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Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

Gov. Wolf pushes for LGBTQ protections in face of ACA changes

A bill to extend the commonwealth's civil rights protections to LGBTQ people has repeatedly stalled in the Pennsylvania Legislature.

7 years ago

MRI scan or magnetic resonance image of head and brain scan. Close up view
Science

How genetic is addiction? Camden researchers are collecting brains to find out

To better understand opioid-use disorder, Camden researchers are starting a biobank to study brain and blood samples of people who’ve died of overdoses.

7 years ago

Willow Zef volunteers at the César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden, established by Philly Socialists in 2012 near Lawrence and Norris streets. (Angela Gervasi for WHYY)
View Finders
Urban Planning

At Philly’s community gardens, growing frustration over their future

Volunteers work to keep gardens reclaimed from dumping grounds as green spaces open and available for neighborhood residents.

7 years ago

At the kitchen table, Summer Mills goes over documents accumulated in the past months while dealing with dental issues on April 12, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Health
Broke in Philly

For adults on Medicaid, getting dental care is an uphill battle

Pennsylvania curtailed benefits in 2011, and adults now either pull diseased teeth or pay out of pocket because procedures like root canals aren’t covered.

7 years ago

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A bicyclist rides past Pennsylvania State University's shuttered Beta Theta Pi fraternity house Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, in State College, Pa. Centre County, Pa., District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller announced Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, that more charges have been filed against fraternity brothers after investigators recovered deleted surveillance video footage recorded before the Feb. 4, 2017, death of 19-year-old Tim Piazza, of Lebanon, N.J., after a night of heavy drinking.
Courts & Law

Trial starts over video deletion related to Penn State frat death

A former Penn State fraternity brother erased security camera footage from the night a pledge died because he knew it would be damaging.

7 years ago

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, and mayors from across the state discuss gun violence prevention on May 28, 2019 in Trenton. (Edwin J. Torres/ Governor's Office)
Politics & Policy

N.J. Gov. Murphy promises continued fight against gun violence amid spate of shootings

Many of New Jersey’s top political leaders met Tuesday to find solutions to reduce crime.

7 years ago

Anson Williams starred as Potsie on the sitcom Happy Days. After three decades producing and directing, Williams returns to acting in a theatre production in Wilmington, Delaware. (Courtesy of Delaware Theatre Company)
Arts & Entertainment

Happy Days actor Anson Williams returns to acting in Delaware performance

Anson Williams is in Delaware doing something he hasn’t done in decades: Acting. He joins Didi Conn and Sallie Struthers on stage in Wilmington in the play “Middletown.”

7 years ago

2013 Punkin Chunkin (Chuck Snyder for WHYY)
Community

Longtime Delaware tradition Punkin Chunkin moves to Illinois

Almost three years after a woman was injured during the annual pumpkin-launching competition, Punkin Chunkin is leaving Delaware for Illinois.

7 years ago

Children in a classroom
Education
NJ Spotlight

Feds order N.J. to find better ways to resolve special education disputes

New Jersey has been given three months to improve its much-criticized process for settling disputes involving students in special education.

7 years ago

The owner of Nam Son Bakery behind the counter of the South Philadelphia shop. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

New homes to replace one of South Philly’s pioneering Vietnamese shopping plazas

A residential development targeting young professionals is slated to replace a beloved Vietnamese bakery and other shops on the corner of Washington Avenue and 16th Street.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Police investigate a shooting in October 2018. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Philly putting ‘dozens’ more cops on the street this summer as murders, shootings rise

Murders and shootings are up in Philly over this time last year. The police department will deploy dozens of additional officers to patrol the streets this summer.

7 years ago

Centre County introduced new Electronic Systems & Software voting machines in the primary on May 21, 2019. (Min Xian/WPSU)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Here’s who makes money from the voting machine requirement for Pa. counties

As of early May, 18 counties picked ES&S at an estimated total cost of $48 million.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Phillies' Odubel Herrera, right, steals second base past Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Keston Hiura during the second inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Courts & Law

Phillies OF Herrera arrested in domestic case, put on leave

The commissioner's office put Herrera on leave Tuesday, a day after his arrest on an assault charge at the Golden Nugget casino.

7 years ago

Robert F. Smith speaks at Morehouse College (BBC News/Youtube)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

A good deed goes through ‘Black enough’ blender

Philanthropist Robert F. Smith spread a balm over the wounds that accumulate as a result of the day-to-day indignities that go hand-in-hand with being Black in America.

7 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., responds to reporters as she departs after meeting with all the House Democrats, many calling for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump after his latest defiance of Congress by blocking his former White House lawyer from testifying yesterday, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
National Interest
Politics & Policy
National Interest

Video fakery and the high cost of lies

Donald Trump's fans have had a tough time combating Pelosi, so apparently their only recourse was to manipulate video footage to smear her as semi-nuts.

7 years ago

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