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Politics & Policy

The official White House Christmas tree, center, is seen in the Blue Room during a media preview of the 2017 holiday decorations at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
National Interest

A very contemporary Christmas poem

'Twas the night before Christmas
And through the White House
Not a creature was stirring
Except for the louse...

8 years ago

Ice sculpture from former state Sen. Vince Fumo's holiday party
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Food & Drink
Philadelphia

Fumo fest has pretty raw sushi station

Former state Sen. Vince Fumo's holiday party featured sushi served on the body of a naked woman.

8 years ago

House Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny, says he wishes he could divulge specifics of the claims that resulted in the House Democrats paying out $500,000 in the last decade to settle staff disputes.
Pennsylvania
Politics

Calls for change mount after harassment allegations against Pa. lawmakers

In the last decade House Democrats have spent more than half a million dollars to settle staff disputes.

8 years ago

FILE - In this Monday, March 31, 2014 file photo, SEIU-UHW worker Kathy Santana, left, assists Ruben Torres, 27, during a health care enrollment event at the SEIU-UHW office in Commerce, Calif.
National Interest
Health Care
National

Trump loses again: Americans flock to ‘dead’ Obamacare

Obamacare enrollment stats are a reminder that an historically unpopular president and a manifestly unpopular party cannot simply compel Americans to behave like sheep.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Elections
Politics

The fate of the Mueller investigation; Putin’s motivation

With some observers predicting that the President will fire Special Prosecutor Mueller despite official denials from the White House, we ...

8 years ago

Listen 26:15
Radio Times
Performing Arts
Politics

Doogie Horner / Mueller’s investigation and Putin’s motivation

Guests: Doogie Horner, Julia Ioffe, David Corn Today we’ll meet comedian and Philadelphia-native ...

Air Date: December 22, 2017

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As a master of old-school politics, U.S. Rep. Bob Brady is a fascinating throwback in Washington. But an array of circumstances could make it difficult for him to win another term in Congress. (AP file photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Elections
Law
Philadelphia

2018: Trouble for Congressman Brady?

For nearly 20 years, Bob Brady's been re-elected to Congress without a serious fight, but next year may be different. We look at whether he's vulnerable.

8 years ago

Listen 4:01
Catherine McCabe says she looks forward to helping Phil Murphy deal with the state’s environmental issues. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Environment
New Jersey

New Jersey’s governor-elect taps Obama EPA administrator for state DEP

Democratic Gov.-elect Phil Murphy says Catherine McCabe, a former acting EPA director, will lead New Jersey's counterpart department.

8 years ago

In this undated photo, caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. The refuge takes up an area nearly the size of South Carolina in Alaska's northeast corner. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)
NPR
Energy
Environment

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge battle ends, but drilling not a given

The Republican tax bill opens a part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development, ending an epic, nearly four-decade battle.

8 years ago

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley addresses the General Assembly prior to the body's censure vote on Jerusalem on Thursday. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
International

U.N. votes overwhelmingly to condemn U.S. decision on Jerusalem

Among the countries that voted in favor of the resolution are the United Kingdom and France. Israel joined the U.S. in voting against the measure.

8 years ago

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-WIs., right, applauds as President Donald Trump hugs Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as he speaks during an event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, to acknowledge the final passage of tax overhaul legislation by Congress.
National Interest

Two reasons why Republicans could survive their tax bill in 2018

Last week I suggested that the GOP tax "reform" law is a "suicide pact" that will snuff them in the '18 midterm elections. But today I play devil's advocate with myself.

8 years ago

A recovery home on Gooseneck Road in Bristol Township. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Addiction
Housing
Pennsylvania

Wolf signs law to regulate recovery homes in Pa.

Many of the homes, often run by people in long-term recovery themselves, operate in good faith, but others have unsafe living conditions and do little to further sober living.

8 years ago

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

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