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Politics & Policy

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, left, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo meet during the dedication ceremony in Foundation Hall, of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, in New York, Thursday, May 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)
Government Accountability
New Jersey
WNYC

Chris ‘sit down and shut up’ Christie creates think tank centered on civility

Chris Christie is starting a think tank centered on something unexpected: Civility in politics.

6 years ago

Photo of woman holding terminally ill mother hand
Aging
Health Care
New Jersey

Doctor who sued N.J. to stop ‘aid-in-dying’ law believes it violates his oath

An attorney for the doctor who sued to stop New Jersey’s new aid-in-dying law said his client believes the law violates his oath as a practicing physician.

6 years ago

Trump critics (clockwise from top left) Bill Kristol, George Conway, David Frum, and Joe Walsh. (AP Photos)
National Interest
National Interest

Some Democrats refuse to welcome anti-Trump Republicans. That’s wrong.

If I've learned anything while covering national politics for the last 30 years, it's the axiom that a campaign or a party needs all the votes it can possibly get.

6 years ago

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky walks off the House floor in April. In his chamber, McConnell can decide virtually by himself what the Senate will do — and even what it will consider doing. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
NPR
Elections

How does one man have so much power without being president?

McConnell's status stems from his office as the Senate majority leader — elected by his party colleagues to lead their conference in the chamber.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks while on a tour of Shell's soon-to-be completed Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in Beaver County, Pa. on Tuesday. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
NPR
Pennsylvania

Pa. workers forced to choose between watching Trump, no pay or using paid time off

Missing a day of work could amount to $700 in pay, benefits and a per diem payment that out-of-town workers receive, a union leader told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

6 years ago

Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez poses for a photo during an interview with the Associated Press at the La Fortaleza, the official residence of the Governor of Puerto Rico, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. Governor Vazquez says she plans to remain in the position to help ease the U.S. territory's political turmoil and will have the flexibility to truly work for the people because she is free of all political ties or obligations. (Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/AP Photo)
International

Puerto Rico governor to stay, fight corruption

She said her priorities are to fight corruption, secure federal hurricane recovery funds and help pull Puerto Rico out of its 13-year recession.

6 years ago

Centre County introduced new ES&S voting machines in the primary on May 21, 2019. (Min Xian/WPSU)
Elections
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Study: Pa. counties spend double when they pick touch-screen voting machines

Costs per voter work out to $12.51 for hand-marked ballot systems versus $23.35 for ballot-marking devices, or BMDs, according to the analysis.

6 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf speaks during a news conference at City Hall in Philadelphia, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

Wolf unveils gun violence effort, days after Philly shooting

Wolf is setting up a new Office of Gun Violence Prevention at the state commission on crime and delinquency.

6 years ago

A woman who lives near the Croda chemical plant questions company and state officials during a meeting about November’s toxic release and steps being taken before the plant can resume making ethylene oxide. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
Energy
Environment

Amid residents’ fears from November toxic gas release, Del. plant hopes to resume production

Croda Inc. released more 2,600 pounds of highly flammable ethylene oxide in November. Officials want to resume production in two months but state says more must be done.

6 years ago

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Sunoco's Mariner East 2 pipeline construction on Pennell Road in Middletown Township. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

PUC ordered Sunoco to produce its calculations on Mariner East blast zones

The regulator demanded information on how the local population would be affected by any pipeline failure.

6 years ago

A billboard in Horse Cave, Ky., referring to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. as Moscow Mitch has been erected on northbound I-65 Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
National Interest
National Interest

Even if Democrats dump Trump, they’ll need to ditch Mitch

A sizable share of Democrats fully recognize that capturing the Senate, and dethroning Mitch McConnell, is nearly as critical as ousting Donald Trump.

6 years ago

A shale gas drilling rig in Washington, Pa. (Michael Rubinkam/AP Photo)
Energy
Infrastructure
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Poll: Broad support for Wolf’s plan to tax Pa. gas drillers to pay for infrastructure upgrades

A new poll from Franklin and Marshall College finds widespread support among Pennsylvania voters for Governor Tom Wolf’s plan to pay for infrastructure upgrades.

6 years ago

In a Friday, June 28, 2019 file photo, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks during a news conference in Harrisburg, Pa. Wolf says four children in his state were recently separated from their parents by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he’s demanding a stop to the practice until there’s a plan to ensure children’s welfare. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, File)
Immigration
Kids
Pennsylvania

Pa. Governor wants answers on 4 kids separated from families

Pennsylvania's governor says at least four children from his state were recently separated from their parents by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

6 years ago

In this Aug. 11, 2019 photo, children of mainly Latino immigrant parents hold signs in support of them and those individuals picked up during an immigration raid at a food processing plant in Canton, Miss., following a Spanish Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Canton, Miss. Trump administration rules that could deny green cards to immigrants if they use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance are going into effect. (Rogelio V. Solis./AP Photo)
Immigration
National

New rules can deny green cards for immigrants on food stamps

Trump administration rules that could deny green cards to immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance are going into effect.

6 years ago

This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)
National Interest
National
National Interest

The new normal: Trump accuses a predecessor of murder

Granted, conspiracy theorists on the left claim, also without evidence, that it was Trump who got Epstein whacked.

6 years ago

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