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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

 Traffic moves along the main street as signals change in Butler, Pa.  (AP File Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Keystone Crossroads

Ideas Worth Stealing: Easing traffic with technology, not more blacktop

Adaptive traffic signals that react to changing traffic patterns can ease commutes. ...

9 years ago

 Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood at sunset.  (Photography by Jessica Kourkounis)
Keystone Crossroads

What’s big for Pennsylvania cities in 2016? Help us decide.

 The Keystone Crossroads team wants your input on our 2016 coverage. Accountability. That, to me, is the most consiste ...

9 years ago

 Christina Moffett lives in a five-bedroom apartment on the second and third floors of a multi-unit building with five of her six children and a baby on the way on North Washington Avenue in Scranton, Pa. (Photography by Jessica Kourkounis)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

New year, with winter weather and new reads. One street, many housing perspectives As part of our ...

9 years ago

 Christina Moffett lives in a five-bedroom apartment on the second and third floors of a multi-unit building with five of her six children and a baby on the way on North Washington Avenue in Scranton, Pa. (Photography by Jessica Kourkounis)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

New year, with winter weather and new reads. One street, many housing perspectives As part of our ...

9 years ago

 Fast food worker Lateefa Davis gathers with others for a May Day demonstration calling for a raise of the minimum wages to $15 an hour Friday, May 1, 2015, at a McDonald's restaurant in Philadelphia, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads

Ideas Worth Stealing: Encouraging employers to pay living wages with a carrot, not a stick

A non-profit in North Carolina is trying to convince employers to pay living wages through a voluntary program.  ...

9 years ago

 Philadelphia School District headquarters. Before he was second-in-command in Allentown, Francis X. Dougherty reported alleged wrongdoing at the Philadelphia School District to the FBI. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dougherty may now receive a settlement of $725,000 from the school district. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Allentown managing director may get large settlement in Philadelphia case

Before he was second-in-command in Allentown, Francis X. Dougherty reported alleged wrongdoing in Philadelphia to the FBI. We̵ ...

9 years ago

 Newly sworn in Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, center left, takes the sidewalk from his inauguration to City Hall Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, in Philadelphia. The 57-year-old Kenney succeeds Michael Nutter, who leaves office after two terms. Kenney served on city council for more than two decades before he was elected in November. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads

New year, new mayor: 2016 brings change to city governments

On Monday, city councils across the state inaugurated new mayors, elected presidents and — in one case — presided over a screaming ma ...

9 years ago

 This undated photo provided by Reading Anthracite on April 29, 2015 shows the St. Nicholas Coal Breaker in Mahanoy City, Pa. In the early 20th century, St. Nicholas opened as the crown jewel of a relatively safer, more modern anthracite industry. The breaker and its twin at Locus Summit operated around the clock to meet the nation's dwindling but still substantial need for anthracite. (Reading Anthracite via AP)
Keystone Crossroads

State might intervene in another distressed Pennsylvania coal town

The population’s been dwindling for more than 100 years in Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County. But the borough’s decline ...

9 years ago

 A view of the Pennsylvania State Museum and Archives Complex, built in 1964 by architects Ritchie Lawrie & M. Edwin Green, appears in the “PA Modern” exhibition. (Photo by Steve Bootay)
Keystone Crossroads

Saving Midcentury Modernist buildings in Pa. cities

This time of year, people think “Out with the old, in with the new.” Yet there’s a growing appreciation for the not-so- ...

9 years ago

 About 250 people demonstrated in support of refugee resettlement as a counter to a protest staged outside Church World Service's office in Lancaster. (Diana Robinson/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads

Double rallies over refugee resettlement in Lancaster

The city of Lancaster’s been a haven for refugees for decades, and there’s been little, if any, public animosity about it. Un ...

9 years ago

 New Year's Eve in Pennsylvania. In Bethlehem, an 85-lb Peep is dropped at the end of PeepsFest. (Image courtesy of DONNA FISHER/THE MORNING CALL)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

 What we’ve learned about Pennsylvania cities in 2015. A hint: we share a lot of the same challenges and opportunities. ...

9 years ago

 New Year's Eve in Pennsylvania. In Bethlehem, an 85-lb Peep is dropped at the end of PeepsFest. (Image courtesy of DONNA FISHER/THE MORNING CALL)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

 What we’ve learned about Pennsylvania cities in 2015. A hint: we share a lot of the same challenges and opportunities. ...

9 years ago

 Zach Hassinger in his apartment in downtown Lewisburg, which he got through the Union County Justice Bridge Housing Program aimed at preventing people on probation or parole from re-offending. Hassinger, 23, has been sober since being charged two years ago with felony drug-dealing and other offenses. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

A fix for ex-offender housing difficulties faces uncertainty

Union County’s controversial Justice Bridge Housing Program got some good results, but funding fell off and its future is uncertain ...

9 years ago

Listen
 Mary Ney, turning 73 next month, moved to Scranton to be with family. She has been living in this one bedroom apartment for almost three years with her adult son, who she cares for because he has suffered brain damage.  Ney, a single mother of four, says ‘I don't like it. I have no faucet for my tub so I can't take baths. I turn the stove on for heat because the one heater in the living room isn't enough to heat the whole apartment.’ (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

One Street Scranton: North Washington Avenue

I think you can learn a lot about a household just by taking a peek into the kitchen. ...

9 years ago

 A view from a window on Montgomery Avenue looking toward Center City Philadelphia.  (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

One Street Philadelphia: Montgomery Avenue

UPDATED: Montgomery Ave. shows the extremes of Philly. Census data show a wide range of incomes along the street. See what that means in ...

9 years ago

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