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Politics & Policy

Vice President Mike Pence speaks  at a “Cops for Trump” campaign event at the police station Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Greensburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Pennsylvania
Policing

‘You won’t be safe,’ Pence warns in Pennsylvania campaign

Vowing to bring “peace and security to cities across America," Mike Pence on Thursday carried the Trump campaign's message of law and order to exurban Pennsylvania.

6 years ago

State Rep. Russ Diamond (R-Lebanon) speaks during a House Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee meeting
Housing
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania

Pa. coronavirus recovery: Gov. Wolf seeks censure against lawmaker for ‘misinformation’ 

“There are no words that adequately describe my disdain for the antics Rep. Diamond displayed in his latest missive,” said Governor Wolf.

6 years ago

Indoor dining amid coronavirus pandemic
Down the Shore
Food & Drink
New Jersey
Public Health

Jersey Shore freeholder to Murphy: Reopen indoor dining

Murphy has expressed worry that a rising number of COVID-19 cases are being traced to indoor house parties, adding that they endanger the restart of other indoor activities.

6 years ago

(Yong Kim/Philadelphia Inquirer)
LGBTQ
Pennsylvania
Public Health
Spotlight PA

Pa. lawmaker mimics health secretary’s call for trans acceptance to defend not wearing mask

Rep. Russ Diamond has been one of the loudest opponents of Dr. Rachel Levine's order requiring most people, barring a health issue, to wear a mask while in public.

6 years ago

Representative John Lewis thanks the crowd gathered at St. Joseph's University on April 16th 2018 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's death.

Watch live: Funeral service for the late John Lewis in Georgia

The funeral follows a week of honoring the longtime lawmaker and civil rights icon following his death on July 17.

6 years ago

COVID-19 data collection
NPR
Government Accountability
National

Irregularities in COVID reporting contract award process raise new questions

The administration awarded a contract for a COVID-19 database to TeleTracking Technologies using a process reserved for innovative research.

6 years ago

President Trump
NPR
Elections
National

Trump floats delaying the election. It would require a change in law

The president does not have the power himself to move the date of the election, which was set by an 1845 federal law.

6 years ago

Defaulting renter with face mask receives letter giving notice of eviction from home on wooden table. (BackyardProductions/BigStock)
Radio Times
Housing
Politics

The coming unemployment and eviction crisis

The worst economic effects of the coronavirus might still be ahead. We'll talk about the realities of evictions and unemployment and the government response.

Air Date: July 30, 2020 10:00 am

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Rep Jim Jordan
NPR
Media
Technology

4 key takeaways from Washington’s big tech hearing on ‘monopoly power’

Democratic Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline said Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple operate like monopolies and need to be broken up or regulated.

6 years ago

Tumar Alexander
Philadelphia
Politics
NBC10

Kenney to appoint Tumar Alexander as Philly’s acting managing director

The Managing Director's office oversees public safety departments, streets, 311 and health and human services among other city services.

6 years ago

Bucks County Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (left) and Ivyland Borough Councilmember Christina Finello. (AP Photo and Emma Lee/WHYY)
Pennsylvania
Policing

In Bucks race, Fitzpatrick and Finello stake out similar, moderate territory on policing

In their race to capture PA-01, Democrat Christina Finello and incumbent Republican Brian Fitzpatrick take the middle of the road on policing reform.

6 years ago

A wind energy farm in Somerset County. (Tim Lambert / WITF)
Energy
Environment
Public Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Green stimulus proposal calls for departure from legislative business as usual

As lawmakers debate how to help Pennsylvania’s economy recover from the coronavirus shutdown, environmental groups see an opening for a cleaner future.

6 years ago

Rapper Kanye West smiles as he listens to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House with President Donald Trump, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Elections
New Jersey

Kanye West’s N.J. ballot petition falls short, complaint says

“Mr. West’s petitions do not contain the valid signatures of 800 qualified voters and should have been rejected by the Division.”

6 years ago

Letter carrier Henrietta Dixon
NPR
Elections
National

Pending Postal Service changes could delay mail and deliveries, advocates warn

One Postal Service worker told NPR that the USPS used to take pride that every piece of mail went out by the end of the day. Now, the worker says, that's changed.

6 years ago

New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton
Income Inequality
Neighborhoods
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Most people are filling out the census, just not those N.J. says most need to be counted

Low response rates in communities of color could mean the loss of federal funds.

6 years ago

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