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Politics & Policy

A surveillance camera is visible outside of a building.
Elections
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Philly puts up surveillance cameras at election warehouse after security breaches

Law enforcement officials said the theft last week appears to be a random crime, unrelated to the election.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Harrisburg International Airport, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Middletown, Pa. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
Energy
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Trump pounds fracking as a wedge issue in Pa. But if it’s not voters’ top concern, how much can it help?

Despite the focus on fracking during the vice presidential debate and elsewhere, it’s hard to find a voter in Pennsylvania who thinks it’s a big issue.

5 years ago

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Democratic candidate Amy Kennedy and U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew participate in a debate for South Jersey's 2nd Congressional District
Elections
New Jersey

Van Drew floats coronavirus conspiracy theory during debate with Kennedy in South Jersey

It was the first time GOP U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew debated Democratic challenger Amy Kennedy.

5 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney
Business
Delaware
Income Inequality

Delaware launches rapid training program to combat COVID-related unemployment

Delaware lost some 80,000 jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic. A new rapid training program aims to help workers rejoin the labor force.

5 years ago

Nancy Pelosi wearing a face mask
Elections
Public Health

In 25th Amendment bid, Pelosi mulls Trump’s fitness to serve

Just weeks before the Nov. 3 election, Pelosi said Trump needs to disclose more about his health after his COVID-19 diagnosis.

5 years ago

(David Maialetti/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Pa. House GOP leadership calls on lawmaker to resign over vulgar videos

In a since-deleted social media post, Rep. Aaron Bernstine is heard urging his son to smoke a cigar, telling him to “hit it harder, breathe in.”

5 years ago

Voters line up at Philadelphia City Hall to drop off their mail ballots
The Why
Elections
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Voting anxiety? Here’s what you need to know

How to properly fill out and send in a mail in ballot (make sure it isn't naked!), what's up with Philly's satellite election offices, security of in-person voting and more.

Air Date: October 8, 2020

Listen 16:56
(Tim Tai/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Elections
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Lawmakers mount new push to give Pa. counties more flexibility in counting mail-in ballots

County election officials say it’s the number one issue standing between them and a timely counting of votes: allowing them to begin processing mail-in ballots before Nov. 3.

5 years ago

The entrance to the editorial offices of the New England Journal of Medicine in Boston
NPR
Elections
Medicine
National

In rare step, esteemed medical journal urges voters to oust Trump

'Our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent," the medical journal's editors say in a scathing editorial.

5 years ago

Pa. Rep. Martina White; challenger Mike Doyle
Elections
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Philly Dems stop infighting, unite to flip Pa. House seat in the Northeast

Party leaders are backing Democrat Mike Doyle’s bid to oust GOP state Rep. Martina White.

5 years ago

The governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer
Delaware
Public Safety

Del. resident among 13 charged in plots against Michigan governor, police

Four of the six men had planned to meet Wednesday to “make a payment on explosives and exchange tactical gear,” the FBI said in the court filing.

5 years ago

Boxes of remdesivir
NPR
Medicine
Public Health

Ironic twist: In spring, Trump halted research key to COVID-19 drug he’s now taken

The drug, Remdesivir, emerged in part because researchers had previously tested it in China through a project whose grant was abruptly ended by the NIH.

5 years ago

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Vice President Mike Pence answer questions during the vice presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
Radio Times

Pence v. Harris: reaction and analysis

We get analysis of the vice presidential debate and how it might impact the election? Also, the latest on the Covid outbreak in the White House.

Air Date: October 8, 2020 10:00 am

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An election worker hands a sheet of
Elections
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Procrastinator’s guide to the 2020 general election in Philadelphia

A cheat sheet for what you need to know to cast your vote.

5 years ago

Donald Trump, Joe Biden
Elections
National
Public Health

Next Trump-Biden debates uncertain, though Oct. 22 is likely

With less than four weeks until Election Day and with millions of voters casting early ballots, pressure is building on Trump to turn around a campaign that is trailing Biden.

5 years ago

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