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Politics & Policy

Philadelphia district attorney candidates Larry Krasner and Beth Grossman.
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Philadelphia
Policing

DA's race comes to a close: An upset possible?

With six days left in the Philly district attorney's race, both candidates are running hard, and Republican Beth Grossman is hoping for a historic upset.

8 years ago

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The feet of a woman at in a voting booth
Keystone Crossroads
Economy
Elections
K-12
Pennsylvania

Pa. voters could take step toward property tax elimination Tuesday

When Pennsylvanians go to the polls next Tuesday, they’ll have a rare opportunity to vote to change the state constitution.

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.
National Interest

Republican reckoning: Rule of law or rule of Trump?

Yogi Berra reputedly said, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." The Republicans on Capitol Hill can only wish it were that easy to choose indecision.

8 years ago

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-New Jersey,,  and Beverly Brown Ruggia with New Jersey Citizen Action say price gouging after a natural disaster is despicable. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Business
New Jersey

U.S. lawmaker wants to extend N.J. law against post-disaster price gouging

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-New Jersey, says thousands of price-gouging cases have been reported in Florida and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of massive storms there.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (left) and U.S. Sen Bob Casey.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Taxes

As U.S. House GOP gets ready to talk taxes, Pa. Dems lobby to keep local deductions

Getting rid of the state and local tax deduction known as SALT would be "a tax increase on the middle class, pure and simple," said Gov. Tom Wolf.

8 years ago

Gov. Christie leans in to hand President Trump a pen
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Legislative prescriptions targeting opioid crisis accompany Trump declaration

Representatives from Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania offers bills addressing fentanyl smuggling, medical education and greater regional cooperation.

8 years ago

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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, file photo, Paul Manafort walks from Federal District Court in Washington. The three nations named in the indictment of former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort have been known by financial crime experts in the past as locations for money laundering or at risk of being used for money laundering. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Delaware
Elections

Manafort indictment includes Delaware LLCs

The indictment of Paul Manafort states that of the 23 LLCs Manafort used in the alleged scheme, nine were in Delaware. A state lawmaker wants better screening of LLCs.

8 years ago

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Department of Homeland Security personnel deliver supplies to Santa Ana community residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Guayama, Puerto Rico.
Delaware
Infrastructure
International
Public Health

Delaware senators express concern over ongoing power restoration in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands

Tom Carper and Chris Coons joined 33 other senators in sending a letter to FEMA and USACE demanding an expedited and more coordinated power restoration effort.

8 years ago

In this photo from President Donald Trump's Twitter account, George Papadopoulos, third from left, sits at a table with then-candidate Trump and others at what is labeled at a national security meeting in Washington that was posted on March 31, 2016. Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide belittled by the White House as a low-level volunteer was thrust on Oct. 30, 2017, to the center of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, providing evidence in the first criminal case that connects Trump’s team and intermediaries for Russia seeking to interfere in the campaign.
National Interest

Mueller pierces Trump’s ‘no collusion’ delusion

The Trump disinformation factory insists that Papadopoulos was merely some low-level campaign “volunteer,” thus leaving the fake impression that he was licking envelopes.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has decided to let the school code bill become law without his signature. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Economy
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Wolf approves most of Pa. Legislature-backed revenue plan

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has signed the majority of the revenue plan passed by the Legislature last week — four months past the deadline.

8 years ago

Elections
New Jersey

With attack ad, Guadagno makes illegal immigration top issue in final days of N.J. governor’s race

Lagging in the polls, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, a Republican, rolled out a tough-on-illegal-immigration TV ad many viewed as a departure from her moderate conservative persona.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Government Accountability
Transportation

Mapping out patterns for why some PA towns give up their local police forces

8 years ago

A woman plays the slots at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Dauphin County, Pennylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Economic Development
Economy
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Pa. revamps policy for casino payments to host communities as it expands gambling opportunities

Changes to the local share tax come after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional last year.

8 years ago

Republican nominee Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, right, answers a question during a gubernatorial debate against Democratic nominee Phil Murphy at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J.  (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, pool)
Elections
Gender
New Jersey

Gender gap in New Jersey voter preferences benefits Democrat in governor's race

Republican Kim Guadagno is hoping to be the second woman elected governor of New Jersey, but female voters are showing more support for Democrat Phil Murphy.

8 years ago

In this file photo, Sen. Bob Menendez talk to reporters as he arrives to court for his federal corruption trial in Newark, N.J., (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Law
New Jersey

Menendez judge denies defense mistrial motion

Menendez is charged with accepting free flights on a private jet and other gifts in exchange for political influence.

8 years ago

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