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Politics & Policy

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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania state Sen. Daylin Leach. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP)
Pennsylvania

Pa. Senate Dems, again, call for Leach to resign. He doesn’t plan to.

The caucus has released a final report about sexual misconduct allegations against Leach. It found “unprofessional” behavior, but no sexual harassment.

7 years ago

Cars and trucks are shown jammed on the southbound New Jersey Turnpike. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
New Jersey
Transportation

New Jersey rolls out Real ID driver’s licenses on appointment-only basis

Starting October 2020, standard licenses will no longer work at airport security checkpoints or to enter federal buildings.

7 years ago

City Council member Blondell Reynolds Brown advocates for her bill requiring universal lead checks for rental units at a June 6, 2019 press conference. (David Kim)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia

Landlords win concession in City Council battle over lead safety bill

The win came in the form of an amendment that requires all units built before 1978 to have their properties regularly inspected to secure a “lead safe” certification.

7 years ago

Reflecting on his decision to go public with classified information, Edward Snowden says, 'The likeliest outcome for me, hands down, was that I'd spend the rest of my life in an orange jumpsuit, but that was a risk that I had to take.'
(Courtesy of Edward Snowden)
NPR
Books
International
Fresh Air

Exiled NSA contractor Edward Snowden: ‘I haven’t and I won’t’ cooperate with Russia

Had I cooperated with the Russian government right — if you think I'm a Russian spy — I would have been in that airport for five minutes before they drove me out in a limo.

7 years ago

House Republicans assembled Wednesday to announce plans for a concerted push to pass a package of pro-energy industry bills.
(Katie Meyer/WITF)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pa. GOP members begin moving priority, pro-natural gas package

The raft of proposals serves as a rejection of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s own energy plan.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Media
TV

How television made Donald Trump

New York Times television critic James Poniewozik discusses his book, "Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America."

Air Date: September 19, 2019 10:00 am

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President Trump with his new national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, on Wednesday in Los Angeles. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
National

Once a ‘rocket ship,’ National Security Council now avoided by government pros

Career foreign policy professionals tell NPR they increasingly fear that joining the NSC, which is part of the White House, will taint them as political operatives.

7 years ago

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