And here’s Penn State’s Spotted Lanternfly sighting reporting tool https://extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternfly

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