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LED lighting can save municipalities up to 30% percent on their street lighting costs. (Flickr/CC BY-SA 4.0)
Urban Planning
NJ Spotlight

Making the case for replacing N.J.’s municipal streetlights with LED lighting

Local officials, utilities among those urging BPU to adopt the lighting, which is supposed to reduce energy costs, greenhouse gas emissions.

6 years ago

AIDS Delaware hopes a new testing van will help more people get tested for HIV. (courtesy AIDS Delaware)
Health

HIV testing hits the streets in Delaware

A new van will make it more convenient for AIDS Delaware to test for HIV.

6 years ago

Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds up three fingers in reference to H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act in Trenton, NJ. (Becca Haydu for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Impeachment over, Pelosi and N.J. House Dems focus on lowering prescription drug costs

The roundtable discussion was a re-promotion of the bill H.R.3, more formally known as the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Act.

6 years ago

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9th) said “USPS Fairness Act” could help secure the future health of the agency. (Corey Ryan Hanson/Pixabay)
Courts & Law

Lawmakers Act to ease fiscal burden of retiree benefits on USPS

All members of New Jersey delegation support move in House to go back to pay-as-you-go system for retiree health benefits

6 years ago

A child died from a gunshot wound at a house in Browns Mills, New Jersey, authorities said Friday night. (NBC 10 Philadelphia)
Community

Prosecutor: Boy, 4, dead of gunshot believed self-inflicted

Authorities say a 4-year-old boy who gained access to an unsecured handgun in a New Jersey home died after an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

6 years ago

DEP Commissioner Catherine McCabe has set deadlines of up to two years for the department to propose regulations. (Bernd Klutsch/Unsplash)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

Business leaders fear climate-change regulations will add to costs, stunt growth

But DEP official says new rules will be about economic development as much as environmental protection.

6 years ago

Peter Del Borrello III’s shop at Broad and Washington has become home to an unexpected artifact: a Bible inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr.
(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Martin Luther King Jr.’s signature graces a Bible in South Philadelphia pawnshop

Peter Del Borrello III’s shop at Broad and Washington has become home to an unexpected artifact: a Bible inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Police Department’s headquarters building at 7th and Race Streets. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Ex-cop freed after years without charges in child porn probe

A former Philadelphia Police sergeant has been released after spending four years in jail without charges because he failed to unlock his hard drives for investigation.

6 years ago

In this Oct. 1, 2019, photo, Gory Rodriguez, of Starbucks, right, interviews a job applicant during a job fair at Dolphin Mall in Miami. On Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 payroll processor ADP reports on how many jobs its survey estimates U.S. companies added in December. (Lynne Sladky/AP Photo)
Money

Healthy U.S. job market: How big a political edge for Trump?

The strong job growth gives President Donald Trump more evidence for his assertion that the economy is flourishing under his watch.

6 years ago

A fire truck is parked inside Liberty Fire Station on Broadway in Camden, NJ on Thursday, February  6, 2020. (Miguel Martinez for WHYY)
Community

Fear of firefighter layoffs sparks urgent community conversation in Camden

Camden residents convened to discuss the potential layoffs of 27 firefighters. But the mayor’s office says that talk is premature.

6 years ago

(Commonwealth Media Services)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Government watchdog group apologizes for violating Pa. lobbying law

Common Cause Pennsylvania was fined $19,900 in January by the state Ethics Commission for filing an expense report 112 days after the deadline last year.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf talks to Keystone Crossroads staff at WHYY in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Wolf defends charter school cuts, doubles down on opposition to supervised injection sites

Wolf spoke with reporters as part of Keystone Crossroads' "Ask Governor Wolf" program, recorded live at WHYY just a few days after his 2020-21 budget address.

6 years ago

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Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., gather outside Saint Anselm College, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, ahead of a Democratic party debate in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

Targeting Sanders, Buttigieg in big New Hampshire debate

Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg enter as the top targets after emerging from the chaotic Iowa caucuses this week essentially tied for the lead.

6 years ago

Councilmembers Isaiah Thomas (left) and Darrell Clarke (right) with ComproTax owner Timothy Nelson. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Community

New Philly councilmember using video to shine spotlight on local businesses

Philadelphia City Councilmember Isaiah Thomas is using social media to promote Black-owned businesses during Black History Month.

6 years ago

PFT president Jerry Jordan speaks at a news conference outside Hopkinson Elementary School, which is temporarily closed. (Courtesy of Lynn Oseguera)
Education
The Notebook

Hopkinson school in Juniata closed indefinitely for more asbestos abatement

Meeting to form a facilities' "rapid response team" of unionized laborers took place on Thursday.

6 years ago

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