Members of the state House and Senate gathered yesterday to honor the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue mass shooting. Here is the Playbook.

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Harrisburg & DC  
AP: Pennsylvania lawmakers honor victims of synagogue massacre
AP: Fight over sexual abuse victims’ lawsuits returns to Senate
AP: Environmentalists question Pennsylvania’s new methane rule
Patriot News: Pa. General Assembly honors victims of Tree of Life mass shooting in rare joint session
Patriot News: ’Zero Waste PA’ bills seek to move Pa. away from being a ‘throwaway society’  
Patriot News: ‘They are Marines forever’; Pa. lawmakers honor fallen Marines from Harrisburg unit  
Patriot News: Competing bills broaden and complicate efforts to reform child sex crime laws in Pennsylvania  
Patriot News: Returning to stickers for Pa. car registrations: ‘A public safety issue’ or an annoying backtrack?
WITF: Pennsylvania considering a constitutional amendment to overhaul its redistricting process
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: ‘We will have to take on their shares’: Pennsylvania General Assembly remembers 11 victims of Tree of Life synagogue massacre
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: Senate Democrats want to give older clergy abuse victims the chance to sue — without changing the Constitution
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: House passes child sex abuse statute reforms, kicks them to Senate, Scarnati
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: A former governor supports a bill to aid Pa.’s nuclear industry, but a Senate committee isn’t so sure
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: Pa. U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle calls Trump White House aide Stephen Miller a ‘scumbag’
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: House passes Rep. Mike Doyle’s bill reviving Obama-era Net Neutrality rules
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: ‘We have to give it a shot’: Redistricting bill passes Senate committee, as reformers call for more work
PLSReporter: As House approves child sex abuse bills, Senate Democrats present their competing proposal to reform statute of limitations  
PLSReporter: Wolf announces second year of grants towards Teacher in the Workplace programs  
PLSReporter: Freshman Focus: Sen. Maria Collett
Inquirer: Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum discuss upcoming Bernie Sanders town hall meeting in Pennsylvania
StateImpactPA: As baby boomers retire, power companies look to build the next generation of workers
StateImpactPA: Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh smells app goes nationwide, crowdsourcing where the air is worst
WHYY Newsworks: Pennsylvania lawmakers push to eliminate litter and single-use plastic

Philadelphia  
Inquirer: Philly commissioner breaks silence to criticize voting machine decision and call for new selection
Inquirer: Mayor Kenney continued to delete his text messages through early this year
Inquirer: For some neighbors in opioid-plagued Kensington, a supervised injection site feels like giving up
Inquirer: Defense lawyers worry about ‘collateral damage’ as DA Larry Krasner and judge spar over conflict of interest
Philadelphia Magazine: Isaiah Thomas on Why He’s a “Stronger Candidate” in Third City Council Run

SEPA
Delco Daily Times: Scanlon pushes to save Boeing helicopter jobs in Delco
Delco Daily Times: Harrisburg protest calls for new gun-control law
Daily Local News: Chesco files lawsuit to halt Sunoco pipeline construction
Daily Local News: Rep. Shusterman appointed to Intellectual Disabilities and Autism caucus
Inquirer: Chester County sues Sunoco over Mariner East pipeline
Bucks County Courier Times: Lawmakers push for more solar energy use by 2030
Pottstown Mercury: Berks County residents favor legalization of marijuana

Pittsburgh
KDKA: Tree Of Life Synagogue Victims Remembered At Services In Harrisburg
KDKA: Pittsburgh’s New Gun Legislation Includes A Red Flag Rule
KDKA: Pa. Rep. Metcalfe Calls For Peduto’s Impeachment After Gun Legislation Signing
Post-Gazette: Rabbi addresses Pa. lawmakers: ‘We pray that we are not guilty of inaction’
Post-Gazette: U.S. House passes Doyle bill to restore net neutrality rules
Post-Gazette: It took a bit of pestering to get young people to vote in Pa., but group says its strategy worked
Post-Gazette: Western District judicial nominee sails through confirmation hearing
Post-Gazette: Peduto joins 50 mayors grappling with gun violence
Post-Gazette: URA to spend $3 million to build out and furnish former Art Institute of Pittsburgh space
Tribune Review: Lawsuits against Pittsburgh mounting following passage of gun legislation
City Paper: Local anti-socialist political group under fire for allegedly failing to file financial reports

SWPA  
Johnstown Tribune-Democrat: Tree of Life tragedy memorial held amid challenge to state limits on local gun laws
Johnstown Tribune-Democrat: State House passes relief for clerical abuse victims
Johnstown Tribune-Democrat: City of Johnstown transfers proposed park site to conservation group for $1
Altoona Mirror: Saxton pins hopes on medical pot
Beaver County Times: BCTA chief warns about ‘devastating’ change to Medical Assistance Transportation Program  

NEPA
The Times Leader: Luzerne County election director won’t participate in voting machine selection
The Times Leader: Luzerne County spent $47k on Crispell probe
The Times Leader: Wilkes-Barre official says DPW employees voted in favor of new contract
Times-Tribune: As Scranton School District pushes for state funding, online petition gains momentum
Citizens Voice: Council members differ on residency issue   
Citizens Voice: Crispell not on committee to review electronic voting machine proposals
South Central  
PA Post: Man who called cops on black women in York skips candidate forum organized by African American group
LNP | LancasterOnline: City Council endorses health care advocate for Pennsylvania
LNP | LancasterOnline: City department, East Cocalico official earn state local-government awards
LNP | LancasterOnline: Coatesville council approves new agreement with police
York Dispatch: York lacks online access to campaign finance records  
Patriot News: Green lawmakers seek to elbow their way into Pa.’s nuclear debate  
Patriot News: State lawmakers want to protect taxpayers’ money from funding projects like Harrisburg incinerator

Lehigh Valley   
Morning Call: Former Allentown Controller Mary Ellen Koval avoids jail time in pay-to-play investigation
Morning Call: Allentown planners recommend rezoning former incinerator site for manufacturing
Reading Eagle: Bankruptcy judge approves loan to keep Reading Eagle open

North by Northwest
Centre Daily Times: When the ‘homework gap’ hits home: How rural Pa. students learn with limited broadband
AP: Judge orders former Penn State President Graham Spanier to jail May 1  
Opinion  
Inquirer Editorial Board: The machine age of politics should be over in N.J., Philadelphia
Post-Gazette Editorial Board: Path to productivity: Employment should be part of justice reform
Post-Gazette Editorial Board: Let the public in: Residents deserve to be in meeting on rare cancer
Post-Gazette Editorial Board: ‘Heart of the Hill’: Hill House helped to keep the neighborhood alive
Ed Rendell: I wish I’d made different choices about nuclear power in Pa.
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Jane C. Luxton, William J. Walsh and Amanda L. Tharpe: Regulating PFAS will be harder than you think. This is why
John L. Micek: Pennsylvania is stronger than hate. But there’s so much work left to be done
Trudy Rubin: Netanyahu victory in Israel’s election means the end of illusions about a Palestinian state
Kadida Kenner: Raise the minimum wage to chip away at the legacy of white supremacy
Signe Wilkinson: Political Cartoon: WE’RE FULL
Lucy Hu: Following the mosque massacre, lessons New Zealand can take from U.S. race discussions