Politics & Policy
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polling places and update voters, a state web page for people to look up polling places may have been giving outdated information.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.
6 years ago
Republicans in the Pa. House are moving forward with legislation to end the disaster emergency declaration Gov. Tom Wolf issued on March 6 in response to the spread of covid
6 years ago
Could forgiveness follow apology 35 years after the MOVE bombing?
Some leaders are pushing for Philly to formally apologize for the MOVE bombing 35 years ago. It that were to happen, what would an apology — and forgiveness — look like?
Air Date: May 21, 2020
Listen 26:46As states plan to sue EPA over Chesapeake Bay cleanup, agency promises modest funds to help efforts
The Environmental Protection Agency said it is sending $6 million to bay states to help them reduce nitrogen runoff from farms.
6 years ago
All 50 U.S. states have now started to reopen, easing COVID-19 shutdown
All 50 states have at least partially eased tight restrictions on businesses, with a mix of policies letting restaurants or stores welcome customers.
6 years ago
Trump repeats unfounded claims about mail-in voting, threatens funding to 2 states
In a tweet Wednesday, Trump falsely claimed the state was sending ballots, not ballot applications, and said that because of that, its federal funding was at risk.
6 years ago














