Politics & Policy
Pandemic puts a crimp on voter registration, potentially altering electorate
Most places where Americans usually register to vote have been closed since March. It's led to a big drop in registrations right before an election expecting high turnout.
6 years ago
Twitter points users to fact checks of Trump tweets for the first time
The link was added to a tweet in which the president claims without evidence that mail-in ballots are fraudulent.
6 years ago
Facing nearly $5 billion shortfall, Pa. lawmakers plan to pass short-term budget
The plan will allow officials to get a clearer picture of the strain placed on Pennsylvania’s finances by efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
6 years ago
Pa. businesses to get $2.2M in Department of Energy research grants
U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said the goal is to move beyond current technologies.
6 years ago
Trump team killed rule designed to protect health workers from pandemic like COVID-19
"If that rule had gone into effect, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan," said former OSHA head David Michaels.
6 years ago
Philly: Vote now by dropping your ballot into a special box at City Hall
Applications for mail-in voting are up 30x over the last presidential primary.
6 years ago
Biden makes 1st in-person appearance in more than 2 months
Biden and his wife, Jill, laid a wreath of white flowers tied with a white bow, and bowed their heads in silence at the park. He saluted and said "Never forget."
6 years ago
White House restricts travel from Brazil, where coronavirus cases near 350,000
Brazil has the world's second-highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections, behind only the United States, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University.
6 years ago
A tale of two (convention) cities fearing a second wave of COVID-19
At this point it is hard for convention planners to know whether the last two weeks in August would bring relative calm or a rerun of the outbreaks from March and April.
6 years ago
What the governor’s powers are and how they interact with those of the legislature are complex questions and the answers may depend upon who exactly you ask.
6 years ago
Local 98 backs Nikil Saval, Bernie-endorsed challenger for Philly state Senate seat
Incumbent Pa. Sen. Larry Farnese has held the powerful Harrisburg pulpit for 12 years.
6 years ago
With Pa.’s last-minute polling place changes, voters might get conflicting information
Amid a rush to consolidate polling places and update voters, a state web page for people to look up polling places may have been giving outdated information.
6 years ago
We discuss the renewed call to expand national service which would put young people and the unemployed to work fighting the pandemic and helping with the national recovery.
Air Date: May 22, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 49:14Pennsylvania jobless rate hits 15.1% as payrolls collapse
Meanwhile, payrolls fell by more than 1 million to the lowest level in at least three decades.
6 years ago
Despite ‘information deficit,’ Delaware projects slight improvement for revenue
After slashing expectations for state revenue in the coming fiscal year, a state council has added some of that revenue back into their projection.
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