Welcome to GrassrootsPA.org

What summer? We’ve still working hard on cool new sites and features to complement GrassrootsPA.com and add valuable resources to Pennsylvanian’s online community. Here’s yet another site for you to waste time reading!

PAPolls.com-Crazy about head to head polls? You’ve come to the right place! Are you reporter who wants to eye state polling trends? Perhaps you are a pundit who needs that perfect survey soundbite for an interview? Maybe you are a politician vigorously searching PA public opinion data for that perfect “fact” to justify a position in a brand new press release? Or maybe, just maybe, you are a passionate activist who wants to argue until the cows come home about what a survey means?!? Regardless of your purpose, we’re going to do out best to track, list, and dissect the big stuff within each new Pennsylvania survey on PAPolls.com. Hey, which poll junkie doesn’t want to have all that information handy?

Best of all, PAPolls.com utilizes IntenseDebate commenting (sign-in use the same exact account you use on GrassrootsPA.com) And as you might expect, NewsTalkPA.com discussions, which are featured on ALL of our sites, also materialize on this new one. As always, please feel free to pass along any missed PA polls via the contact form on PAPolls.com.

PABallot.com -’Who the heck is running for office here in Pennsylvania?’ ‘Is that legislator gonna get a primary?’ ‘Who are the rumored candidates?’ ‘What’s the challenger’s website?’ You read the news stories on GrassrootsPA.com, see the occasional blurb in your local paper and occasionally hear some discussion on the radio, but has anyone ever compiled and maintained a detailed list for offices like State Rep. and State Senate starting a year and a half out? Say no more… a revamped PABallot.com (which will continue from here on out…we promise) is back from the post-2006 graveyard.  As always, feel free to pass along potential candidates that were missed.

NewsTalkPA.com – Never at a loss for words, meet Pennsylvania’s new comprehensive conversation hub, NewsTalkPA.com. New Bonusgate charges hit? Talk about it with folks statewide on NewsTalkPA.com. Who’s going to take on Bob Casey or Todd Platts? Chat it up with other fellas from the left and the right on NewsTalkPA.com. Your County Commissioner is trying to raise your taxes? Talk about it, with OTHER locals in YOUR SPECIFIC COUNTY SECTION on NewsTalkPA.com. (If your county isn’t on here, you DON’T live in PA!) And as an added punch, NewsTalkPA.com is currently tailored into new sites like PABallot.com and will be stitched into MANY OTHER new sites that have not yet been released! Best of all, unlike GrassrootsPA.com (which was never designed to facilitate long-lasting bulletin-board-style discussions,) YOU pick the hot topics and, YOU keep them alive and hot as long as you like, and YOU decide when the debate is over! Join the statewide discussion at NewsTalkPA.com!

SportsTalkPA.com – A handful of major things unite us, INTEREST-WISE as Pennsylvanians. On the one hand, there is the combination of statewide/local news & statewide/local politics. Sure those are hot interesting topics, and those ideological and territorial arguments can get heated (in a fun kinda way), but something else brings us together as Pennsylvanians craving discussion that relates to all us. WE LOVE OUR SPORTS TEAMS!  Half our state is dyed-in-the-wool Steelers fans, while the other half is nuts about those Eagles. From the Phillies & Pirates to the Nittany Lions, Pitt Panthers & Villanova Wildcats we have some of the best sports clubs in the county all over the Commonwealth. SportsTalkPA.com provides a forum for all our wacky sports fans (pros all the way down to the high school level) to discuss their favorite teams with other supporters, and get into it with their cross-state rivals if need be.

Ultimately, while SportsTalkPA.com and NewsTalkPA.com have similar missions, they will bring completely different Pennsylvania audiences together in a vibrant and fulfilling statewide discussion (Some of the same people passionate about Politics and State Govt have next to no interest in sports, and vice versa). SportsTalkPA.com is our very first swing in the sports-related arena, and we are gonna give it the old college try.

NewsFlashPA.com – If GrassrootsPA.com provides the reader with a vast snapshot of what is going on in the state, NewsFlashPA.com would be that same day, from a better angle and height…and, of course, a slightly different lens. Take GrassrootsPA.com’s story feed in a cleaner, clutter-free layout, throw in breaking news headlines links from the leading news sources from every corner of the state, and compliment everything with the latest topics being discussed on our various sites and you probably have a slightly more complete picture than GrassrootsPA.com alone. NewsFlashPA.com was designed to load MUCH faster than GrassrootsPA.com and is still being tweaked to provide the best complete picture of the Keystone State. There is certain beauty in being able to see the entire state in a single quick pageload. NewsFlashPA.com, a work-in-progress, hopes to serve that very function.

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