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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stands at a podium
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National

Pelosi announces official impeachment inquiry: ‘No one is above the law’

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced the House is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

6 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden
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Delaware
National

Biden blasts Trump as a president who ‘believes he is above the law’

Former Vice President Joe Biden called for President Trump's impeachment unless the White House complies congressional requests for information.

6 years ago

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to address the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)
International
Law
National
The Philadelphia Experiment

Democrats need to start the impeachment process. Their core constituents are at risk.

The Ukraine phone call crosses the line where democrats need to move forward on the impeachment process. Their core constituents are at risk if they don’t.

6 years ago

Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, July 10, 2017. (Matt Rourke/ AP Photo)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Pa. House re-introduces contentious bills to reinstate mandatory minimum sentences

House Republicans are holding fast to one of their longtime, tougher-on-crime priorities.

6 years ago

Philadelphia City Council member Helen Gym. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Government Accountability
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Which lawsuits cost Philly taxpayers nearly $50 million last year? New bill would bring sunshine to sexual harassment payouts

Councilmember Helen Gym has two goals: provide accountability, and identify recurring problems.

6 years ago

In this Oct. 11, 2012, file photo, Hunter Biden waits for the start of the his father's, Vice President Joe Biden's, debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo, File)
Delaware
International
National

The story behind Biden’s son, Ukraine and Trump’s claims

Trump's private lawyer Rudy Giuliani has also publicly urged Ukrainian officials to investigate the Bidens.

6 years ago

A coal-fired power plant in central Poland. Global greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2018, and the world is on track for potentially catastrophic climate change in the coming decades. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
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Energy
Environment
International

U.N. Climate Summit sets stage for new national emissions promises

Leaders from nearly 200 countries are attending a special United Nations Summit on climate change today.

6 years ago

This Sept. 20, 2019 photo shows some of the sand dunes in Stone Harbor, N.J. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Environment
New Jersey

A little off the top: N.J. may rearrange some ocean dunes

New Jersey may take the unusual step of trimming some large dunes and using the sand to widen the beach in front of them.

6 years ago

In this Sept. 7, 2019 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, speaks during the New Hampshire state Democratic Party convention, in Manchester, NH. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)
Public Safety

In gun buyback talk, how do you round up so many weapons?

The prospect of significant gun measures has faded in recent weeks under the Republican-controlled Senate and President Donald Trump.

6 years ago

Jan. 13, 2018 file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talks to the media during a join declaration with the Colombian president, in Bogota, Colombia. (Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)
Environment
International

World leaders feel the heat in upcoming UN climate summit

Only those with new, specific and bold plans can command the podium and the ever-warming world's attention, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

6 years ago

Fifteen tax-abated properties along South Front Street between Walnut Street and Sansom Walk, and on Walnut Street between South Front Street and South 2nd Street have a combined value of more than $30 million. (Abdul R. Sulayman/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Philadelphia
Taxes
The Philadelphia Tribune

Who benefits? Philadelphia leads largest cities in property tax breaks

Philadelphia’s real estate tax breaks benefit some of the wealthiest in the city, a Tribune analysis of property records shows.

6 years ago

TMI supporters gathered Friday to lament the plant's closure, and the loss of jobs for the area. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

With TMI closed, nuclear advocates’ concern shifts to Pa.’s other plants

Those who support nuclear worry that without tax breaks, the plants will be shut out of a competitive energy market.

6 years ago

Stickers are placed out for voters at a polling place on Nov. 6, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Elections
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Legality of using bonds for election machines questioned by Pa. board

Officials in charge of the funding to reimburse counties for voting machine expenses say they have serious concerns about going through with the plan.

6 years ago

A bartender pours a cocktail into glasses with ice cubes. (iStock)
Food & Drink
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Pa. Liquor Control Board’s refusal to share records with state lawmaker sparks court battle

Act 39 of 2016 authorized the liquor control board to auction all expired or rescinded restaurant licenses since the year 2000.

6 years ago

Protestors and city officials gather outside the DELCORA building in Chester to protest the Delaware County Regional Water Authority’s deal with Aqua America, Inc. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Environment
Public Health
Sustainability

Delco Dems: DELCORA sale is a typical bad, backroom Republican deal

Democrats in Delaware County slammed a deal that sees the merger of DELCORA with Aqua Pennsylvania Wastewater as a deal among Republican insiders.

6 years ago

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