Politics & Policy
Pigeon shoot in Reading reignites efforts to ban mass killing of birds
Live pigeon shoots continue in Pennsylvania, much to the frustration of some animal activists. A shoot is scheduled to run through this w ...
13 years ago
Pennsylvania officials willing to extend temporary block on voter ID
Lawyers in the trial over the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s voter identification law are in some agreement the requirement sh ...
13 years ago
Legislators seeking to rewrite tax code visit Philadelphia
Sen. Max Baucus of Montana and Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan stopped in Philadelphia today to stump for federal tax reform. Camp and ...
13 years ago
Bill Scranton dies at 96, distinguished former governor of Pa.
Governor Corbett has ordered all Pennsylvania flags lowered to half-staff in honor of former Governor Bill Scranton who died last night a ...
13 years ago
A pinch-hitter this week, batting from the right side
Last week I spent on vacation in sunny South Carolina. (We went far south to get cool; temperatures were 10 degrees cooler in the Charles ...
13 years ago
Same-sex marriage remains a delicate political issue in Pennsylvania
Wednesday night, in what was probably a first, the register of wills & clerk of orphans court of Montgomery County appeared on the ...
13 years ago
ListenPa. GOP chair Gleason defends voter ID remarks
The chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party told an interviewer last week that the state’s voter ID law helped the GOP during ...
13 years ago
Trial of Pa. voter ID law entering second week
The constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s voter-identification law will get a second week of scrutiny as the trial judge hears allega ...
13 years ago
Analysts say Corbett faces uphill climb for re-election in Pa.
Next year’s race for governor is fast approaching. Polls show, and election watchers say, incumbent Tom Corbett faces steep odds in ...
13 years ago
Restoring the shore is about emotions as well as engineering
Restoring the Shore is not just about flood maps, building codes and economic multipliers. It’s about my friend Ted and his ...
13 years ago
Reflections on Detroit’s bankruptcy from a former Detroiter
My family lived in Detroit from 1955 to 1956, during which time I attended second grade in a public elementary school. That was the first ...
13 years ago
Turnover continues in Corbett Administration
Another chief of staff is leaving Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s Administration. Steve Aichele is on the way out just about ...
13 years ago
The namesake of “gerrymandering” turns 269 today
Elbridge Gerry, born today in 1744, was an American Revolutionary leader, Declaration of Independence signer, Constitutional delegat ...
13 years ago
Pa. AG defends refusing to defend same-sex marriage case
Attorney General Kathleen Kane insists she is not violating her oath of office in deciding not to defend Pennsylvania’s marriage la ...
13 years ago
Rethinking the Shore forum zeroes in on better planning, leadership
It was a night for expressing hopes, and the skepticism that undermines them. About 60 people gathered at WHYY Monday night for th ...
13 years ago