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Climate One

Climate One is a one-hour weekly public radio program about energy, economy and the environment from Climate One at the Commonwealth Club of California. Each week listeners will get a candid discussion among climate scientists, policy makers, activists and concerned citizens, hosted by Climate One founder Greg Dalton.

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Ballot dropbox outside Philadelphia City Hall (Twitter / @phillyvotes)
Elections
Billy Penn

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

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden depart after placing a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park, Monday, May 25, 2020, in New Castle, Del. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Delaware
Elections
Public Health

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

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is seen at a demonstration in favor of his government on Sunday.
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International
National
Public Health

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

Hillary Clinton embraces President Obama after his address to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in 2016. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Elections
Public Health

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

House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler (R- Lancaster), seated at right, accused the governor of bypassing the legislative process. (Commonwealth Media Services)
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Clash between Gov. Wolf, GOP legislature hinges on different understandings of power under the Pa. Constitution

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

Pa. Sen. candidate Nikil Saval. (Screenshot/NikilSaval.com)
Elections
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

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

Pedestrians walk past a polling station on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Elections
Pennsylvania
Politics

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

A crew of the Civilian Conservation Camps, which was started in 1933, has taken young men off the bread lines during the depression and put thousands to work.  These men, seen in 1940, were at the CCC's Camp Tomahawk in Wisconsin,. They helped fight forest fires by building fire lanes, clearing brush and the lake.  (AP Photo)
Radio Times
Economic Development

The call for national service

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 49:14
A row of signs advertising jobs are posted in front of a Burger King restaurant, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Harmony, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Economy
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania 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

Wilmington, Delaware (Tim Kiser/Wikimedia Commons)
Delaware
Economy

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

State Rep. Russ Diamond (R-Lebanon) speaks during a House Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee on April 27, 2020. (Ed Mahon / PA Post)
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Public Health
PA Post

Pa. House Republican: It’s an ‘open question’ whether Wolf could veto resolution to end coronavirus emergency

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

In this May, 1985 file photo, scores of rowhouses burn in a fire in the west Philadelphia neighborhood. Police dropped a bomb on the militant group MOVE's home on May 13, 1985 in an attempt to arrest members, leading to the burning of scores of homes in the neighborhood. (AP Photo, File)
The Why
History
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

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 26:46
The Susquehanna River in Harrisburg as seen on Aug. 19, 2019. The river is the largest tributary to the Chesapeake Bay. (Ian Sterling for WITF)
Environment
Government Accountability
StateImpact Pennsylvania

As 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

People eat in a deserted food court inside a mall west of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Monday. U.S. states have been easing restrictions on businesses ahead of Memorial Day, the traditional start of the summer vacation and outdoor season. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Government Accountability
Public Health

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

People stand in line at a Detroit polling place during Michigan's March 10 presidential primary. Because of the pandemic, the state's top election official is sending absentee ballot applications to every registered voter for August and November elections. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Elections
Government Accountability

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

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