PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: HERE’S A Halloween scare for Gov. Corbett: The number of registered Republican voters in the state who say he should drop his bid for a second term next year is roughly equal to the number who want him to press forward.

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: Pennsylvania voters oppose repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, by a 50-40 percent margin, a statewide poll shows.

CBS: …When the testing finally took place in late September, the testers started trying to create an application. Just a couple of pages into the process, everything “ground to a stop,” said one source.

BUDPEST BEACON: Was it stupidity or corruption that led the Hungarian parliament to adopt the new campaign finance law earlier this year? According to Political Capital and Transparency International Hungary, Law LXXXVI of 2013 allows hundreds of millions of forints in government campaign funds to be paid in cash to political parties running as few as 27 individual candidates in national parliamentary elections.

Rick Gray and Charlie Smithgall have each served two terms as mayor of Lancaster. They are the same age. Both are intelligent and experienced. Both devoted to Lancaster.

Open the legalized gambling door too far, and too many compulsive gamblers will drive themselves and their families into bankruptcy and homelessness. Even more poor and desperate people, instead of saving money to get ahead, will throw it away in hopes of a big payday.

Though many analysts believe Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is vulnerable in his re-election bid, Pennsylvania hasn’t had a competitive race against an incumbent governor in recent years, Ceisler said. This time, so many Democratic potential challengers are lining up that “no one knows who to give to, or who is really ahead.”

USA TODAY COLUMN: …[John Henry] the new owner of the Boston Globe is one of a number of wealthy, newly minted newspaper owners who believe journalism is vital to a community and newspapers are not lost causes.

ALJAZEERA: The school said 23 deals are fully signed and three are agreements in principle. The school faces six other claims, and says it believes some do not have merit while others may produce settlements.

LANCASTER County Press Release: Commissioner Martin today praised the Lancaster County Convention Authority Board Members for executing the Convention Center Financing Plan Collaboration Agreement in a 6-0 vote last Thursday evening.

States have found that many inmates go back to prison not for committing new crimes but for technical violations, like missing appointments with parole officers or failing drug tests. With that knowledge, states have moved to less costly and more effective sanctions — a brief jail stay, community service or more frequent meetings with the parole officer — for such offenses.

WE.CONNECT.DOTS: Was PA Governor Tom Corbett played by the promise of Dutch Royal Shell’s proposed ethane cracker plant in Beaver County? Was PA Governor Tom Corbett played by the promise of Dutch Royal Shell’s proposed ethane cracker plant in Beaver County?

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:… [Gov. Tom] Corbett is holding more press events, making more appearances touting jobs in the southeast, shifting his stance on programs that help low-income people and sharing the podium at events with the GOP’s popular elder statesman, former Gov. Tom Ridge…