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A bartender pours a cocktail into glasses with ice cubes. (iStock)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. Liquor Control Board’s refusal to share records with state lawmaker sparks court battle

Act 39 of 2016 authorized the liquor control board to auction all expired or rescinded restaurant licenses since the year 2000.

7 years ago

Science teacher Leigh Foy (right) couldn’t find climate education materials so she and her husband, chemistry professor Greg Foy (left) designed their own.  (Provided)
Education
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. has no standards for teaching climate change in the classroom — so it might not be taught at all

Pennsylvania has started to modernize its science curriculum, including a focus on climate change.

7 years ago

Protestors and city officials gather outside the DELCORA building in Chester to protest the Delaware County Regional Water Authority’s deal with Aqua America, Inc. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delco Dems: DELCORA sale is a typical bad, backroom Republican deal

Democrats in Delaware County slammed a deal that sees the merger of DELCORA with Aqua Pennsylvania Wastewater as a deal among Republican insiders.

7 years ago

St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia (Google maps)
Health

Drexel and Tower Health reach deal to buy St. Christopher’s Hospital

Sale of the North Philadelphia hospital is part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding involving Philadelphia Academic Health, which also owns Hahnemann.

7 years ago

Magic Johnson seen on the set of ESPN's
Arts & Entertainment

Wilmington hosts ’Magic’ show for historically black colleges

ESPN’s `First Take’ broadcast from the new 76ers Fieldhouse with guest star Magic Johnson, to attract students to historically black colleges

7 years ago

(Township of Bordentown)
Courts & Law

‘Listen to what he is telling you’: Hate crime trial begins against former N.J. police chief

Prosecutors say Frank Nucera Jr. was motivated by racial animus when he allegedly slammed a handcuffed black teenager into a door during a 2016 arrest.

7 years ago

Three Mile Island
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

As Three Mile Island stops producing electricity, one local community braces for change

For those who live nearby, the possibility of the plant’s closure loomed for years.

7 years ago

Waves in South Seaside Park on Sept. 20, 2019. (Justin Auciello/WHYY)
Down the Shore
Community

N.J. officials urge extreme caution as dangerous rip currents persist

Dangerous rip currents continue to impact New Jersey due to large swells from now dissipated Hurricane Humberto.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania state Sen. Daylin Leach. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP)
Politics & Policy

Pa. Senate Dems, again, call for Leach to resign. He doesn’t plan to.

The caucus has released a final report about sexual misconduct allegations against Leach. It found “unprofessional” behavior, but no sexual harassment.

7 years ago

City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson.
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Philly taxpayers spent $75,000 on Kenyatta Johnson’s lawyer in federal probe

The city’s Law Department confirmed that it has retained outside lawyers to provide “legal services” to Councilman Kenyatta Johnson related to “an ongoing investigation."

7 years ago

WHYY's Patrick Stoner speaking with cast members from 'Downton Abbey' L-R: Allen Leech, Michelle Dockery, and Laura Carmichael (WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Downton Abbey makes the transition from TV to feature-length film

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with WHYY film critic Patrick Stoner about how Downton Abbey made the jump from TV to full-length movie.

7 years ago

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Masterman High School seniors Iman Acharya and Alina Kilcullen cheer for speakers at Philadelphia's climate strike on Sept. 20, 2019. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Community

‘If you don’t act like adults, we will’: Hundreds of youth climate strikers surround City Hall

Many school students and teachers attended the march disregarding the School District of Philadelphia’s announcement that they would be marked as an unexcused absence.

7 years ago

Climate activist Rafe Pomerance speaks at an event at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in Philadelphia on Sept. 12. (Photo courtesy of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

What longtime climate activist Rafe Pomerance wants you to know

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Susan Phillips sat down with Pomerance and asked him what he wants people to know right now.

7 years ago

Listen 5:34
Scientists have been studying the link between climate change and extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy, shown here in a NASA image, which left more than 1.3 million Pennsylvanians in the dark in 2012. (Getty Images)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Five climate change science misconceptions, debunked

Here are five commonly used myths and the real science that debunks them.

7 years ago

Cars and trucks are shown jammed on the southbound New Jersey Turnpike. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

New Jersey rolls out Real ID driver’s licenses on appointment-only basis

Starting October 2020, standard licenses will no longer work at airport security checkpoints or to enter federal buildings.

7 years ago

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