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A Capital Gazette newspaper rack displays the day's front page, Friday, June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Md. A man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked journalists in the newspaper's building Thursday, killing several people before police quickly stormed the building and arrested him, police and witnesses said. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
National Interest

First Amendment casualties on the home front

With five people dead at an American newspaper, from an attack that would seem more shocking if it didn’t feel so inevitable, I can ...

8 years ago

California has banned a soda tax for 12 years. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Public Health

California bows to beverage industry, blocks soda taxes

It follows similar bans recently passed in Arizona and Michigan.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Senator Anthony Williams, Governor Tom Wolf, and Philadelphia Representative Jordan Harris pose for pictures after signing the Clean Slate bill. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
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Pennsylvania
Social Justice

Wolf signs law to seal certain Pa. criminal records

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has signed a bill to wipe clean criminal records for certain low-level offenders if they go a decade without any other convictions.

8 years ago

Only New Jersey beaches with state employees would be closed if there's a government shutdown, says Joe Simonetta, executive director of New Jersey Tourism Industry Association. That means 100 miles of shoreline will remain open to visitors.  (AP file photo)
New Jersey
Politics

Without a budget deal, N.J. creeping closer to shutdown

In event of a shutdown, most New Jersey beaches will remain open

8 years ago

U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, who favors a reversal of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, plans to make that a campaign issue in his quest to unseat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey. (AP file photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Pennsylvania

Barletta plans to campaign for U.S. Senate on repeal of Roe v. Wade

U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta says he hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, and he'll campaign on the issue against incumbent Bob Casey.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney signs the building new code into law Thursday. It will take effect in October. (Tom MacDonald, WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia

Philly OKs building code to modernize construction, address climate change

The city is one of the first on the East Coast to implement the 2018 International Building Code

8 years ago



President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. The two leaders are expected to meet again over the summer. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
International

President Trump set to meet with Russia’s Putin on July 16

The meeting will follow a NATO summit in Brussels on July 11.

8 years ago

At some point this year, Pennsylvanians will be able to legally gamble on sports. (AP)
Business
Pennsylvania
Sports

Pa. gradually laying out structure for legal sports betting

Lawmakers legalized the gambling expansion last year, but it wasn't permitted under federal law until a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month.

8 years ago

U.S. Supreme Court (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
National Interest

When will apathetic Democrats ever learn that the Supreme Court is issue #1?

My advice to Democrats — which I’ve offered for free since the dawn of this century — is that they pound this mantra into their ...

8 years ago

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Radio Times
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner

Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has garnered a lot of attention since assuming office in January, not just locally but nationally as well.

Air Date: June 28, 2018 10:00 am

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Efforts to legalize marijuana for recreational use were defeated in the Delaware House Wednesday evening. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Delaware
Politics

Delaware marijuana legalization fails by four votes in House

Recreational marijuana advocates could not attract the 25 votes needed for passage. The tally was 21-15 in favor of legalization, but five House Democrats abstained.

8 years ago

Trenton state Capitol building. (WHYY file photo)
New Jersey
Policing
Technology

Digital parking meter plan up for a vote in N.J.

The digital parking meters alert enforcement officers about any violation so they can ticket the offending vehicle.

8 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is reviewing the latest compromise offered by legislative leaders to arrive at a budget deal. The governor made concessions of his own Tuesday. (Michael Zorn/Invision/AP)
Economy
New Jersey

Hoping to avert N.J. shutdown, Murphy and lawmakers haggle over budget plan

Without a budget deal by midnight Saturday, there could be a government shutdown that would close state parks and beaches ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.

8 years ago

A sign advising of the Island Beach State Park closure due to the state budget impasse on Saturday, July 1, 2017. (Photo courtesy of Dennis Auciello)
Down the Shore
Government Accountability
New Jersey
Outdoors

Island Beach State Park to close if N.J. government shuts down

For the second year in a row, state beaches and parks will close if New Jersey lawmakers don't pass a budget by June 30.

8 years ago

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, right, and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, left, talk as they switch places at the podium during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, June 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Radio Times
Media
Politics

The “civility” debate

Guests: Tom Scocca, Sarah Sobieraj Since the disrupted dining experiences of a few Trump administration officials ...

Air Date: June 27, 2018 10:00 am

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