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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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Community members held signs in support of a DREAM act and DACA recipients outside Rep. Glenn Thompson's Centre County office in September. (Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
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Local leaders in State College urge congressman to support DREAM Act

State College Mayor Elizabeth Goreham asked Congressman Thompson to support the passage of a DREAM act.

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Kayla Watkins took part in a roundtable discussion on ways of ending harassment on the street. Watkins says it's a
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Street harassment is defined on a continuum that starts with catcalls and sexually explicit remarks and extends to slurs, groping, stalking and assault.

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Pa. Ballot Question / Conservative media / Foreign lobbying

Guests: Ryan Briggs, Callum Borchers,  Theodoric Meyer        We begin today’s show discussing the ball ...

Air Date: November 2, 2017

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 Pennsylvania State Capitol (WITF, file)
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Federal tax uncertainty casts doubt on Pa. revenue estimates

Four months into the fiscal year, Pennsylvania’s revenues are more or less on target. A new report from the state Independent Fi ...

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With profits way up, but patronage way down, will GOP-controlled PPA keep interim executive director?

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Former Philadelphia City Councilman Jimmy Tayoun dead at 87

He reinvented himself after pleading guilty to corruption and serving time. Most recently Jimmy Tayoun was best known for his newspaper the Philadelphia Public Record.

8 years ago

Philadelphia district attorney candidates Larry Krasner and Beth Grossman.
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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.

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

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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

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