Pennsylvania
Walz visits farm in return to Western Pennsylvania
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz didn’t speak to reporters or roll out new policy prescriptions during his visit to Western Pennsylvania Wednesday — but the visit itself did make a kind of statement.
Walz, a native of Nebraska and the governor of Minnesota, largely bypassed the kind of urban areas from which Democrats have traditionally drawn their electoral strength, and instead headed to a farm in Trump Country.
To be sure, when Walz landed at the Pittsburgh International Airport in a campaign jet a little after 2:30 p.m., he was greeted on the tarmac by Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato. (She later said the two talked about the fact that “we’d be seeing a lot of each other.”) Soon after, Walz and his daughter Hope stopped the campaign caravan at the Moon Township Milkshake Factory. There they purchased chocolate-covered pretzels and a milkshake that, according to campaign sources granted anonymity to speak candidly about sensitive issues, was mint cookies and cream.
But from there, it was a drive of well over an hour to the Maple Bottom Farm outside Dawson, Pennsylvania.
Surrounding Fayette County was once solidly Democratic, but in 2020 backed Donald Trump by two-to-one margins. And while Trump signs seemed somewhat less visible than in previous election cycles, there were several lining the road to the farm itself.
But the presence of Walz there symbolized presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ ambitions to compete for votes everywhere in the state. Earlier this week, the campaign announced the opening of its 50th state field office, boasting that Democrats were “reaching out to voters in every part of Pennsylvania, from Allegheny County to … deep-red counties like Jefferson and York.” And on Wednesday, Walz did his part by taking a tour of the farm, while reporters watched the livestock and the livestock watched the reporters, with somewhat less evident interest.
As security personnel in tactical gear looked out over a field of sunflowers, Walz inspected a cow shed and fed a calf (“I was making you work too hard!” he exclaimed after it latched onto the bottle he was holding.) And he spoke with members of the Baker family, who own the farm, about the rigors of agriculture.
“There is no holiday,” he said.
Eventually, Walz and the family sat down at a picnic table to sample some of the farm’s wares — “he can’t do spicy,” Hope warned in a reprise of a campaign joke — and discuss some of the challenges facing agriculture, as well as energy policy. And while the issue is considered a hot-button in Pennsylvania, due to Harris’ previous hostility to fracking for natural gas, there was ready agreement around the table that, for example, solar panels would be a great addition to barn roofs but shouldn’t occupy fertile land.
As for the arguments over fossil fuels and green energy? “You can do both,” Walz said, objecting to “this false choice that you can’t have one or the other.
“We’re producing more oil than we ever have at any time, which is fine,” he said. But investing in solar and wind energy were also important, he added: “Give people a choice.”
Soon after, reporters were corralled back to the caravan for the drive back to Pittsburgh.
Much like a one-day tour of the area made by Walz and Harris last month, the trip eschewed stump speeches or policy discussions for a series of tableaux that situated the candidate in backdrops identifiable to locals — and identified with them. Walz stayed the night in Downtown Pittsburgh with plans to travel to Erie on Thursday … having been seen, if not herd.
RADNOR TWP., Pa. (WPVI) — Three winning scratch-off tickets totaling $7.5 million were sold in Pennsylvania, lottery officials announced on Monday.
One winning “MONOPOLY Own It All” ticket worth $5 million was sold in Delaware County at the GIANT on the 500 block of East Lancaster Avenue. The grocery store will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
“MONOPOLY Own It All” is a $50 game that offers top prizes of $5 million.
In Erie County, a $1.5 million-winning “Cash Spectacular” scratch-off was purchased at a Sheetz on Perry Highway. “Cash Spectacular” is a $30 game that offers top prizes of $1.5 million.
And in Luzerne County, a $1 million-winning “Millionaire Loading” scratch-off was sold at Schiel’s Family Market in Wilkes-Barre. “Millionaire Loading” is a $20 game that offers top prizes of $1 million.
Scratch-off prizes expire one year from the game’s end-sale date posted at palottery.com.
Winners should immediately sign the back of their ticket and call the Pennsylvania Lottery at 1-800-692-7481.
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A new report from U-Haul shows where Pennsylvania residents are leaving to and where new residents are coming from in 2025. Here’s what to know about U-Haul’s top 10 states with the most and least growth numbers.
Eight warm weather states made U-Haul’s top 10 growth list for 2025, while eight states in the colder Northeast and Midwest filled out the bottom 10, including Pennsylvania and neighboring New York, New Jersey, and Ohio. Delaware ranked 21 out of 50 states in growth for 2025.
U-Haul also noted besides geography, that seven of the 10 states with the most growth featured Republican governors, nine of which went red in the last presidential election, and 9 out of 10 in the bottom growth states featured Democrat governors, seven of which went blue in the last presidential election.
“We continue to find that life circumstances — marriage, children, a death in the family, college, jobs and other events — dictate the need for most moves,” said John “J.T.” Taylor, U-Haul International president in press release. Adding, “But other factors can be important to people who are looking to change their surroundings. In-migration states are often appealing to those customers.”
U-Haul ranks states growth based on their one-way customer transactions that rented trucks, trailers or moving containers in one state and dropped it off in another state. Their growth index included over 2.5 million annual one-way transactions across the United States and Canada.
Texas holds the number one U-Haul growth state for the seventh time in the last 10 years while California ranked last for the sixth year in a how.
Pennsylvania’s growth rank for 2025 remained at a low 46 out of 50 states, same as 2024, and compared relatively similar to its growth numbers over the last 10 years, according to U-Haul’s data, with the exception during 2022-2023 when its highest growth numbers hit 24 out of 50 in 2022 and 38 out of 50 in 2023.
Oregon, Mississippi, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Louisiana and Montana were among the biggest year-over-year gainers in 2025 compared to U-Haul’s 2024 rankings, while Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, Iowa, Delaware and Nebraska saw the biggest drops.
While the national average rent in the U.S. sits at approximately $1,623 per month (0.4% higher than this time last year) the Keystone State boasts a lower rent average at approximately $1,526 per month (1.9% higher than last year), according to Apartments.com. It is ranked 34th least expensive rent by state.
Here’s what to know about Pennsylvania and what states saw the most and least growth in 2025 according to U-Haul.
Top 10 U-Haul growth states of 2025
In 2025 Pennsylvania ranked 46 out of 50 states on growth as reported by U-Haul.
- Texas
- Florida
- North Carolina
- Tennessee
- South Carolina
- Washington
- Arizona
- Idaho
- Alabama
- Georgia
U-Haul reported the 10 states with the lowest growth numbers were lead by California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Connecticut, and Michigan.
Where are Pennsylvania residents moving to and from?
According to the company’s semiannual U.S. migration trends report, based on the one-way rental data after the summer’s high moving season, it revealed that while Pennsylvania remains a top destination, Pennsylvanians are also packing up and heading out. Here’s where they moved to:
- New York
- Maryland
- North Carolina
- Massachusettes
- Ohio
- Michigan
- Florida
- California
- Washington D.C.
According to this report, here’s what states new residents came from:
- New Jersey
- New York
- Maryland
- Florida
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- Delaware
- Massachusetts
- Ohio
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Michigan
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