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File photo: New Jersey State Capitol building in Trenton. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
Business
Economy
New Jersey

N.J. to offer $25 million in grants to ‘microbusinesses’ with up to 5 employees

New Jersey’s smallest businesses are the target of the state’s latest economic relief effort related to the coronavirus.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania Sen. Sharif Street speaks at the Olney Transportation Center
Elections
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Sen. Sharif Street is running for U.S. Senate, and he’s doing it ‘old-school’

Street, 46, is planning to formally launch his exploratory committee next Friday, April 9.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden delivers a speech from a podium
Energy
Environment
Infrastructure
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Biden’s climate-focused infrastructure plan geared to curb U.S. carbon emissions

The plan, which Biden unveiled Wednesday in Pittsburgh, includes money for projects to reduce greenhouse gases in transportation, electricity and housing. 

4 years ago

Traffic is seen near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City, N.J.(Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Radio Times
Infrastructure
Politics

Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bill

President Biden just unveiled his plan to fix America's crumbling infrastructure.

Air Date: April 1, 2021 12:00 am

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks from a podium at the White House
NPR
Immigration
International
National

Biden administration considers overhaul of asylum system at southern border

The plan the Biden administration is considering is based largely on the one authored by Meissner, who is now a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.

4 years ago

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, seen here at the Pentagon last week, announced the military's new policies on Wednesday, International Transgender Day of Visibility. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
NPR
LGBTQ
Military
Social Justice

Pentagon releases new policies enabling transgender people to serve in the military

The Pentagon announced new policies on Wednesday that undo the Trump-era rules that effectively banned transgender people from serving in the military.

4 years ago

Activists hung caution tape around City Hall in Philadelphia on March 26, 2021, to bring the crime scenes they witness in their neighborhoods to city officials’ work place. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Gun Violence
Public Safety

Philly to unveil long-awaited update to its plan to fight gun violence in April

City health officials said the new plan will take a more preventative approach.

4 years ago

An aerial view of Trenton, New Jersey.
Infrastructure
New Jersey
Taxes

‘No SALT, No Deal’: N.J. reps want Trump-era tax cap removed

Two N.J. U.S. Reps. say they won’t agree to tax changes to pay for President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan unless the cap on SALT deductions ends.

4 years ago

Police officers try to push back pro-Trump insurrectionists trying to break through a police barrier
NPR
National
Public Safety

2 Capitol police officers sue Trump for injuries sustained during Jan. 6 riot

Two U.S. Capitol police officers argue former President Donald Trump is responsible for the injuries they received during the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Infrastructure
Pennsylvania
Taxes

Biden announces huge infrastructure plan to ‘win the future’

The president travels to Pittsburgh on Wednesday to unveil what would be a hard-hatted transformation of the U.S. economy as grand in scale as the New Deal.

4 years ago

United Steelworkers members strike outside a metal supplier in Westmoreland County.
Business
Economic Development
Pennsylvania

As Biden arrives in Pittsburgh to propose investments in American manufacturing, steelworkers are on strike

Picketers at nine Allegheny Technologies, Inc. facilities are demanding wage increases and better health care offerings. They hope Biden is paying attention.

4 years ago

Chester County election workers process mail and absentee ballots
Elections
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania election law reforms won’t be ready for primary

County elections officials will have to keep waiting for a long-sought change to add a pre-election period to process absentee and mail-in ballots.

4 years ago

Voters wait in a long line in the cold to cast their vote on election day Tuesday, November 3, 2020, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Newark, Del. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Delaware
Elections

Delaware moves closer to automatically registering voters at DMV

Delawareans would be automatically registered to vote after visiting the Division of Motor Vehicles under a bill approved by the State Senate Tuesday afternoon.

4 years ago

New Jersey voter casts ballot
Elections
Government
New Jersey

‘A big day for democracy’: Murphy signs N.J. in-person early voting into law

The state now requires counties to hold nine days of early, in-person machine voting ending the Sunday before Election Day in November.

4 years ago

Former President Barack Obama addresses the service during the funeral for the late Rep. John Lewis
NPR
History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

In push to end filibuster, Democrats point to its civil rights-era history

Organizers say abolishing the filibuster is a way to follow through on electoral promises. But Republicans insist the maneuver isn't racist — and note its past use by Dems.

4 years ago

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