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Politics & Policy

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polling places and update voters, a state web page for people to look up polling places may have been giving outdated information.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

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, meets with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Irqah Palace, in Riyadh Saudi Arabia, Thursday, February 20, 2020. Pompeo met with King Salman in the capital, Riyadh, on Thursday. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)
Radio Times
International
Politics

The Saudi arms deal and the firing of State Department I.G.

President Trump and Sec. of State Pompeo fired the department's I.G., with reports suggesting it was motivated by an investigation into a massive Saudi arms deal.

Air Date: May 20, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:31
A pedestrian walks by the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, June 28, 2019.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Business
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Lobbyists become essential as Pa. debates who gets to reopen

Pennsylvania businesses seeking to reopen are finding success hiring lobbyists, but who can afford that access?

6 years ago

In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump is greeted by Matt Schlapp, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, as the president arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference,  at National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
National
Public Health

Trump allies lining up doctors to prescribe rapid reopening

Republican political operatives are recruiting “pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible.

6 years ago

(Dan Moyle/Flickr)
Business
Real Estate
Spotlight PA

Pa. officials allow scaled-back real estate operations to resume statewide

Gov. Tom Wolf on the same day vetoed a bill to restart the real estate industry, angering Republicans in the legislature.

6 years ago

The Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (Russ Walker/PA Post)
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Gov. Wolf vetoes bill that would halt new regulations during pandemic

Environmental groups opposed the bill, while the Pennsylvania GOP says lawmakers and agencies need time to focus on COVID-19.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during an event on the food supply chain amid the coronavirus pandemic, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
National
Public Health

My ‘decision to make’: Trump defends criticized use of drug

Trump dismissed reports of side effects of the drug, saying, “All I can tell you is, so far I seem to be OK.”

6 years ago

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