Politics & Policy
Casey says sequester cuts starting to hurt
It may have been a little while since you heard talk about “the sequester.” One local lawmaker says it’s unfair and are
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11 years ago
Study shows N.J., Pa. and Del. could profit from immigration reform
Immigration legislation pending in Congress could boost revenue for New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, according to a stud
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11 years ago
Why Republicans should kill the Senate’s so-called immigration reform
Is anyone moved by the fake concern of the most partisan Democrats, like Senators Reid, Schumer, Menendez and Durbin, and liberal editori
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11 years ago
Teresa Heinz Kerry hospitalized
Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was hospitalized in critical bu
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11 years ago
Harrisburg on Philly schools — smoke, mirrors and a sorry replay
Let them eat smoke. Let them frolic before mirrors.
That’s the message Harrisburg sent the schoolchildren of Philadelphia la
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11 years ago
Latest U.S. jobs report, and a warning from Egypt, Brazil and Turkey.
Everyone knows that the fiscal and economic crisis in big cities like Philadelphia, in states like Pennsylvania, and throughout the Unite
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11 years ago
Dozens protest NSA snooping in Philly
While the Fourth of July parade processed nearby, opponents of the federal government’s surveillance of Americans’ Internet a
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11 years ago
The 26th Amendment turns 42 today
The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 on this day
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11 years ago
This week, ‘Here and Now’ becomes even more ‘here,’ for a longer ‘now’
Here’s a fact that many NewsWorks readers know, but some do not:
NewsWorks.org is part of WHYY, the Philadelphia region̵
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11 years ago
Big week for Civil War geeks, as Gettysburg welcomes spotlight
For Civil War geeks, this week is like the Super Bowl.
I know, because I’m a card-carrying member of that clan.
Today
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11 years ago
Senate (again) passes amnesty. High court decides marriage, voting rights.
After invoking cloture, the U.S. Senate on May 25, 2006, adopted the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 by a vote of
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11 years ago
Married gay couples in Philadelphia still in limbo with respect to benefits
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision striking down a key provision of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is widely hailed by advocates
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11 years ago
At Gettysburg, many died so the American idea would not
What did they die for, these young men in blue? And why should it matter now, 150 years later?&n
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11 years ago