More millionaires in Pennsylvania

• Ed Mahon
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  Ed Mahon comes to Spotlight PA from PA Post, where he covered state politics and policy, produced radio stories that were broadcast on public media stations throughout the state and on NPR’s national newscasts, and co-wrote a weekday newsletter. Prior to joining PA Post, Ed worked for six years as an investigative and political reporter for the York Daily Record, part of the USA Today Network. His reporting on failures in Pennsylvania’s system for protecting domestic abuse victims was a finalist in the national 2018 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in the local reporting category. He was also part of a team whose coverage of the criminal justice system, including the aggressive use of civil asset forfeiture by York County prosecutors, received the 2018 G. Richard Dew Award for Journalistic Service from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. Before joining the York Daily Record, Ed covered K-12 education at the Centre Daily Times in State College and worked as a stringer for suburban sections of The Philadelphia Inquirer. He grew up in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

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From The Context, PA Post’s weekday email newsletter:

More than 17,000 millionaires in 2017

• The number of millionaires continues to rise in Pennsylvania, PennLive’s Jan Murphy reports. She has numbers for counties around the state with Pennsylvania Department of Revenue data.

• Montgomery County leads the state and has three times as many millionaires as Philadelphia. And Jan also provided details on which counties saw the biggest percentage increase in million-dollar earners from 2013 to 2017.

• Speaking of millionaires, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders was in Bethlehem Monday night and defended his newfound status as one, Andrew Seidman reports for Philly.com. “If anyone thinks I should apologize for writing a bestselling book, I’m sorry, I’m not going to do it,” said Sanders, a democratic socialist who’s running for president.

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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, center, is being challenged by former City Controller Alan Butkowitz, left, and state Sen. Anthony Williams, right.

• WHYY’s Dave Davies explained why the Philly race for mayor this year is so weird.

• A grand jury has suggested changes to reduce Medicaid fraud, WITF’s Katie Meyer reports. “There was a young autistic girl that didn’t get help because her mom wanted her house to be painted instead, or wanted errands run,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro said.

• “I would call it an extremely conservative, Christian community,” Stu Martin, a father of two children in the Eastern Lancaster County School District, told me on Monday night. We spoke just after the school board voted on a new privacy policy that, if implemented, will prevent transgender students from using the bathroom or locker room that matches their gender identity.