NO-SHOWS: York has contracted with a California company for crossing guard services at local schools, but as many as 15% of the company's guards didn't show up for work on a given day last year, York Dispatch (paywall) reports, citing a contract administrator's report. The $647,000 contract was renewed for this school year.
 

FRACK FLIP: Kamala Harris told CNN in her first sit-down interview since entering the race for president that she does not support a federal ban on fracking and staked that position years ago. Here's a fact-check. Pennsylvania voters have shown an openness to fracking restrictions, but the powerful building trades have not. 
 

BILLIONS PLEDGED: Japan's Nippon Steel is committing to spending billions to upgrade facilities in Pennsylvania and Indiana as part of a planned — and hotly contested — acquisition of U.S. Steel. The announcement comes with the planned takeover under federal review and drawing criticism from laborers and lawmakers. 

TROUBLE WITH THE MERGE: A University of the Arts merger with Temple may be off the table after negotiations soured with a major UArts donor, The Inquirer (paywall) reports: The Hamilton Family Charitable Trust, which has contributed about half of UArts’ $62 million endowment, is not in favor of that money going to Temple as part of the deal.