Politics & Policy

The Treasury Department says it has started taking “extraordinary measures” as the government has run up against its legal borrowing capacity of $31.381 trillion.

The State Department program is called the Welcome Corps. The agency aims to line up 10,000 Americans who can help 5,000 refugees during the first year of the program.

Former Lt. Gov. Mike Stack has a big base in Northeast Philadelphia and is joining a field of roughly a dozen candidates.

After winning the November 2022 election, Josh Shapiro gets to assemble a cabinet. His picks include Al Schmidt, Val Arkoosh, and Pat Browne.

The new speaker of the Pennsylvania House said Tuesday that the first meeting of a bipartisan work group he assembled got off to a good start.

The legislation would enable eligible towns to circumvent the cap — essentially allowing them to bid for inactive licenses in another town.

Shapiro will be the first governor of Pennsylvania since 1966 to be elected to succeed a member of his own party.

The Rev. Bernice King said leaders — especially politicians — too often cheapen her father’s legacy into a “comfortable and convenient King” offering easy platitudes.

The incoming Democratic governor had transition advisors sign NDAs, and isn’t sharing which private donors are paying for his inauguration.

The BBEx Network on Sunday brought together Black and brown professionals from across Philly to hear from some of the mayoral candidates directly.

WHYY and NewCORE present this year’s Conversations of King, a free, virtual event, streaming live on the WHYY News Facebook page Monday at 1 p.m.

In addition to running for re-election and passing a budget, council will take a look into the problems hiring city workers.

Supporters say the goal is to restore the public trust in state government.

The fast-moving revelations have placed the president under the investigation of a special counsel and ignited Republican criticism.

President Joe Biden has made a historical pilgrimage to what he calls “America’s freedom church” to mark Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.