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Politics & Policy

Chester Country election workers check ballots
Elections
Pennsylvania

Questions remain about Pa. GOP’s election ‘investigation’

Senate Republicans last week hired Envoy Sage onto a $270,000 contract to help carry out the undertaking, fueled by pressure from former President Trump and his allies.

4 years ago

A sign reads Philadelphia Gas works
Energy
Environment
Government Accountability
Sustainability

PGW emails show involvement in drafting bill that runs counter to climate goals

The city opposes the measure, now making its way through Harrisburg, that would tie the hands of Pennsylvania municipalities regarding electrification.

4 years ago

Listen 2:22
Judge Lori Dumas
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Law

With incumbent’s concession, Dems have flipped a Pa. Commonwealth Court seat

Dumas will become the sole person of color on the 10-member court. That makes her just the second out of 31 judges on all three Pennsylvania appellate courts.

4 years ago

Storage is shown at the Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery in Detroit, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The world is awash in oil, there's little demand for it and we're running out of places to put it. That in a nutshell explains this week's strange and unprecedented action in the market for crude oil futures contracts, where traders essentially offered to pay someone else to deal with the oil they were due to have delivered next month.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Energy
Environment
Infrastructure

U.S. to release 50 million barrels of oil to ease energy costs

The move is aimed at global energy markets, but also at U.S. voters who are coping with higher inflation and rising prices ahead of Thanksgiving and winter holiday travel.

4 years ago

A tanker ship being loaded with LNG
New Jersey
Public Safety
NJ Spotlight

New Jersey towns join push to block ‘bomb trains’

Critics say that transport of the fuel in tank cars — dubbed “bomb trains” — through densely populated areas exposes populations to a risk of catastrophic explosions.

4 years ago

Rev. Al Sharpton speaks outside Legislative Hall in Dover Monday afternoon in support of legislation that would open up police misconduct records to public scrutiny. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Policing
Politics

Rev. Sharpton pushes for Delaware police accountability bill in Dover rally

Efforts to make police misconduct records more available to the public in Delaware got a boost from civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton Monday afternoon.

4 years ago

Republican Sean Parnell launched his U.S. Senate campaign on May 11. (Lucy Perkins/90.5 WESA)
Government
Pennsylvania
Politics
WESA

GOP Senate candidate Sean Parnell ends campaign after losing custody bid

Hours after losing a bid to obtain sole custody of his three children, Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Sean Parnell announced he is suspending his campaign.

4 years ago

Hold for Business Photo-- Swayne Hall--A Norfolk Southern freight train hauling coal makes it way through downtown Pittsburgh Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Environment
Government
Pennsylvania

Largest coal-fired power plants in Pa. to close after new wastewater rule

Those that intend to close include two of Pennsylvania's largest coal-fired power plants, Keystone and Conemaugh outside Pittsburgh.

4 years ago

An
Elections
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

What we know about the firm hired by the GOP to review Pennsylvania’s 2020 election

Taxpayers will pony up $270,000 to Envoy Sage, which says it has exposed “fraud among non-governmental organizations.” Little else is known about the group.

4 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman stands at a podium
Elections
Pennsylvania
Politics

A Pa. state lawmaker hasn’t become governor in 70 years. Jake Corman hopes to be the exception

Harrisburg insiders haven’t fared well in bids for governor in recent decades. Jake Corman is trying to break that mold.

4 years ago

A protester carrying a rifle leaves the  the Kenosha County Courthouse after speaking with Kenosha County Sheriffs Department officers, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021 in Kenosha, Wis., during the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial. Rittenhouse is accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a protest over police brutality in Kenosha, last year. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Gun Violence
National

In Kenosha and beyond, guns become more common on U.S. streets

Across much of the United States, it has become increasingly acceptable for Americans to walk the streets with firearms, either carried openly or legally concealed.

4 years ago

File photo: President Joe Biden speaks during the
Environment
Government
International

U.S. climate pledge faces test in Senate with global impact

More than most political battles, what happens will have a lasting impact on Americans and all their neighbors on Earth.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden pardons Peanut Butter, the national Thanksgiving turkey, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021
Animals
Government
National

Biden says pardoned turkeys will get ‘boosted,’ not ‘basted’

In remarks full of jokes, Biden said the turkeys, named Peanut Butter and Jelly, were selected based on their “temperament, appearance and, I suspect, vaccination status.”

4 years ago

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is losing a key ally on the Postal Service's Board of Governors. (Jim Watson/AP)
NPR
Government
Government Accountability

Biden nominates new chair for Postal Service Board, ousts DeJoy’s allies

The nominations could spell the end of Louis DeJoy's controversial tenure as postmaster general.

4 years ago

FILE - This photo shows Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa in Washington on July 26, 1959. The decades-long odyssey to find the body of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa apparently has turned to a former New Jersey landfill below an elevated highway. The FBI obtained a search warrant to
History
National
New Jersey

FBI looks at land near N.J. landfill for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains

The decades-long odyssey to find the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa apparently has turned to land near a former New Jersey landfill.

4 years ago

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