The co-founders of a central Pennsylvania theater group saw a massive pile of food scraps and cow manure…and decided to write a musical about it.

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Rachel McDevitt got an early look at the show that literally sings the praises of turning farm waste into renewable energy.

Life Waste will be performed Friday and Saturday at 6pm on the Dickinson College Farm in Boiling Springs.

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Solar energy developers may need to pay more to get projects built under a proposal moving through the state legislature.

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Rachel McDevitt reports the measure has bipartisan support. 

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Counties are starting to send out by-mail ballots and some voters are discovering a sticky situation.

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie explains humidity is causing some return envelopes to come pre-sealed and offers guidance on what to do about it. 

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More and more money is flowing into political campaigns, from races for state judges and lawmakers to president, making elections in the U-S among the world’s most expensive.

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie has this explainer on tracking money in Pennsylvania’s state and federal elections.

This story is part of an explanatory series focused on Pennsylvania elections produced collaboratively by WITF in Harrisburg and The Associated Press.

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People who want to put solar panels on their roofs in the midstate could get a better price if they work together. 

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Rachel McDevitt has more on an effort to form a solar-co-op. 

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Students at Shippensburg University, like others at central Pennsylvania colleges, are among those with a big stake in who the next U.S. president will be. 

And they have questions for the candidates. 

We recently sat down with eight students at the Franklin County school: Luke Rainey, Grace Coffman, Ren Wolford, Connor Niszczak, Jenna Cornell, Ian Thompson, Kennedy Holt and Natalie Nichols. 

Their responses to two basic questions provide a glimpse of what they’re looking for as the election nears.

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In a change of course, Cumberland Valley School District will participate in a state-funded program to give student teachers thousands of extra dollars.

But, WITF’s Ben Wasserstein reports scores of other schools still have not sent in their participation agreements.

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A panel of judges is requiring a county to give voters a chance to fix problems with mail-in ballots and allow them to vote by provisional ballot if needed. Republican-led Washington County violated state law when election workers refused to tell voters whether their mail-in ballot would be counted in April’s primary. 

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Some energy experts are hailing the planned restart of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant as good for the climate.

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Rachel McDevitt reports nuclear plants don’t emit the planet-warming pollution that fossil fuel plants do. 

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With just over one month before the election, the Harris campaign is working to get Republicans to vote for Democrats.

WITF’s Ben Wasserstein met with some GOP crossovers in Lancaster County.

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