Berks Edition 30th Anniversary Survey

2013 - Pennsylvania Auditor General releases audit of the Reading School District: Eugene DePasquale, the state's top transparency and accountability official, said at the time, "To be direct, the Reading School District has failed. It has failed the children of the city and it has failed the taxpayers." In 2018, DePasquale returned to Reading to praise the district for its recovery, saying the turnaround was "unprecedented."
2017 - House Democrats spend $248,000 in taxpayer money to secretly settle a sexual harassment complaint against Berks County state Rep. Tom Caltagirone: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a fellow Democrat, and other leaders called on him to resign, but Caltagirone denied the accusations and refused to step down, ultimately winning another term in office. Caltagirone later announced he would retire in 2020, after his 22nd term.