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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

 Photo collage from Keystone Crossroads staff and AP images.
Keystone Crossroads

Best of Keystone Crossroads 2014

As 2014 comes to an end, we want to share with you some of our best work, so far. About six months ago we launched ...

10 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads

Study quashes Pa. school district consolidation as means to lower taxes

A new Pennsylvania report dismisses the notion th ...

10 years ago

 Trivia: Can you identify this former central Pennsylvania landmark? Tell us in the comments below or on Twitter @PaCrossroads. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

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

Here’s a list of recommended reading for your weekend: In anticipation of the holidays, let’s keep it simple this week ...

11 years ago

Keystone Crossroads

Putting a number on forgone Pa. property taxes

A report by Pennsylvania’s auditor general finds that some counties are losing hundreds of millions of dollars from organizations d ...

11 years ago

Keystone Crossroads

Eva Gladstein on affordable housing, college savings programs, and exploring Philadelphia neighborhoods

Eva Gladstein is executive director at the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity. ...

11 years ago

 Home on Sixth Street and Washington Avenue, 2009 (LaToya Ruby Frazier)
Keystone Crossroads

Braddock looks to art to raise it up but the art it inspires isn’t buying it, yet

A look at some recent work about Braddock, the documentary “Braddock, America” and a book of photographs called “The No ...

11 years ago

 ‘This Place Matters’ on the marquee of the shuttered Hanover State Theatre.  (Image courtesy of The Evening Sun)
Keystone Crossroads

Series examines the struggle to revitalize Hanover’s Center Square

The story of Hanover, Pennsylvania, a small borough of about 15,000 residents between Gettysburg and York is familiar to towns across the ...

11 years ago

 Tek Nepal (right) washes spinach at his Mount Oliver home with his wife Radhika Nepal last winter. Tek Nepal is ethnically Nepalese. He was resettled in California as a refugee, moved to Tennessee, then Pittsburgh, which has a lower cost of living and boasts an increasingly growing Bhutanese-Nepalese population. Pittsburgh wants to encourage more immigrants to settle in the city. (Ryan Loew/WESA)
Keystone Crossroads

Immigrants in Pennsylvania: the numbers and the programs to keep ‘em coming

Compared to national numbers, Pennsylvania has fewer immigrants, they tend to be more educated, and a smaller percentage come from Latin ...

11 years ago

 Ammar Nsaif, originally from Iraq, immigrated to Pittsburgh about two years ago. He's an electrical engineer, but he's had trouble finding a job in his field. (Photo courtesy of Ammar Nsaif)
Keystone Crossroads

Pittsburgh looks to immigrants as economic development tool

Pittsburgh wants to attract 20,000 new residents over the next 10 years, and wants immigrants to be part of the equation. When Amm ...

11 years ago

Listen
 Trivia: can you guess the city? (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

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

Here’s ...

11 years ago

 A woman dances in front of a giant wooden bird on fire at the annual Phoenixville Firebird Festival.  This year, vandals ignited the sculpture the night before the festival, but the community came together to build another bird. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Video: Community rallies to give Phoenixville festival new life

To residents of Phoenixville the bird and festival mean more than just a winter bonfire. Inspired by the myth of the Phoenix it symbolize ...

11 years ago

 High school students in the city of York protest the potential state takeover and forced charterization of their school district. (Emily Previti/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads

Judge will decide York schools’ fate

A judge is scheduled to rule on the state’s petition for a receivership Monday. The Pennsylvania Department of Education has ...

11 years ago

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 The research team asked participants to visit the GeoDeliberator website every day during the one-week community issue review process. Gary Miller said he logged in two to three times a day. (Kate Lao Shaffner/WPSU)
Keystone Crossroads

State College pilots web project to boost civic engagement

What stops people from being engaged in your community? Whatever the reason, it can be tough to get residents involved in local matters. ...

11 years ago

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 Part three in a three-part series on the state's bridges.
Keystone Crossroads

The state of Pennsylvania’s bridges, Part 3: Inspecting and managing them more efficiently

Agencies tasked with bridge maintenance rely on visual inspections to assess safety. Some say new technology can help them better manage ...

11 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads

Pennsylvania getting more money to help homeless vets

More veterans in Pennsylvania are expected to get housing assistance and support services this year. More veterans in Pennsylvania ...

11 years ago

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