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Politics & Policy

 The Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
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Pennsylvania

State lawmakers face hurdles to expanding economic development program for cities

State legislators have been pushing to increase the number of CRIZ designations, but financial and political factors could keep these str ...

12 years ago

Pelosi, Christie to attend ribbon-cutting ceremony at prisoner re-entry center

Drug addiction is drawing Gov. Chris Christie, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and former Govs. Jim McGreevey and Tom Kean together. ...

12 years ago

 Tony Auth (Image courtesy of The Philadelphia Foundation)

Tony Auth: An appreciation

What I’ll miss most – and there is so much that I’ll miss about Tony Auth – is the joy. The buoyant joy th ...

12 years ago

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Change in Pa. laws sought after woman gets jail term for giving daughter ‘abortion pills’

A Montgomery County lawmaker wants to see Pennsylvania reform its abortion laws. State Sen. Daylin Leach said Wednesday that abort ...

12 years ago

 Marian Schneider represents voters in the case (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Voting machine challenge goes before Pa. Supreme Court

Pennsylvanians who dislike the electronic voting machines used in much of the state had their day in court on Wednesday.   ...

12 years ago

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Sustainability

Six policies that help Philadelphians stay in their homes

12 years ago

Parent Gretchen Elise Walker and former Philadelphia public school grad Erica Gendall-Conrad protest outside of Governor Corbett's office in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Philly education advocates, kids press for more Pa. school funding

As Philadelphia students returned to school, children’s advocates rebuked Gov. Tom Corbett for not spending more on education. ...

12 years ago

Future of Medicaid alternative uncertain in Pa.

A plan by Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett to provide subsidized health insurance to hundreds of thousands of residents could die shortly after ...

12 years ago

 This Aug. 19, 2014 file photo shows flash flood waters from the overrun Skunk Creek flood I-10 in northwestern Phoenix. Global warming is here, human-caused and can already be considered dangerous, a draft of a new international science report says, warning that it is increasingly likely that climate change could be irreversible. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday sent governments a final draft of its synthesis report, which combines three earlier, gigantic documents by the Nobel Prize-winning group. There is little in the report, that wasn’t in the other more-detailed versions, but the language is more stark and the report attempts to paint a bigger picture of the problem caused by the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas. (Matt York/AP Photo, file)

A summer beset by crisis, or simply drenched in media?

Ukraine. ISIS. Beheadings. Ebola. Gaza. Ferguson.  This seems a particularly grim time in our world. Yet is it, really ...

12 years ago

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 Voting machine operator George Stuski reads a newspaper as people cast their votes at the Mummer Museum in Philadelphia, Pa.  (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)

Pa. to hear electronic voting challenge

Pennsylvania voters have cast ballots electronically for years, but a voter-rights group plans to argue before the state’s highest ...

12 years ago

Obama defends decision to delay immigration action

President Barack Obama is defending his decision to delay taking executive action on immigration until after November’s congression ...

12 years ago

Anti-federal message to be delivered by horseback

A rural Nevada county will send a message the old-fashioned way to Washington about what it calls federal overreach on public lands: by h ...

12 years ago

White House asks for $58M for Ebola drugs

The White House is asking Congress for $58 million above current levels to speed the production of promising drugs to fight Ebola and to ...

12 years ago

 The U.S. Supreme Court building.(AP file photo)

States ask U.S. Supreme Court for definitive ruling on same-sex marriage

Delaware and Pennsylvania have signed on with 13 other states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the issue of same-sex marriage once ...

12 years ago

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Government Accountability

Progressive coalition looks to promote ‘development without displacement’

12 years ago

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