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Pa. House panel to weigh Kane impeachment plan

A resolution calling for the impeachment of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane campaign is up for review by a legislative commit ...

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 In this April 30, 2014 file photo, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, front, issues a statement to the media on the Execution of Clayton Lockett as Oklahoma Secretary of Safety and Security Michael C. Thompson, back, listens from the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City. The botched execution of Lockett, and the gruesome details of him writhing and moaning before dying of a heart attack, has outraged death penalty opponents, raised the potential of more court challenges and received international attention. (Alonzo Adams/AP Photo, file)

The problem with executions is not just the quality of the execution

Last week, the people of Oklahoma tried to kill someone. As you may have heard, they made quite a hash of it. The execution ...

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Does immigration contribute to stagnant wages, unemployment and underemployment? The latest jobs report.

As always, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report for April was rel ...

12 years ago

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Streets wants feedback on winter performance, introduces text alerts

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Where do Dem candidates for Pa. governor stand on energy, fracking?

Pennsylvania remains the only drilling state that doesn’t tax the drillers. As budget deficits sap public education, all four Democ ...

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 An overpass at the end of Waverly Road, built in 1951, handles more than 40,000 cars per day on the Schuylkill Expressway.  (Nathaniel Hamilton/For NewsWorks)

At a crossroads, can Pa. act like a real commonwealth?

Pennsylvania is crumbling, both literally and figuratively. Pennsylvania has more structurally deficient bridges, both in raw numb ...

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Why did 58k Americans die in the Vietnam War, and 3 million Vietnamese? ‘Embers of War’

The thesis of Fredrik Logevall’s Pulitzer Prize winning history, “Embers of War,” is that the die for the tragedy of th ...

12 years ago

Where do Dem candidates for Pa. governor stand on crime, prisons, and marijuana?

Criminal justice isn’t one of the top issues for Democrats running in this years gubernatorial primary in Pennsylvania, but that ...

12 years ago

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Breaking up with the School Reform Commission will be hard to do

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first grant their wishes. Two out of three Philadelphians want to see an end to the School ...

12 years ago

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 Mayor Nutter reading the executive order that ends ICE detainers as long as the person being released has no first or second degree felonies. (Nathaniel Hamilton/For Newsworks)

Nutter’s executive order on ICE detainers will put more violent criminal aliens on Philly’s streets

When Arizona tried to enforce its own standards on illegal immigration, that state was told immigration is exclusively a federal matter. ...

12 years ago

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Federal Reserve 2014 Reinventing Older Communities Conference

12 years ago

 Hong Nguyen attempted to vote on voting day but her voting booth didn’t have translator to assist with the process. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Asian American voters not getting language help at Philly polls, complaint says

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund has filed a complaint against the City Board of  Commissioners over what it says ...

12 years ago

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Philly police will no longer hold immigrants on behalf of ICE

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has publicly signed an executive order that the city will no longer keep immigrants in police custody a ...

12 years ago

 Democratic primary candidate for governor Rob McCord reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar to preschool students at the Children's Village Early Learning Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

McCord wants to nearly triple Pa. spending on early education

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob McCord stopped by a Philadelphia nursery school on Wednesday to stress Pennsylvania’s need f ...

12 years ago

Fracking dialogue has been a classic case of nobody listening

Politics are Newtonian. That is, they follow ol’ Isaac’s Third Law of Motion. To wit: For every action there is ...

12 years ago

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