Sticker shock | Scene Through the Lens
Voicing opinion
America in One Room: Pennsylvania, a four-day event hosted by Stanford University’s Deliberative Democracy Lab. drew 175 voters of various parties and demographics from all over the state to reflect on issues facing Pennsylvania.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the keynote speaker on the final day.
That wasn’t my only political event this week. Gov. Josh Shapiro - who spoke on Friday at the One Room event - was in town earlier to announce Pennsylvania is suing President Trump’s administration in an effort to restore $13 million in funds for food banks and farmers that the USDA eliminated earlier this year.
He visits Philadelphia often enough our readers know what the governor looks like, so his appearance at a news conference at the Share Food Program gave me an opportunity to cover it without having to picture the elaborate mise en scène set up as a backdrop - at least not head on!
Since 1998 a black-and-white photo has appeared every Monday in staff photographer Tom Gralish’s “Scene Through the Lens” photo column in the print editions of The Inquirer’s local news section. Here are the most recent, in color: