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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

Workers demolish a North Philadelphia rowhouse. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: The week’s best reads from Pennsylvania cities

Changing cities, changing state.    Lead, cont.  We’ve been throwing a lot of lead information ...

10 years ago

Workers demolish a North Philadelphia rowhouse. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: The week’s best reads from Pennsylvania cities

Changing cities, changing state.    Lead, cont.  We’ve been throwing a lot of lead information ...

10 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks during a news conference on Tuesday
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania pension systems say they’ve cut management fees

Pennsylvania’s two large public-sector pension systems say they’ve reduced their investment management fees by millions of do ...

10 years ago

Michel Martin (right) with panelists: (right to left) Bill Generett Jr.
Keystone Crossroads

In Pittsburgh, a frank conversation about what ‘livable city’ means

As Pittsburgh revitalizes, who are the changes benefitting?  Last night, NPR and Keystone Crossroads partner WESA hosted Goin ...

10 years ago

A man welds parts in fans for industrial ventilation systems at the Robinson Fans Inc. plant in Harmony
Keystone Crossroads

Unemployment hits post-recession low, but challenges remain

Wages aren’t keeping up, and some are boxed out of receiving benefits. Let’s start with the good news: on Friday, the ...

10 years ago

People play basketball at Enright Parklet
Keystone Crossroads

Ideas Worth Stealing: When evictions happen, laws to soften the blow

Penn Plaza’s mass eviction was legal but it raised alarms in a city concerned with losing affordable housing. Are there ways to protect ...

10 years ago

 Join us for a community forum in Scranton, April 6.  It’s free and open to the public. We'll see you there.  (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s best reads from Pennsylvania cities

Do you live near Scranton? Come to our forum!  Pipes, paint, water, oh my! Keystone Crossroads has been cover ...

10 years ago

The Public Employee Retirement Commission collects and analyzes pension data from Pennsylvania's 3
Keystone Crossroads

Wolf, Republicans strike temporary deal over Pa. pensions commission

With a court ruling months away, things can go back to normal at the small state agency for now — sort of. The state agency resp ...

10 years ago

A certified medical assistant draws a blood sample from a child in Flint
Keystone Crossroads

Pa. considers testing all children for lead, like some other states do

A look at other states shows that the approach might be a good idea, but it’s only a partial solution. In Pennsylvania, only ...

10 years ago

In 2016
Keystone Crossroads

‘You’re being recorded’: Body cameras may be coming soon to a city near you

Pennsylvania cities struggle with funding and legal issues around police body cameras. Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay can ...

10 years ago

An example of mixed-use development on N. 2nd Street in Philadelphia's Northern Liberties neighborhood. (PlanPhilly file image)
Keystone Crossroads

The federal rule holding back neighborhood-scale mixed-use buildings

Efforts to promote more neighborhood-scale mixed-use buildings typically focus on local policy changes, but there may be an event bigger ...

10 years ago

Tom Bigley
Keystone Crossroads

How we ended up with lead piping and why removing it will be hard

Historically, engineers and government officials pushed for the use of lead in water infrastructure. Now, removing it will take a lot of ...

10 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads

Utilities receiving more requests for testing of lead levels in water

Utilities provide free lead testing for individual homes. The number of requests for tests has risen since news of high lead levels in Fl ...

10 years ago

Coatesville, a small city in Chester county sold its water and sewer utilities for $48 million to the Pennsylvania American Water Company in 2001. After the sale and a three year rate freeze expired, combined bills increased an average of more than 200 percent. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s best reads from Pennsylvania cities

Lead, utilities and Las Vegas: another week in the Keystone State.    ...

10 years ago

Lead paint removal on a old church siding (Babar760/BigStock)
Keystone Crossroads

Lead paint was banned 40 years ago. Why is it still a problem in Pa. cities?

Federal funding has disappeared, and the state is focusing on education, not remediation. When David Rosner was a kid, he’d ...

10 years ago

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