The round-up of news clips for May 19, 2010.

An Editorial in the Daily Times of Delaware County, Pennsylvania today endorsed the Fair Elections Now Act, urging lawmakers of both parties to support the measure in Congress.

Martha Carbone has a letter to the editor on the Pocono Record reminding folks about the upcoming Clean Elections forum in Monroe, Pennsylvania on March 8th.  The forum is sponsored by the League of Women Voters and will feature speakers from the coalition that has been successful in moving Clean Elections efforts forward in New Jersey.  The event will be held at the Monroe Public Library beginning at 10 am and is free and open to the public.

For those in eastern Pennsylvania, the League of Women Voters will be hosting a forum on Clean Elections on the morning of Saturday March 8th in Stroudsburg.  More details on the event here, which will feature speakers from the League as well as from New Jersey Citizen Action and Rutgers University. The event is free and open to the public.

Good news from Pennsylvania where the state's Supreme Court upheld campaign contributions for Philadelphia elections, drawing the first set of battle lines in what is shaping up to be a big discussion over electoral reform and campaign finance in the state.

Jake Miller, a high school teacher and chairman of the Common Cause Pennsylvania campaign for full public financing of elections takes the occasion of Fair Elections Action Week to make this argument in favor of a public financing system for judicial races like North Carolina has, and New Mexico recently passed.