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Mail-in ballots from the 2021 primary are ready to be scanned by Berks Election Services. (Courtesy of Stephanie Weaver.)
Politics & Policy

Berks County reports 35 late bilingual ballots, most due to late post office delivery

Voter advocates say more has to be done to ensure Spanish-speaking voters are protected.

5 years ago

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick
Courts & Law

As sex abuse lawsuit window closes, long road for victims

Since the law went into effect in December 2019, more than 1,000 suits have been filed in the state, with about two-thirds naming religious entities as defendants.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (center), CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia Michael Balaban, and Councilmember Allan Domb (right) light a Hanukkah menorah
Community

Political, religious groups join together in Philly to ‘shine a light’ on antisemitism

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among the five states with the most antisemitic incidents recorded in 2020, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

5 years ago

Kindergarteners wear face masks while sitting in a classroom
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pennsylvania Supreme Court says school mask mandate can stay for now

Pennsylvania’s school mask mandate was set to expire on Saturday. Now, the state Supreme Court said the mandate can stay in place while a lawsuit plays out.

5 years ago

Victor Martinez sits at a table with a microphone
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Pennsylvania Latinos work to turn huge population gains into political muscle, but still face barriers

Advocates are turning to the redistricting process to secure political power, but legal and systemic roadblocks pose a significant challenge.

5 years ago

Dr. Mehmet Oz poses for a photo
Politics & Policy

Dr. Oz, now a Pennsylvania Senate candidate, wants to ‘reignite our divine spark’

Oz, who lived in New Jersey until very recently, registered to vote as a Republican in Pennsylvania in early 2020 using his wife’s parents’ address.

5 years ago

Etowah Indian Mound State Historic Site in Cartersville, Georgia. An Indigenous Education Camping Trip. (Captured by Tavis Sanders - Red Tail Hawk)
Community
Love Now Media

Indigenous Education: Exploring the history beneath our feet

There is history right beneath our feet, within the very land we stand on. Much Indigenous history is hidden in plain sight.

5 years ago

A gas well pad in the Tiadaghton State Forest. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

State report shows strong natural gas production growth in 2021

After a bruising year in 2020, natural gas production and prices in Pennsylvania are on the rise this year.

5 years ago

A living reef being built along the Barnegat Bay shoreline
Community
NJ Spotlight

‘Biggest of its kind’: Living shoreline project to save Barnegat Bay beachfront

It’s hoped that steel cages, rocks, shells and 70 million juvenile oysters will finally turn the tide on the massive erosion threatening beaches and beachfront houses.

5 years ago

Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt wears a mask while sitting at a table
Politics & Policy

Philly’s only Republican city commissioner leaving to take over good government group

In 2020, Schmidt attracted vitriol from his own party when he defended Philly’s election process against baseless fraud allegations.

5 years ago

A woman receives an AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination
Health

Omicron brings COVID-19 vaccine inequity ‘home to roost’

The more COVID-19 spreads among unvaccinated populations, the more possibilities it has to mutate and potentially become more dangerous, prolonging the pandemic for everyone.

5 years ago

Pro-Trump insurrectionists storm the Capitol
Courts & Law

Appeals court to weigh Trump arguments to withhold Jan. 6 records

Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Trump’s claims that he could exert executive privilege overriding Biden, noting “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not president."

5 years ago

Stanislav Jaracz experiments with plastic extraction
Courts & Law

How a lawsuit against TerraCycle shows the limits of recycling trash in the U.S.

Critics say the way we recycle doesn’t work with plastic waste, which the U.S. produces more of than any other country, sending most of it to landfills.

5 years ago

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PECO truck in the foreground, PECO worker in the background
Money

PECO rates are rising as the temperature dips. A cold winter is expected

Philadelphia area residents will see jumps in their heating and electric bills. The Public Utility Commission warns against "sticker shock."

5 years ago

A father and his children pose for pictures after getting backpacks with school supplies at a visit with a local Delaware health care provider. (Courtesy of Jewish Family Services of Delaware)
Community

Two dozen refugees from Afghanistan and elsewhere settling in Delaware, more on the way

Refugees arriving in Delaware from Afghanistan and elsewhere are getting a new start in the First State.

5 years ago

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