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Keystone Crossroads

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Claudia Sherrod (left) and Haley Dervinis (right) in front of their homes in Point Breeze.
Keystone Crossroads
Community

The surprising truth behind the racial dynamics of gentrification in Philly

While it may be harder to tell, data suggests white neighborhoods in Philly are actually gentrifying faster than black neighborhoods.

7 years ago

Listen 7:37
Allentown Mayor Edwin Pawlowski, pictured in this Thursday, July 27, 2017 file photo, announced his resignation days after being found guilty of federal corruption charges. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Allentown mayor resigns office following corruption conviction

Democrat Ed Pawlowski said Thursday he is leaving the office he's held for a dozen years, effective 5 p.m. Friday.

7 years ago

Listen 4:33
Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati, center, hopes to quash a school funding lawsuit brought by districts and advocates. (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

GOP lawmakers seek to stop Pa. education funding lawsuit at preliminary hearing

The lawsuit challenging Pa.’s school-funding scheme continued its slow climb through the legal system with oral arguments before the Commonwealth Court in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. property tax opponents gear up for another fight in the Statehouse

A bipartisan group of state senators is plotting another attempt at legislation that has become something of a white whale in Pennsylvani ...

7 years ago

Dick Thornburgh
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Nuances of Pa. redistricting pit Thornburgh against Thornburgh

The battle over how to handle Pennsylvania’s congressional maps has even political families divided.

7 years ago

After more than a decade spent in a state financial oversight program, Pittsburgh regained its fiscal independence last month. More than a dozen Pennsylvania cities remain in the program.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

In leaving state oversight, Pittsburgh says it’s prepared for the risk

On a Monday morning last month people packed the Pittsburgh mayor’s conference room to witness the city’s successful transition to fi ...

7 years ago

From left to right: Diego Uribe, Ben Shaman, Jake Richard, and Quinn Berger evalute Pennsylvania's new congressional district map compared to the 2011 version at the Westtown School in West Chester, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Despite landmark Pa. court decision, subjectivity remains in congressional mapmaking process

Now that districts have been completely overhauled, some big questions remain: just how much gerrymandering is too much?

8 years ago

Listen 6:28
Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, who is facing corruption charges, walks to the federal courthouse in Philadelphia during a break in a pretrial hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Pawlowski has denied accusations that he accepted more than $150,000 in campaign contributions in exchange for city contracts.
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski found guilty on 47 of 54 felony counts

A federal jury has found Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski guilty of corruption.

8 years ago

Democratic congressional hopeful Laura Quick in between calls on a recent afternoon. Quick, who’s running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the new 9th Congressional District, was trying to find volunteers to help her get signatures for her nominating petition in areas where she hadn’t been campaigning until after Pennsyvlania Supreme Court released the state’s new district map.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Candidates statewide scramble to adjust to Pennsylvania’s new congressional map

This year has been anything but predictable in Pennsylvania.

8 years ago

Listen 4:34
 Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski arrives at the federal building in Philadelphia, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Allentown mayor’s corruption trial in hands of jury

Democratic Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski faces charges including fraud, bribery, attempted extortion and lying to the FBI.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's new congressional map as drawn by the Pa. Supreme Court.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. GOP lose bid to get state court to halt district map

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is declining to delay implementation of a new congressional map the justices put in place last week.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's new ongressional map as drawn by the Pa. Supreme Court after it found the previous version an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Federal judges decline to immediately throw out court-drawn congressional map

A three-judge panel declined to temporarily hold up implementation of the map put in place by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

8 years ago

(Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Un-sanctuary: Some Pa. police departments pull closer to ICE

It’s normal for police departments to cooperate with U.S. law enforcement, but ICE has repeatedly attempted to enlist local police in carrying out immigration arrests.

8 years ago

Listen 5:25
Advocates supporting the lawsuit that eventually overturned the state's congressional map rallied outside Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman's office in Centre County in October 2017.  (Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. GOP piles on lawsuits in bid to avoid new congressional map

After lawmakers didn’t meet the court’s short deadline to fix it, justices redrew the map themselves. And analysts expect it will give Democrats stronger representation.

8 years ago

A map of the 7th congressional district as drawn in 2011. The district incorporates most of Delaware County and portions of Chester, Montgomery, Berks and Lancaster Counties. (Dan Gleiter/pennlive.com)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

New congressional districts in Philly suburbs could help Democrats win in D.C.

Pennsylvania’s new court-ordered congressional map has thrust the commonwealth into the national spotli ...

8 years ago

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