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Politics & Policy

Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro is the latest Democrat to drop out of the presidential race. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NPR
Elections

Julián Castro drops out of the Democratic presidential race

Castro released a video on Twitter Thursday, saying that his campaign had "stood up for the most vulnerable people" and had "given a voice to those who are often forgotten."

6 years ago

A farmer operates a combine to harvest soybeans in Wyanet, Ill. Farmers got more than $22 billion in government payments in 2019. It's the highest level of farm subsidies in 14 years. (Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Business
Economy

Farmers got billions from taxpayers in 2019, and hardly anyone objected

Farm subsidies jumped to their highest level in fourteen years, most of them paid out without any action by Congress.

6 years ago

Dauphin County Commissioners George Hartwick, Jeff Haste and Mike Pries before voting 2-1 to negotiate a contract with Clear Ballot for new voting machines during a special session Monday in Harrisburg. Haste voted against it. (Emily Previti/PA Post)
Elections
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Pa. counties make deadline for new voting systems, but still have to deal with election code changes

There are also two lawsuits pending over one machine picked by three jurisdictions that are home to about 17% of Pennsylvania's voters.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney at City Council. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia

NYE nix: Kenney vetoes food truck ban, kills Society Hill carve-out and more

Mayor Jim Kenney told City Council Tuesday he will not sign six pieces of legislation, killing the bills.

6 years ago

Marriage license applicants in Delaware are asked for their race when they appear at their county’s marriage bureau. This is screen shot of the computerized template that clerks fill out. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
Home & Family

Bill would ban question about race from Delaware marriage license application

The law is a vestige of the days when Delaware banned marriages between Black and white people. Sen. Townsend says it needs to be stricken.

6 years ago

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Jeff Martin easily defeated incumbent Kelly Yaede to be elected mayor of Hamilton Township, N.J.  He was first elected in 2017 as a member of the Township Council. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Elections
New Jersey

New Hamilton mayor ready to take lead position in the New Year

In 2020, the town will have a new leader for the first time in eight years. Jeff Martin looks to improve the animal shelter and ensure safe drinking water.

6 years ago

Demonstrators against the Trump administration's push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in April. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
NPR
Government Accountability
Race & Ethnicity

Census Bureau finds Latinos, Asians sensitive to now-blocked citizenship question

In areas where Latinx residents make up more than half of the population, the bureau found a 1.1% difference in self-response rates

6 years ago

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2019 photo, President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media following a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the military at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Government Accountability
Health Care

3 years in, no sign of Trump’s replacement for Obamacare

As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health care law with a plan of his own

6 years ago

New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton
Business
New Jersey
Social Justice

2020 brings higher wages and possibly higher salaries for New Jersey workers

New law aims to prevent employers from low-balling women and job applicants of color.

6 years ago

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Trump this month. Lewis says he'll stay in office while he undergoes treatment for pancreatic cancer.
(House Television via AP)
NPR

Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis to start treatment for Pancreatic Cancer

Georgia Rep. John Lewis, an icon of the civil rights movement, has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

6 years ago

Outgoing Councilmember Jannie Blackwell in the City Hall office she's occupied for the better part of four decades (Max Marin/Billy Penn)
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

45 years in the same room: Jannie Blackwell bows out of City Hall

Alongside her husband and after his death, the seven-term West Philly councilwoman made history.

6 years ago

Community College of Philadelphia student Hanna Archibald, 20, learns how to use a new voting machine from Matthew McKeon of the City Commissioners Office. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Elections

For 2020, Philadelphia hopes to build on 2018 record-breaking young voter turnout

The number of young voters showing up in Philly doubled from 2014 to 2018. Now, the city is looking to increase youth engagement even more ahead of the 2020 election.

6 years ago

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In this Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gestures while taking part at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco. (Eric Risberg/AP Photo)
Elections

Bloomberg axes N.J. company using prisoners for campaign calls

Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg cut ties with a contractor that used prisoners to make calls for his presidential campaign, he said in a statement Tuesday.

6 years ago

Despite calls for change, the outgoing Philadelphia City Council never managed to chip away at Mayor Jim Kenney’s soda tax. (Daniel Acker/Getty Images)
Economy
Philadelphia
Taxes
The Philadelphia Tribune

Doubts if new council will take on mayor’s soda tax

Despite calls for change, the outgoing Philadelphia City Council never managed to chip away at Mayor Jim Kenney’s soda tax.

7 years ago

White House counsel Don McGahn speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), at National Harbor, Md. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
National

House committee raises prospect of more impeachment articles

The House Judiciary Committee is holding open the possibility of recommending additional articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

7 years ago

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