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PlanPhilly
Philadelphia

Task force wants mediation to prevent evictions in Philadelphia

The goal is to significantly cut down on the annual rate of 24,000 evictions in the city

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Environment
National

Republican congressman: Pruitt should quit after trying to block PFAS study

Fitzpatrick: '...way too much smoke' surrounding EPA chief.

8 years ago

(AP Photo/David Goldman)
Radio Times
Elections
Technology

Protecting your vote

Guests: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Lawrence Norden, Eugene DePasquale We’re going to discuss three different stories re ...

Air Date: June 26, 2018 10:00 am

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This Saturday, June 23, 2018 photo shows the Red Hen Restaurant in downtown Lexington, Va. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday in a tweet that she was booted from the Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump. Sanders said she was told by the owner of The Red Hen  that she had to
National Interest

If Trump’s critics don’t mind their manners, some bad things could happen!

The Red Hen restaurant incident has already spun through umpteen news cycles, so I need not recap in detail the proprietor’s polite ...

8 years ago

Lawmakers have left Harrisburg with a few high-profile bills unfinished. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Lawmakers depart Harrisburg, leaving redistricting reform hanging

After a final Monday session to tie up loose ends, the state House of ...

8 years ago

GrowPA aims to grow the state's economy to address the unemployment rate; lessen the burden on the state budget; and reverse the population decline. (Big Stock photo)
Economic Development
Economy
Pennsylvania

Joining together to help Pennsylvania grow

This isn’t a political fight. It’s not a partisan struggle. It’s not about political victories or punishment. It’s about opportunity.

8 years ago

N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy says he will focus on a measure to gradually bring the minimum wage up to $15. That would fulfill one of his campaign promises. (Courtesy of Edwin J. Torres/Governor's Office.)
New Jersey
Politics

Murphy says he cannot sign legislators’ $36.5B budget

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday he cannot sign the Legislature's $36.5 billion budget because it relies on what he calls unsustainable revenue.

8 years ago

Janet Kamara, from Liberia, sits during an interview conducted in an International Organization for Migration transit center in Arlit, Niger on Saturday, June 2, 2018. Kamara was expelled from Algeria, and left stranded in the Sahara while pregnant.
International

‘Women were lying dead, men…’ Migrants expelled in Sahara

In the Sahara, Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the past 14 months, stranding them without food or water, forcing them to walk in the deadly heat.

8 years ago

The Pentagon plans to build temporary camps for detained immigrants. Here, children of detained migrants are seen at a tent encampment near the U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry in Tornillo, Texas. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)
NPR
Immigration
National

Pentagon will build 2 more temporary camps to house migrants, Mattis says

The defense chief did not give details about the locations of the bases that would contain the camps.

8 years ago

Harley-Davidson motorcycle engines are assembled at the company's plant in Menomonee Falls, Wis. Tariffs from the European Union are prompting the company to shift production of some motorcycles for the European market overseas.
(Scott Olson/Getty Images)
NPR
Business
Economy

Casualty of trade tensions: Harley-Davidson shifting more production overseas

Harley-Davidson says it plans to move production of motorcycles it sells in Europe overseas in response to growing trade friction between the United States and Europe.

8 years ago

Kristopher Coca yells during a protest outside the U.S. Border Patrol Central Processing Center Saturday, June 23, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. The protest occurred amid an uproar over the Trump administration's practice of separating immigrant families caught on the southwest border. President Donald Trump signed an order this week to keep families detained together during immigration proceedings. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
National Interest

Trump’s midterm election strategy: Bash immigrants and the rule of law

It’s no mystery why Trump has spent the last two weeks banging away 24/7 about the border. He knows that his fans are stoked by fea ...

8 years ago

Children and workers are seen at a tent encampment last week n Tornillo, Texas. The Trump administration was using the tent facility to house immigrant children separated from their parents. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
NPR
Immigration

Department of Homeland Security releases plan to reunify families

In a fact sheet issued on Saturday, it provided no timeline for when those reunifications will happen.

8 years ago

A photo of President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is on display as a member of People's Democratic Party stands in opposition of military exercises between the United States and South Korea near the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Tuesday. (Ahn Young-joon/AP)
NPR
Military
National

U.S. and South Korea agree to suspend upcoming military exercises indefinitely

The announcement comes on the heels of the summit in Singapore between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12.

8 years ago

Scott Wagner for Governor (YouTube)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Elections
Pennsylvania

New video: GOP gubernatorial hopeful loves West Philly

A new campaign video shows Pennsylvania Republican Scott Wagner stumping for votes at Malcolm X Park in West Philadelphia.

8 years ago

The governor has twice renewed the 90-day
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

In year of Pa. budget firsts, plan passes on time and Wolf signs it

Republicans cheered the lack of new taxes.

8 years ago

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