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Voters wait in line outside a polling place in Philadelphia.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Poor People’s Campaign bolstered by 2016 data as it urges voter participation in 2020

In Pennsylvania, if 55% of low-income eligible voters who didn’t turn out in 2016 had voted, the outcome could have been different for the state’s 20 Electoral College votes.

6 years ago

Sesame Place
Community
NBC10

Police: Man punches Sesame Place worker who reminded him to wear mask

The teen suffered a jaw injury and a damaged tooth. He was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Middletown on Sunday and underwent surgery on Monday.

6 years ago

A protester carries a sign in Italian that reads
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

Contro Colombo: It’s time to honor our Italian ancestors by removing racist monuments

Not all Italian Americans want statues of Christopher Columbus to represent their familial history.

6 years ago

Mail-in ballot
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. legislature’s delays could result in chaos for election officials and voters in November

“If they get too far into the weeds or attempt to drop in other fixes now, my fear is nothing will get done.”

6 years ago

Maori Karmael Holmes, founder and executive director of BlackStar Film Festival
Arts & Entertainment

BlackStar Film Festival finds a new home at Philly’s Annenberg Center

Festival creator Maori Karmael Holmes has been hired to bring cinema back to the Annenberg Performing Arts Center.

6 years ago

Residents meet in South Camden on August 6 to compile petitions they've circulated and plan strategy in an effort to return nonpartisan voting to the city. (Photo by April Saul for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Petition drive would bring back nonpartisan elections to Camden

Activists say having a primary in a city mostly full of Democrats and independents doesn’t make sense. The primary turns into the main election.

6 years ago

A sign on a building marks the offices of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh submitted a charge to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday that publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block
Community

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom votes overwhelmingly to strike

Union members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette voted overwhelmingly to go on strike Monday after years of stalled contract negotiations.

6 years ago

A homeless encampment at 21st and Ridge Avenue
PlanPhilly
Community

Sharswood residents and #OccupyPHA clash over protest encampment

Sharswood residents say the encampment of people experiencing homelessness is slowing down progress in the neighborhood.

6 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Three Mile Island operator, surrounding communities to scale back emergency planning for shuttered site

The company that owns Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 reactor will scale back its emergency planning starting in January.

6 years ago

About 150 people gathered outside City Hall in Philadelphia for an anti-gun violence rally on Monday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘Where’s the outrage?’ Philly leaders rally after another weekend of shootings

After at least two dozen people were shot in Philly over the weekend, including two young boys, about 150 people rallied at City Hall calling for action.

6 years ago

Ofo Ezeugwu is the CEO and founder of Whose Your Landlord. (Abdul R. Sulayman/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Mobile platform partners with companies to launch rent relief program

Ofo Ezeugwu, the CEO and founder of Whose Your Landlord, has partnered with Walmart and other companies on a rent relief program.

6 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney
Money

Delaware offers renters, homeowners $40 million in COVID-19 housing aid

State residents struggling to make rent or mortgage payments due to the coronavirus pandemic will be able to get assistance through two programs.

6 years ago

A person runs on a pathway surrounded by trees.
Health

Pennsylvania warns of crowds at parks, suggests alternatives

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has posted an “overcrowding alert" saying some parks have been turning people away and closing overflow parking.

6 years ago

A couple in protective masks walk past the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Friday, April 3, 2020. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Museum of Art announces September reopening

One of the last of the cultural institutions on the Ben Franklin Parkway to reopen, the museum will have been closed for almost six months.

6 years ago

National Guard tends to COVID-19 patients
Community

N.J. coronavirus recovery: New mandatory benchmarks for long-term care facilities

The Department of Health is establishing new mandatory benchmarks based on state, CDC and CMS guidelines.

6 years ago

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