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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

 From left to right, Shelly Ni, Patrick Hammons, and Ben Smithgall, the Code for America fellows working on procurement issues in Pittsburgh.
Keystone Crossroads

Code for America fellows talk procurement, why tech in government matters, and government business opportunities

Code for America works with governments to improve services through open source technology. Three fellows are helping Pittsburgh with pro ...

10 years ago

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 Rowers shrouded in fog move along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Urban Planning

Readers share their ideas on waterfront revitalization

We asked you what your cities should do with their waterfronts. Here’s a look at some of the responses. Last week, we asked ...

10 years ago

 Gov. Tom Wolf, left, delivers his budget address for the 2015-16 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, in Harrisburg, Pa. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, is at center, and Lt. Gov. Michael Stack, is at right. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads

Wolf’s first budget proposal could boost support for recovery, development in cities

Gov. Wolf mentioned the need for municipal pension reform during his first budget address. That was it. No details. And nothing el ...

10 years ago

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 Pennsylvania voters could be asked to weigh in on a possible referendum on whether to change the state's constitution so lawmakers have more control over defining which organizations are purely public charities. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads

Auditor General roadshow: nonprofits, tax exemption and the state constitution

Voters could be asked this fall to give state lawmakers more power. And they’ll have the chance to learn more about what that might ...

10 years ago

 A man views winter ice on the Delaware River in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads

Who is a ‘spark’ in your community?

If there is someone in your community who fits the description? We want to hear about it. As a part of Keystone Crossroads ...

10 years ago

Keystone Crossroads

Micah Gursky on economic development incentives, pessimism and “The Grapes of Wrath”

Micah Gursky is the director at Tamaqua Area Community Partnership and the borough council president in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County. ...

10 years ago

Keystone Crossroads

Pileggi bill aims to clear the regulatory debris from the fast-track to transit oriented development

A bill to overhaul Pennsylvania’s underutilized Transit Revitalization Investment District Act is currently working its way through ...

10 years ago

 State Senate Local Government Committee Chairman John Eichelberger, R-Blair/Cumberland, and Minority Chairman Rob Teplitz, D-Dauphin, with Rep. Mindy Fee, R-Lancaster, at a meeting in 2014. Eichelberger, Teplitz and state Sen.'s John Blake, D-Lackawanna, and Mike Folmer, R-Lebanon, are sponsoring five bills aimed at better regulating local public debt. (Emily Previti/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads

Capitol recap: what Harrisburg’s parking situation means for the rest of Pennsylvania

Some state lawmakers want to prevent other cities from accumulating the degree of debt that ultimately increased parking costs in Pennsyl ...

10 years ago

Keystone Crossroads

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

Is it Friday already? It’s time for our weekly roundup of city-related reads you may have missed. Is it Friday already?&nbsp ...

10 years ago

 State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads

Scranton’s distressed pensions under investigation for overpayment

The Auditor General, Eugene DePasquale, announced today that his office will investigate double payments of pension benefits in Scranton. ...

10 years ago

 Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray announces free public and discounted private Internet access expected by the end of this year. Gray says the city started working on this initiative in 2006. (Emily Previty/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads

First in Pa.: Free citywide public wi-fi coming to Lancaster

 Citywide web access is rare nationally, and Lancaster would be the first municipality in Pennsylvania to offer it. Lancaster ...

10 years ago

 Men run along the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Urban Planning

What should your city do with its waterfront?

Tell us your hopes and dreams for your city’s rivers.  You might be seeing a lot of ice these days, but we want you to ...

10 years ago

 Florida Gov. Rick Scott (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
Keystone Crossroads

Pennsylvania’s business climate: The good, the bad, the strange

Companies evaluate where to set up shop by looking at labor, logistics, taxes and government incentives. So how does Pennsylvania fare?&n ...

10 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads
Urban Planning

Rivers, industry and cars: a historian looks at river towns along lower Schuylkill

Historian and blogger Michael Tolle recently moved away from his home of 36 years near the Schuylkill River valley, but that doesn’t me ...

10 years ago

 A Philadelphia firefighter walks near the scene of an overnight blaze in west Philadelphia, where ice has formed from the water used to fight the fire. Bone-chilling, single digit temperatures have gripped the region. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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In case you missed it: this week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

Happy Friday! Here’s some recommended reading for your weekend. Capitol recap A bill that would let voters decide whe ...

10 years ago

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