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Claire DeMatteis is leaving her post as Delaware corrections commissioner. Monroe B. Hudson Jr. has been nominated to succeed her. (State of Delaware)
Delaware
Economic Development
Incarceration

Delaware’s first female prisons chief leaving to oversee spending of $2 billion in COVID-19 stimulus money

Claire DeMatteis is moving to a new job after guiding the Department of Correction through a tumultuous four-plus years, since a prison riot left a guard dead.

4 years ago

Interim Camden Mayor Vic Carstarphen, at right, who is running in the June 8 primary, shares a podium with US Rep. Donald Norcross, brother of South Jersey political power broker George Norcross, at a June 2 event to announce a $35 million grant to rebuild Ablett Village, a dilapidated Camden housing project. (Photo by April Saul for WHYY)
Elections
New Jersey

Gov. Murphy officially endorses interim Camden Mayor Carstarphen in Tuesday’s primary

Carstarphen is favored by South Jersey Democratic power brokers, such as insurance executive George Norcross.

4 years ago

(Thibault Camus/AP Photo)
Media
Politics
Public Safety

Facebook suspends Trump accounts for 2 years

Facebook also plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that automatically exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site.

4 years ago

Signs for Republican candidates for governor dot a roadside in Toms River, N.J. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Elections
New Jersey

Many N.J. Republicans still on the fence as a crowded primary for governor draws near

In the Republican stronghold of Ocean County, many GOP voters said they are still weighing their options with Tuesday’s primary just days away.

4 years ago

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Gerald Welty sits the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol  as he waits to hear debate on voter legislation in Austin, Texas, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Elections
Government Accountability

Trump’s grip on GOP sparks fears about democratic process

Trump loyalists who falsely insist he won the 2020 election are running for top election offices in several swing states.

4 years ago

Yvetta Hill-Robinson, of the Friends of Overbrook Park Library, joined other library backers Wednesday demanding that City Council restore and increase Free Library of Philadelphia funding. (Abdul R. Sulayman / The Philadelphia Tribune)
Government
Government Accountability
Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Tribune

Free Library supporters demand $15M budget boost

Supporters of the Free Library of Philadelphia are demanding the Kenney administration and City Council restore and boost funding for the 54-branch system.

4 years ago

Police tape marks off a crime scene near Olney Transportation Center
Employment
Gun Violence
Philadelphia

How to replace aggression with job opportunities: City Council looks at ways to curb the violence

As Philadelphia struggles with continuing violence, councilmembers heard how employment and entrepreneurship could be key to preventing it.

4 years ago

A worker heads into JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo.  A ransomware attack on the world's largest meat company is disrupting production around the world just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipeline.  (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Radio Times
Crime
Technology

Cybersecurity and the growing threat of ransomware attacks

What do the recent ransomware attacks on the world's largest meat production company and a U.S. oil pipeline reveal about our cybersecurity and the growing threat?

Air Date: June 3, 2021 10:00 am

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An illustration of cash, in which the cash slowly dissipates into thin air
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Taxes
Spotlight PA

Bill would force Pa. to post online how lawmakers spend millions in tax dollars each year

The move comes after an investigation by Spotlight PA and The Caucus into how taxpayers shell out millions each year for perks but are largely unaware of that spending.

4 years ago

HUD Secretary Marsha Fudge chats with Ablett Village resident Maria Gonzalez at the announcement of the the CHOICE grant on June 2, 2021; to the left of Fudge are US Rep. Donald Norcross and interim Camden Mayor Vic Carstarphen. (Photo by April Saul for WHYY)
Housing
Income Inequality
New Jersey

‘A beautiful building’: HUD grants Camden $35M to overhaul public housing complex

The money will be used to tear down what officials called Camden’s last public housing project and replace it with modernized, mixed-income housing units.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden gestures while speaking from behind a podium
Elections
National

Biden prioritizes U.S. voting rights law as restrictions mount

Republican legislators in state capitols across the nation are pushing what experts say is an unprecedented wave of bills aimed at restricting access to the ballot box.

4 years ago

Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors
Elections
National
Pennsylvania

Arizona GOP election audit draws Pa. Republican politicians

Pennsylvania Sens. Doug Mastriano and Cris Dush, and Rep. Rob Kauffman are making a pilgrimage to Phoenix to check out the state Senate GOP’s partisan audit of the election.

4 years ago

This Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 image shows a white supremacist carrying a Nazi flag into the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va. (Steve Helber/AP Photo)
Radio Times
Explainers
Politics
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

“Sounds Like Hate”: White supremacist hate groups

The number of white supremacist groups rose 55% during the Trump presidency. How do people get pulled into extremist hate groups? And how can family and friends get them out?

Air Date: June 2, 2021

Listen 49:44
On May 25, Camden mayoral candidate Elton Custis explains his candidacy to resident Betty Sharp in the Yorkship neighborhood of the city. After speaking to Custis, Clark, a retired social worker, said,
Elections
New Jersey

Camden mayor’s race pits 3 challengers against the Democratic machine

Camden voters choose the next mayor Tuesday. The question: Can any of the challengers be the first in decades to beat the Democratic machine’s candidate?

4 years ago

Philadelphia city councilmember and Chair of the Children and Youth Committee Helen Gym joined city leaders in asking for at least 50 million dollars in the city budget to keep recreational centers open later and provide counseling and jobs for young people as part of the Youth Powered Anti-Violence Agenda, announced at a press conference at Hawthorne Recreation Center in South Philadelphia on June 1, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
Public Safety

‘We have no time to waste’: City lawmakers call for more funding for anti-violence efforts

A group of city lawmakers is asking the Kenney administration to spend at least $50 million on anti-violence efforts designed to keep young people safe from gun violence.

4 years ago

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