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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

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

In boost for Democrats, Pa. Supreme Court dramatically overhauls state’s congressional map [updated]

Analysts think the court-drawn map will give Democrats a shot at winning at least half of Pennsylvania’s 18 districts.

7 years ago

Congressional districts in Southeastern Pennsylvania as they were adopted in 2011 and then ruled unconstitutional by the Pa. Supreme Court in January 2018.  (Google Maps)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Outside expert advises Pa. Supreme Court in drawing congressional district map

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is expected to decide Monday where Pennsylvania’s congressional boundaries will fall for the next two election cycles.

7 years ago

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Court will now decide fate of Pa. congressional map — as Wolf, Republicans can’t find compromise

The Pa. Supreme Court will now decide the shape of the state’s 18 congressional districts, as Democratic ...

7 years ago

Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Timeline: The battle over Pennsylvania’s congressional district map

Pennsylvania’s congressional map has been recognized nationally as having some of the starkest examples of gerrymandering in the countr ...

7 years ago

David B. Thornburgh, president and CEO of the Committee of Seventy, says the ultimate goal of the project is to reinvigorate how Pennsylvanians think about representative democracy. (Image courtesy of University City Science Center)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

New group asks: Can Pa. citizens play their way to better district maps?

Draw the Lines is making professional digital mapping tools available to the public and creating a competition for mapmakers.

7 years ago

Teacher Jon Kimmel in his classroom at Westtown School in Chester County, Pa. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

How difficult is it to redistrict Pennsylvania? ‘Not very,’ say area eighth-graders

Pennsylvania’s contentious congressional map has spurred disagreement among the state judiciary, lawmakers, and the governor. Yet students came up with several solutions.

7 years ago

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Gov. Tom Wolf, left, gives his budget address at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Wolf administration rejects GOP congressional map proposal [updated]

The interactive map above shows the boundaries of Pennsylvania’s 18 congressional districts as propos ...

7 years ago

Listen 1:18
Top GOP leaders proposed court-ordered changes to Pennsylvania's congressional district map.  Governor Tom Wolf is reviewing the proposed changes.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Interactive map: GOP proposal for new Pa. congressional map sparks debate about fairness, partisanship

Some political analysts have raised red flags about partisanship within the proposed map.

7 years ago

Kayakers paddle past downtown Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River in this September 4, 2015 photo. (AP File Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pittsburgh sheds distressed city status as fiscal health improves

On Monday, Pittsburgh became the second city to exit Act 47, the state’s oversight program for financia ...

7 years ago

Republican lawmakers proposed a new congressional district map ordered by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

GRAPHIC: Pa. Republican leaders propose new congressional map on eve of deadline

UPDATE: Hours before the state Supreme Court-imposed deadli ...

7 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati. (AP file Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

State government standoff: Pennsylvania’s ‘constitutional crisis’ over court’s redistricting decision

Friday is the court-imposed deadline for the Pennsylvania legislature to agree on a new ...

7 years ago

Listen 0:00
Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. legislature will miss redistricting deadline, but negotiations may continue

Republican leaders in Pennsylvania’s House and Senate said Thursday evening it is impossible for them to pass a new congressional map before the state Supreme Court’s Friday.

7 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
Courts & Law

Pa. Supreme Court details violation of voter rights in full opinion striking down congressional map

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that the state’s congressional district map deprives voters’ of their right to “free and equal” elections.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Gov. Wolf emphasizes education, but scales back funding ambitions during final first term budget address

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf asked the General Assembly Tuesday for another $100 million in basic education spending and $20 million for special education.

7 years ago

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An election official places a sign as voters line up outside a polling place November 2016 in Fogelsville, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Third of Pa. delegation decamping U.S. House, leaving six seats up for grabs

Pennsylvania will have at least six open congressional seats in the upcoming midterm election as one incumbent after another has decided not to run again.

7 years ago

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