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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

In 2003
Keystone Crossroads

A 1940s documentary about housing and poverty in Philadelphia, and progress since then

 The 1941 Academy Awards were notable for several reasons. “Citizen Kane” failed to win Best Picture, which inste ...

9 years ago

Construction of multi-family units is at a 30-year high
Keystone Crossroads

Pittsburgh joins other Pa. cities with city-wide tenants union

Residents concerned by lack of available, quality housing. The Pittsburgh Tenants Union has been “a long time coming,” ...

9 years ago

 Laura Lloyd teaches third graders in class at Crescent Town Elementary School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Ian Willms/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s best reads from Pa. cities

Canada: more than just America’s baseball cap.  Oh, Canada…education It’s really cold ...

9 years ago

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks with members of the media after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York
Keystone Crossroads

Cities prepare for President Trump

The new administration may have different priorities than the leaders of major U.S. cities. The last eight years were pretty good ...

9 years ago

 The D.L. Johnson and the coal barge it’s transporting approach the Newell Toll Bridge, which spans the Ohio River connecting Newell, W. Va. and East Liverpool, Ohio. (Ryan Loew/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s best reads from Pa. cities

Lawmakers, law-breakers and one very jolly trolley.  Law and order: Pennsylvania According to recently released number ...

9 years ago

The 6th district vestibule in Philadelphia is a designated safe trade stations. (Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Pennsylvania seeks safer ways to buy and sell online

Allentown announces new safe trade station. Allentown’s Mayor Ed Pawlowski and Police Chief Keith Morris announced recently that ...

9 years ago

Dustin Frazee works alongside a barge full of coal before he and the rest of the crew of the D.L. Johnson begin moving it east along the Ohio River toward Pittsburgh. (Ryan Loew/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Video: For a towboat deckhand, life on the river means long days but lots of pride

Watch Amherst Madison deckhand Ryan Gilleran describe life on a towboat transporting barges full of coal, and other materials, ...

9 years ago

Captain Matthew Baumgartner checks a monitor in the wheelhouse of the D.L. Johnson as it moves a coal barge along the Ohio River.  (Ryan Loew/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Locks and dams: How the condition of waterway infrastructure threatens economic growth

Moving goods on barges is big business, but the lock system those barges rely on teeters on the brink of failure. Deckhands Jeremy ...

9 years ago

Suburban classification map of Pennsylvania. (Courtesy of Stockton Williams
Keystone Crossroads

Despite ‘urban renaissance’ suburbs continue to dominate in U.S.

Suburbs come in all varieties and they’re all still holding strong against cities. The traditional narrative goes like this: ...

9 years ago

File image of Zach Hassinger at an apartment in downtown Lewisburg
Keystone Crossroads

Ideas Worth Stealing: Why this program for ex-offenders is working better in rural areas

Re-entry programs focused on housing aren’t uncommon, exactly. But it’s rare for local public housing authorities to be invol ...

9 years ago

Rep. Lou Barletta
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s best reads from Pa. cities

That mid-holidays lull is still a busy time in Pennsylvania. Dollars and sense Cities always have needs, ...

9 years ago

On September 8
Keystone Crossroads

Thousands of coal miners could lose benefits unless Congress acts

As coal declines, some companies are filing for bankruptcy, endangering miners’ health care and pensions. Time is running out fo ...

9 years ago

A woman prepares to shoot heroin in a public park. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Looking at addiction as a health crisis

The U.S. Surgeon General landmark report on addiction calls for a culture shift. For the past 20 years, Rep. Gene DiGirolamo, R-Bu ...

9 years ago

A drone captures videos and still images of an apartment building in Philadelphia.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke
Keystone Crossroads

Why the debate over drones all goes back to avian suicide

The Federal Aviation Administration is due to release rules for drone operation over populated areas in a couple weeks. Interest is high ...

9 years ago

Community First Fund received tax credits that could go toward redevelopment projects in Reading
Keystone Crossroads

Pa. gets $310 million in tax credits to attract investment in distressed communities

The federal New Market Tax Credits program authorized $7 billion in tax credits nationwide.  The holiday season came a little ...

9 years ago

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