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File photo: Philadelphia City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart (Lindsay Lazarski/WHY)
Behavioral Health
Government
Philadelphia

City Controller’s audit finds Philly’s behavioral health contractor overspent, lacked accountability

The audit of Community Behavioral Health was the first look in 20 years at spending for the HealthChoices Behavioral Healthcare Program.

4 years ago

Joe Biden speaks from a podium at the White House
Homelessness
Housing
Income Inequality

Biden to allow eviction moratorium to expire Saturday

The moratorium was put in place put in place last September by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

4 years ago

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Energy
Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

After years of debate, New Jersey agrees to new solar incentives

New Jersey Board of Public Utilities President Joseph Fiordaliso said the new program will help advance the Murphy administration’s goal of 100% clean energy by mid-century.

4 years ago

The moves by the Justice Department are part of the Biden administration's push to demonstrate it is on guard amid new voting restrictions that Republican-led states have proposed and enacted. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
NPR
Elections
Government Accountability

The Justice Department puts states on notice about election audits and voting changes

The Justice Department is putting states on notice about their obligations under federal law as GOP-led efforts to conduct reviews of the 2020 election intensify.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the Lehigh Valley operations facility for Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pa., Wednesday, July 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Economic Development
Government
Infrastructure

Infrastructure deal: Senate ready to move ahead on $1T bill

“This deal signals to the world that our democracy can function,” Biden said in a statement. “We will once again transform America and propel us into the future.”

4 years ago

Craig Snyder smiles with his arms crossed
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Pennsylvania

Philly Republican makes bid for U.S. Senate on anti-Trump agenda

Synder’s thinking is simple: If five or more GOP candidates compete for the Trump voters, and one goes for the other 40%, “that’s a winnable race.”

4 years ago

Jim Kenney speaks from a podium, with other elected officials behind him
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Philly moving forward with grants program to fund community groups in anti-violence fight

Philadelphia is planning to add $20 million to anti-violence efforts, targeting small groups who have not received funding in the past.

4 years ago

A waiter takes the order of customers inside a restaurant
New Jersey
Public Health

New Jersey officials now ‘strongly recommend’ wearing masks indoors

Atlantic, Burlington, and Ocean counties have experienced substantial spread of COVID-19 in the last week, and would fall under the CDC’s new masking guidance.

4 years ago

A close-up of a Pennsylvania congressional map.
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Pennsylvania

Will this round of Pa. redistricting be another all-out war? It’s all in the details

Being willing to split towns and counties might actually be more fair, mapping experts argue — even though it goes against old school conventional wisdom.

4 years ago

U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn becomes emotional as he testifies before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2021 at the Canon House Office Building in Washington, DC.
(Photo by Oliver Contreras for The New York Times)
National
Public Safety

‘This is how I’m going to die’: Police officers testify on Jan. 6 insurrection

The four officers gave emotional, occasionally angry, accounts of the attack, in which they were beaten and verbally abused as the mob of Trump’ supporters overwhelmed them.

4 years ago

U.S. Capitol Police sergeant Aquilino Gonell; Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges, and U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn are sworn in to testify during the opening hearing of the U.S. House (Select) Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/Pool
Radio Times

What we learned from the House hearing on the Jan. 6th insurrection

We discuss yesterdays powerful testimony by Capitol and D.C. police officers about their harrowing experience defending the Capitol from the insurrectionists on January 6th.

Air Date: July 28, 2021 10:00 am

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Delaware
Environment
Government

Yearslong effort to fund Delaware clean water program finally pays off

Years after it was first proposed, state lawmakers have finally approved legislation to fund better protections for Delaware’s water infrastructure.

4 years ago

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International
Public Health
Travel

With COVID-19 surge, U.S. to keep travel restrictions for now

The rise and prevalence of COVID-19 variants, especially the delta mutation, has caused the Biden administration to tread slowly about increasing transatlantic travel.

4 years ago

State Rep. Gerald Brady smiles for a portrait
Delaware
Elections
Race & Ethnicity

Delaware state rep. won’t run for re-election after using anti-Asian slur in email

Del. State Rep. Gerald Brady says he’ll finish the rest of his two-year term, but won’t run for re-election next year after using a racial slur in reference to Asian women.

4 years ago

President Biden speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House
NPR
Government
Immigration

Pressure is building on Biden to do more for asylum-seekers and migrants

President Biden will give remarks Monday to the nation's largest Latino civil rights group. He's under pressure to make good on his promises to fix the immigration system.

4 years ago

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