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Planet Money is on a quest to explain the economy with playful storytelling and deep dive, roll up your sleeves journalism. How I Built This host Guy Raz talks to entrepreneurs and idealists who take us through the often challenging journeys they took to build their businesses.

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FILE: Katie Brennan, (left), then-chief of staff at the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, listens to a question as she testifies before the Select Oversight Committee at the Statehouse, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, in Trenton, N.J.  (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
New Jersey

Katie Brennan files notice of intent to sue New Jersey over hiring her alleged rapist

Brennan says her allegations that she was sexually assaulted by a campaign staffer to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy were ignored. Then he was hired to work for the state.

6 years ago

A natural gas drilling pad in Pennsylvania.(Lindsay Lazarski/for WHYY)
Energy
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. drillers must pay millions in outstanding impact fees, court rules

Natural gas companies must pay millions of dollars in outstanding impact fees to the state, following a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling.

6 years ago

Paul Frame (left) and his husband Jose
Immigration
LGBTQ
Pennsylvania

For Chesco man arrested in immigration interview, an uncertain future remains

Jose "Ivan" Noe Nuñez Martinez and his husband have been savoring what can feel like borrowed time, after he was arrested in Philadelphia last year.

6 years ago

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A sign on Riegelsville Road in Holland Township, New Jersey, shows local opposition to the PennEast pipeline. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
StateImpact Pennsylvania

New Jersey Attorney General says federal judge erred in PennEast Pipeline ruling

New Jersey’s attorney general says PennEast Pipeline Co. can’t legally sue the state for access to more than 40 parcels of protected land.

6 years ago

In this Aug. 14, 2018, file photo, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro walks to the podium to speak about a grand jury's report on clergy abuse in the Roman Catholic Church during a news conference at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. Over the past four months, Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. have released the names of more than 1,000 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children in an unprecedented public reckoning spurred at least in part by a shocking grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania, an Associated Press review has found. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, File)
National
Public Safety
Religion

A reckoning is underway in U.S. Catholic Church

Recently disclosed accusations date back six or seven decades, with the oldest from the 1910s in Louisiana.

6 years ago

The York County Prison is where most immigration detainees in Pennsylvania are held after ICE arrests. (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Immigration
Pennsylvania

Federal government shutdown halts most Pa. immigration court hearings

The federal government shutdown — caused in part by disagreements over immigration policy — is halting down immigration court hearings across Pennsylvania.

6 years ago

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Sheila Reid, whose son, Jerame, was shot and killed by police in 2014, has urged Gov. Phil Murphy to sign a bill requiring New Jersey to investigate all police-involved deaths. She’s sitting in front of a poster made to remember him, that spells his name the way it’s pronounced. (Ang Santos for WHYY)
New Jersey

Murphy mum on plan AG opposes for state probes of police-involved fatalities

Attorney General Grubir Grewal says forcing local prosecutors off cases and sending in state officials would slow investigations and anger the public.

6 years ago

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Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain. (John Moore/Getty Images)
NPR
Addiction

Opioid-makers face wave of lawsuits in 2019

Thousands of state and local governments are demanding that companies like Purdue Pharma, Walmart and Rite-Aid compensate them for the costs of the opioid crisis.

6 years ago

The federal website where consumers can sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is shown on a computer screen in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo)
NPR
Health Care

Affordable Care Act can stay in effect while under appeal, judge says

The federal judge in Texas who ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional earlier this month said that the law can remain in effect while under appeal.

6 years ago

While canvassing in Olney, Tarik Harris crosses the street to survey Lindley Playground, which he says is known to be a location for selling drugs. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

A night with Philly’s ‘violence interrupter’ teams who offer services to curb bloodshed

The strategy to use former drug dealers, gang members and others with violent pasts to help broker peace in troubled neighborhoods is now set to expand in Philly.

6 years ago

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Jesse Osborne waits for a ruling at the Anderson County Courthouse on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. Osborne, a boy who was 14 when he was charged in the shooting death of his father at their home and a first-grader on a South Carolina elementary school playground will be tried as an adult, a judge ruled Friday. (Ken Ruinard/The Independent-Mail via AP, Pool)
Criminal Justice
Kids

School shooter’s case to test life sentence for juveniles

A South Carolina school shooting will soon become a test case for court rulings that restrict life-without-parole sentences for juveniles.

6 years ago

A group of two dozen activists briefly blocks traffic during a rally outside the Philadelphia district attorney’s office in December. The group is urging District Attorney Larry Krasner not to challenge a Common Pleas Court ruling that allows Mumia Abu-Jamal to file an appeal of his murder conviction. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters urge Philly DA Krasner to let appeal process proceed

Pam Africa, who runs the International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, said the Philadelphia district attorney has not done enough to help Abu-Jamal.

6 years ago

Mumia Abu-Jamal leaving a court hearing
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Judge: Mumia Abu-Jamal can reargue appeal in 1981 Philly police slaying

Judge Leon Tucker ruled that a former justice should have recused himself because of comments he made as a prosecutor about police killers that suggest potential bias.

6 years ago

(Public domain image)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Transportation

Vehicle ‘no wake zone’ regulation expands at N.J. shore

Another Jersey Shore municipality has adopted a "no wake zone" regulation to reduce damage to properties during flooding. 

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Supreme Court. (Image via Google Maps)
Addiction
Gender
Pennsylvania

Pa. Supreme Court rules mothers’ drug use in pregnancy isn’t child abuse

The court's main opinion issued Friday says the law's definition of a child doesn't include fetuses or unborn children, and it says victims of perpetrators must be children.

6 years ago

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