{"id":239610,"date":"2026-07-09T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239610\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:37:09","slug":"this-weeks-biggest-winners-losers-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239610\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s biggest Winners &#038; Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s Capital City isn\u2019t exactly a beacon of effective government right now. Not only have state lawmakers in Harrisburg failed to pass a state budget on time for the fifth straight year, but the City of Harrisburg is also facing its own struggles. The state is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/business\/2026\/07\/the-ball-was-dropped-harrisburg-misses-multiple-deadlines-told-to-give-back-23m-in-grant-money.html?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=GMPA-070826&amp;utm_term=Newsletter_good_morning_pa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pressuring the city to repay $2.3 million in grants<\/a> for a project at Reservoir Park after the city missed multiple deadlines, and the spokesperson for Mayor Wanda Williams is currently on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/crime\/2026\/07\/harrisburg-mayors-spokeswoman-put-on-administrative-leave.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">administrative leave<\/a> amid rumors that an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\/local-news\/harrisburg-city-communications-director-placed-on-administrative-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">anonymous letter<\/a> critical of Williams was sent to City Council leaders. On top of all that, the city once again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/harrisburg-fourth-of-july-fireworks-canceled\/71824516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">canceled its Fourth of July fireworks<\/a> at a time when there\u2019s no shortage of fireworks within city government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading for more winners and losers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania\u2019s Capital City isn\u2019t exactly a beacon of effective government right now. Not only have state lawmakers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,4219],"class_list":["post-239610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-winners-losers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}