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Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Hardy Williams. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

State Sen. Williams makes supervised injection site issue in Philly mayor’s race

At a contentious forum, Democratic state Sen. Anthony Williams said he's against opening a place where people could use drugs under medical supervision.

8 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Biden Courage Awards Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in New York. Responding to allegations of inappropriate behavior, the two most powerful women in Delaware's Legislature say Biden has always been respectful in their presence. (Frank Franklin II/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Amid allegations, Delaware’s top female Dems say Biden has always been ‘personable, respectful’

Responding to allegations of inappropriate behavior, the two most powerful women in Delaware's Legislature say Biden has always been respectful in their presence.

8 years ago

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Princetel, a fiberoptic rotary joint manufacturer, wants to move into the former Roebling factory, in Trenton, N.J. The move could create 400 jobs. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Urban Planning

A fiber optics company hopes to bring high-tech manufacturing back to Trenton

Redevelopment of the historic John A. Roebling and Sons site would bring high-tech manufacturing back to Trenton, says Princetel CEO. Officials are considering the plan.

8 years ago

Students at Philadelphia's Parkway Center City Middle College were asked to raise their hands if they were affected by gun violence at an April 2018 forum. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

New study pushes Pa. to embrace trauma-informed education

Even as school districts across the country have become more aware of how trauma can affect learning, there’s been little concrete policy on the state or federal level.

8 years ago

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service says the wildfire in a remote area near Spring Hill Road in Burlington County's Penn State Forest broke out early Saturday afternoon. (Courtesy of Amy Miller Shaman)
Community

N.J. fire that burned 11,000 acres in Pine Barrens ‘started by humans’

No injuries were reported in the weekend blaze in South Jersey, but massive clouds of smoke visible for miles put communities in the Pine Barrens and beyond on edge.

8 years ago

Anti-Brexit demonstrators with an effigy of British Prime Minister Theresa May near College Green at the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, April 1, 2019. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)
Politics & Policy

U.K. Parliament rejects alternatives to May’s Brexit deal

Lawmakers seeking a way out of the country's Brexit morass on Monday rejected four alternatives to the government's unpopular European Union divorce deal.

8 years ago

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, meets with South Korea Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha at the State Department, in Washington, Friday, March 29, 2019. (Cliff Owen/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Secretary of state talks immigration, Venezuela at Army War College

 At the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told military officers from the U.S. and its allies to be ready to face emerging threats.

8 years ago

A group of two dozen activists briefly block traffic during a rally outside the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office in December, 2018. The group called on DA Larry Krasner to not challenge a Common Pleas court ruling that allows Mumia Abu-Jamal to file an appeal. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Courts & Law

Judge in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case blasts Krasner for trying to block latest appeal

Pennsylvania Supreme Court is weighing whether to take convicted killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new appeal and potentially grant him a new trial.

8 years ago

Madison Zezzo, center, speaks about the Combat Online Predators Act flanked by U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (left) and U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey and Bob Casey (right). (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Bucks County cyberstalking case inspires U.S. measure to get tougher on offenders

A measure that aims to toughen penalties for cyberstalkers has bipartisan backing from U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey and Bob Casey and U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.

8 years ago

Central American migrants wait for food in El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors.  (Cedar Attanasio/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

More U.S. officers may be reassigned to deal with border crush

The inspectors are instead being put to work processing migrants, taking their applications for asylum and transporting them to holding centers.

8 years ago

Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, on May 2. Sinkholes that opened in the area prompted the state's Public Utility Commission to order that an existing pipeline nearby, the Mariner East 1, be shut down until it could be determined that the sinkholes didn't threaten its safety. PUC on May 3 approved a re-start of Mariner East 1. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Chester County plaintiffs settle class-action suit with Sunoco over Mariner East

Sunoco denied the claims of negligence during Mariner East pipeline construction on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County.

8 years ago

(Margo Reed/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Community
Broke in Philly

Arts center in city’s poorest neighborhood teaches culture and salvation

It’s a sometimes unavoidable byproduct of the work done at such places as Taller Puertorriqueño that a child is taught art and culture so well that he's inspired to move away.

8 years ago

Crews are shown welding a pipeline connecting to a natural gas well in northern Pennsylvania. The Mariner East 2 plan would build two natural gas pipelines across southern Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

N.J. Natural Gas wants to spend big on pipeline, other projects

New Jersey Natural Gas is seeking approval for investments that would increase residential customers’ monthly bills.

8 years ago

In this March 26, 2019 photo, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., presides at a meeting directing the attorney general to transmit documents to the House of Representatives relating to the actions of former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, on Capitol Hill in Washington.  The House Judiciary Committee will ready subpoenas this week for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full Russia report. This, as the Justice Department appears likely to miss an April 2 deadline set by Democrats for the report’s release. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Democrats to prepare subpoenas for full Mueller report

The chairmen of several House committees asked for the full, unredacted report last week after Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summary.

8 years ago

Area lawmakers, religious leaders and students gather Monday at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia to stress the importance of an accurate census count. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Philly leaders, Pa. officials vow to help ensure accurate census count

The census count will determine how much the Philadelphia area reaps in federal funding — and whether the region's number of congressional delegates will change.

8 years ago

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