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Politics & Policy

Union members and activists protest over contract negotiations with Wabtec Corporation in Wilmerding, Pa., on March 6. Many are workers from one of the company's facilities in Erie County, which flipped from voting for Barack Obama to Donald Trump in 2016. (Don Gonyea/NPR)
NPR
Economy
Pennsylvania

Trump faces mixed reviews among union workers, who still face insecurity

Some union members who were Trump backers from 2016 are reassessing whether they'll support him again in 2020.

6 years ago

Workers prepare voting machines at the Office of the  City Commissioner's warehouse the day before the recount of votes in 75 precincts was set to begin. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Elections

Cyber security expert urges Pa. to find the money for new voting machines

At a state capitol news conference Tuesday, he warned Pennsylvania, as a swing state, is a target for foreign agents looking to sow doubt in the next election.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., right, takes a question from a member of the media as he arrives for a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Health Care
National
Public Health

Dems cry foul as Trump calls for striking down ‘Obamacare’

The Trump administration has told a federal appeals court it wants the entire Affordable Care Act struck down, an outcome that could leave millions uninsured

6 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Noah K. Murray/AP Photo)
Higher Education
New Jersey

N.J. Gov. Murphy pledges to make higher education more accessible, affordable

Announcing his statewide plan for higher education Tuesday, which he said the state has lacked for years, Gov. Murphy emphasized the need among students for work experience.

6 years ago

At a news conference in front of Bartram High School in Southwest Philadelphia, State Sen. Anthony Williams, who's running against Jim Kenney in the mayoral race, criticized Kenney's work on stemming violence in Philadelphia. (Dave Davies/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Philadelphia

Mayoral candidate Williams says Kenney’s plans to stem violence in Philly have failed

Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Williams criticized Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney on crime, saying his plans to stem violence have failed.

6 years ago

President George H.W. Bush addressing the nation on Sept. 5, 1989. The president illustrated the threat of drugs by holding up a baggie of crack he said had been seized across the street from the White House. (Courtesy of George Bush Presidential Library and Museum)
Addiction
History
Marketplace

30 years ago, George H.W. Bush held up a bag of crack on live TV. Where’d he get it?

Overall drug use, and the use of crack in particular, was in decline by 1989, but Bush turbocharged the war on drugs that night.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump signs the first veto of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
Immigration

House fails to override Trump veto of his border emergency

The House fell short Tuesday in its effort to override President Donald Trump's first veto, handing him a victory to spend billions to construct barriers along the border.

6 years ago

The state Capitol building in Harrisburg. (Tom Downing/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania

Pa. Republicans, Democrats stake out positions in general assistance battle

They already got rid of it once before, in 2012. But the program landed back on the GOP chopping block after the state Supreme Court revived it last year on a technicality.

6 years ago

Detective Barbara J. Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Radio Times

Holding gun manufacturers accountable

A Connecticut Supreme Court decision to allow Sandy Hook massacre victim's families sue gun makers could change the landscape of the firearms industry.

6 years ago

Listen 29:07
Special Counsel Robert Mueller walks past the White House after attending services at St. John's Episcopal Church, in Washington, Sunday, March 24, 2019. Mueller closed his long and contentious Russia investigation with no new charges, ending the probe that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump's presidency. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Radio Times

Mueller’s investigation summary

According to Mueller's investigation, Trump did not collude with Russia. But, according to the report, he cannot be fully exonerate either.

6 years ago

Listen 19:39
Freshmen Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has provoked a new debate over climate change with her Green New Deal. (Kevin Hagen/AP)
NPR
Economic Development
Elections
Environment

Green New Deal vote sets up climate change as key 2020 issue

Senate Republicans will force a vote on the Green New Deal this week as part of an effort to turn the provocative climate change resolution into a wedge issue for 2020.

6 years ago

Movita Johnson-Harrell, shown here while she was the supervisor of the Philadelphia district attorney's Victim/Witness Services unit. An invocation given before Johnson-Harrell's swearing-in to the state House was broadly construed as Islamophobic. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Pennsylvania

The Pa. House’s first Muslim woman spent her first day addressing ‘offensive’ invocation

In under two minutes, Freshman Representative Borowicz, a Christian, mentioned Jesus 13 times and praised President Donald Trump for his unequivocal support of Israel.

6 years ago

State Sen. President Steve Sweeney, left, said he wants $50 million in the state budget for fiscal year 2020 to go toward so-called extraordinary aid for special education students (Joe Hernandez/WHYY)
New Jersey

N.J. legislators call off planned recreational marijuana vote over lack of support

State Sen. President Steve Sweeney, D-Gloucester, said the Senate specifically did not have enough votes to pass the legislation, but the Assembly also called off its vote.

6 years ago

City Council meeting held on March 7, 2019. (Jared Piper/PHLCouncil)
Philadelphia

Philadelphia City Council starts budget hearings with lots of questions and some answers

From rising costs in city jails to debating the 10-year tax abatement, Philadelphia City Council had lots of questions about Mayor Kenney's budget.

6 years ago

This Jan. 6, 2014 photo shows a section of the Pinelands region in Lakehurst N.J. On March 25, 2019, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ordered five companies that make chemicals used to stain-proof clothing and make non-stick cookware to fund a plan to clean up contamination of the state's environment, including waterways, that have been tainted by the presence of the chemicals. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Environment

New Jersey orders cleanup of clothing, cookware chemical manufacturers

The state Department of Environmental Protection ordered the manufacturers Monday to provide a detailed account of their use and discharge of so-called PFAS substances.

6 years ago

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