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Politics & Policy

Mayor Jim Kenney speaks before giving away new bikes Wednesday at a City Hall ceremony. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Transportation

Kenney: Protected bike lanes needed, but so is funding to pay for them

The death of a cyclist who was struck by a privately owned trash truck last month has spurred demands for safer bike lanes.

8 years ago

A woman, right, scavenges on the beach while workers labor on the new seawall construction project to protect Mantoloking, New Jersey, from the Atlantic Ocean. As the third anniversary of Superstorm Sandy approaches, New Jersey says it has acquired 90 percent of the easements it needs to do shore protection work along the coast. New Jersey is beginning to exercise its power of eminent domain to secure other easements. (AP file photo)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Stockton report analyzes 30 years of N.J. shoreline change

Since 1986, Stockton's Coastal Research Center has conducted beach surveys each fall and spring to document the shoreline position and sand volume.

8 years ago

During an appearance Thursday night at Rowan University, former Gov. Chris Christie blasted New Jersey's current Gov. Phil Murphy, claiming Murphy is casting too much blame on him. (AP, file)
Law
New Jersey

Christie signs bills to loosen rules on erasing criminal records

Three new laws will make it easier for New Jerseyans to wipe clean their criminal records.

8 years ago

The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ civil rights organization, projected seven words that were allegedly banned from some CDC documents onto the facade of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. (Human Rights Campaign)
NPR

CDC denies banning words; rights group projects disputed terms onto Trump D.C. hotel

The Human Rights Campaign, working with artist Robin Bell, projected words like "fetus" and "transgender" onto the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

8 years ago

After senators worked past midnight to pass the Republican tax bill, Walter Arandia distributes copies of the daily legislative calendar before lawmakers return, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, early Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017.
Dave Davies: Off Mic
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Taxes

GOP Reps in region split as tax bill passes

All U.S. House Republicans from Pennsylvania voted for the tax package; four of five in New Jersey opposed it.

8 years ago

Listen 1:47
President Donald Trump, with, from left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Vice President Mike Pence, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks about the passage of the tax bill on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017.
NPR
National
Taxes

Trump celebrates legislative win after Congress passes $1.5 trillion tax cut bill

Congressional Republicans delivered on their first major legislative accomplishment of the Trump era on Wednesday, when the House voted 224-201 to pass the tax package.

8 years ago

Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap
National Interest

Whatever happened to Trump’s fraudulent voter fraud commission?

An old Yiddish quip comes in handy during times of misfortune: "It could always be worse."

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Petri, R-Bucks
Business
Pennsylvania

Rep. Petri, who chaired House Gaming Committee, will resign seat

The Bucks County Republican says he's stepping down from the legislature to become executive director of the Philadelphia Parking Authority.

8 years ago

(PLANPHILLY)
Radio Times
Philadelphia

Philly’s poverty problem

Guests: Sister Mary Scullion, Mariana Chilton, Maria Quinones-Sanchez Philadelphia remains the poorest major U.S ...

Air Date: December 20, 2017

Listen 49:15
Pa. state Sen. Daylin Leach has ended his congressional campaign more than two months after multiple women accused him of inappropriate touching and making sexually-suggestive jokes. (WHYY file photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Pennsylvania
Politics

Will Pa. Senate probe Leach accusations?

State Sen. Daylin Leach says he'll work with Senate leaders to address accusations of sexual misconduct, but it's not clear how that will happen.

8 years ago

Listen 2:12
The Pennsylvania  House Democratic Caucus paid $248,000 in 2015 to settle a complaint from a staffer of state Rep. Tom Caltagirone, D-Berks. (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Politics

Pa. House Dems spent $250,000 to settle one harassment complaint

Altogether, House Democrats have paid $600,000 in taxpayer money to settle complaints against four lawmakers over the last decade.

8 years ago

(WHYY, file)
Philadelphia
Transportation

No data on how often positive train control has prevented SEPTA crashes

New Jersey Transit is still working to get positive train control installed by a December 2018 deadline. That deadline was already extended by Congress once.

8 years ago

New Jersey Gov.-elect Phil Murphy says Assemblywoman Marlene Caride will help him develop a pubic bank in New Jersey as commissioner of the Department of Banking and Insurance.  (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Economy
Insurance
New Jersey

Murphy names Assemblywoman Caride to head N.J. banking department

Caride will have a role in implementing Murphy's signature campaign pledge of creating a public bank.

8 years ago

From l-r., Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Rep. Mike Bishop, R-Mich., meet with reporters to announce the Republicans' proposed rewrite of the tax code for individuals and corporations, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017.
NPR
National
Taxes

Senate approves landmark tax overhaul, bill returns to house

Republicans in Congress approved a sweeping and controversial $1.5 trillion tax overhaul, with the Senate voting early Wednesday along straight party lines to move the measure

8 years ago

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), speaks about the Republican tax reform legislation currently before Congress, during his weekly briefing on Capitol Hill December 14. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Taxes

Charts: See how much of GOP tax cuts will go to the middle class

The average household would get a tax cut of $1,610 in 2018, a bump of about 2.2 percent in that average household's income, according to a report released Monday.

8 years ago

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