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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

File photo: Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building along with roses in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads

Why is Pennsylvania called a commonwealth?

Ever wonder about something you see or hear in the region that you wish our reporters would explore? Now’s your chance! ...

8 years ago

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 Debbie DeSimone stands in the second floor hallway of the last home that needed to be renovated on Rose Street. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Listen to Grapple: Living in the aftermath of deindustrialization

Travel around Pennsylvania, and you’ll find many small to mid-sized cities that used to be thriving industrial centers. Travel a ...

8 years ago

 Principal David Crichton with students at Rose Avenue Public School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Ian Willms/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Are Ontario public schools a model for Pennsylvania?

Listen to the complete series. Just a two hour drive from the city of Erie, Ontario has become internationally heralded as a leade ...

9 years ago

 Heather Hoover sits on her porch while her children, Emmalie, 6, Hannah, 3, and Jared, 1, play in front of their home in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. Hoover, a mother of eight, hopes to move to a place with more space for her children to play. She said it seems like the town is falling apart. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Listen to Grapple: The end of coal country and what it means

Under President Donald Trump, there’s been a lot of talk lately about whether the coal industry can come back. And while there ...

9 years ago

 Local hip-hop artist Nakuu produced a song called  “Brothers;” as a way to get people talking about racial tension in York, Pennsylvania. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

In wake of high-profile bias incidents, how York is responding to racial tension

The borough of West York and the York County School of Technology are among the public agencies grappling with racial tension. In ...

9 years ago

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 Lynn Nottage won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for her play “Sweat.” (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Keystone Crossroads

Playwright Lynn Nottage gives back to the people of Reading

New York playwright Lynn Nottage spent two years researching and talking to people in Reading, Pennsylvania.  for “Sweat”, her g ...

9 years ago

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 Mike Smith, left, grew up in York, and works with kids like Liz Herrera-Reynoso, 14, center, to deal with obstacles they face growing up here. As part of his job, Mike runs an after school college prep program, the York Temple Guard program and spends time counseling families on where to send their kids to high school. (Jessica Kourkounis/ For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

In York, college prep includes grappling with racial tension

In a classroom at William Penn High school, college acceptance letters cover a bulletin board taking up almost an entire wall. The ...

9 years ago

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 Schuylkill County homeowner Ron Boltz has become a crusader in the fight to eliminate Pennsylvania school property taxes. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Push to eliminate Pa. property taxes would have major implications for schools, prioritizing homeowners

School property taxes are often a sore subject for Pennsylvania homeowners, who’ve seen rate increases grow faster than the state ...

9 years ago

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Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse for a hearing about his appeal on his child sex-abuse conviction in Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 29, 2015. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads

Proactive child abuse prevention gets increased attention as fatality rate rises in Pa.

Lawmakers and law enforcement groups are asking for $9 million for home visit programs.  ...

9 years ago

 More than 30 percent of Pennsylvania's water systems aren't as resilient as they need to be, according to the Bureau of Safe Drinking Water. Pittsburgh's system has suffered from lack of investment. In the city’s Lawrenceville neighborhood, a Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA) crew, uncovered and fixed a leaking water main. From left, foreman Mike Gigliotti, Anthony Colapietro, and Eugene Tyler. Joe Ganzer, not pictured, manned the excavator. (Margaret J. Krauss/WESA)
Keystone Crossroads

In Pennsylvania, cities struggle to provide safe, clean drinking water

More than 30 percent of the state’s water systems aren’t as resilient as they need to be.  At either end of Lavarna Way, ...

9 years ago

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 Members of the Mettiki Mine Rescue team prepared for one of the mine rescue competition’s timed events, the live burn: teams contain and then extinguish a fire in the hangar. They wear flame-resistant suits, fire-rated gloves, and breathing apparatuses. (Margaret J. Krauss/WESA)
Keystone Crossroads

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

New podcast episodes have dropped; joblessness is making the white working class sick; and Pennsylvanians’ love affair with Wawa an ...

9 years ago

Keystone Crossroads
Urban Planning

Mapping Pennsylvania’s Urban Waterfronts

9 years ago

 Jeff Kirkland is a local historian who recently founded the Historical African American Preservation Society in the city of York, Pennsylvania. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

When grappling with racial tension: Is York ‘everytown’?

York County is one community where racial tension flared around the ...

9 years ago

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 Customers fuel up at the Wawa on Bartram Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Convenience store wars: The economic impact and fandom of Pa.’s Sheetz and Wawa

Good paying jobs, local philanthropy and a sense of community unite Sheetz and Wawa — even as their fans divide Pennsylvania.   ...

9 years ago

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 Roslyn Place, in Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood, is one of the last wooden streets in the United States. It was recently designated a City Historic Site, which protects it from alterations. Philadelphia's wooden street, S. Camac Street, is covered with asphalt but is expected to be restored in 2018. (Margaret J. Krauss/WESA)
Keystone Crossroads

A tale of two cities’ wooden streets

Separated by 303 miles and a layer of asphalt, two of the nation’s last wooden streets have had very different journeys.  ...

9 years ago

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