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Politics & Policy

 Philadelphia City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Councilman says violence should receive same urgency as hurricane relief

A Philadelphia City Councilman says the  murder rate in  might be addressed better with a new approach. Councilman Kenyatta John ...

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Centre. (AP file photo)
Pennsylvania

Pa. Senate hits restart on budget negotiations

The GOP-controlled Pennsylvania Senate has formally rejected a conservative budget plan passed by the House — essentially resetting neg ...

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Government Accountability

Amazon HQ2 RFP asks for just one bid per region, so Philly submits three

8 years ago

(Bas Slabbers/ for NewsWorks)

Pennsylvania changing ‘Motor Voter’ to keep noncitizens from registering to vote

PennDOT — Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation — announced Wednesday it’s changing its “Motor Voter” s ...

8 years ago

Philadelphia City Council members (from right) Helen Gym, Bobby Henon and Derek Green appear before the city Board of Ethics to describe a campaign-finance proposal. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Philadelphia

Philly Ethics Board backs public financing for campaigns

The Philadelphia Board of Ethics has approved a proposal to use city tax dollars to fund the campaigns of candidates for political office ...

8 years ago

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

Pennsylvania takes credit ratings hit amid budget fight

Pennsylvania’s credit rating took its latest hit Wednesday, another black eye in a nearly three-month budget stalemate that has pit ...

8 years ago

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., center, listens as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, speaks, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
National Interest
Insurance

The GOP’s medical credo: ‘First, do harm’

So here we go again with the Republican quest to wreck the health care coverage of tens of millions of Americans. If you’re sick of ...

8 years ago

(NewsWorks file photo)
Pennsylvania

Pa. Senate won’t concur on conservative House plan

Pennsylvania state Senators are trying to figure out how to move forward on the stalled state budget. They’re planning to fo ...

8 years ago

Gov. Chris Christie says he's pledging $200 million to boost the fight against opioid addiction.
 (Photo courtesy of N.J. Governor's Office)
New Jersey
Public Health

Gov. Christie pledges $200 million to boost N.J. opioid addiction programs

Gov. Chris Christie is detailing his plan to shift $200 million from New Jersey’s budget for new initiatives to combat the opioid c ...

8 years ago

Philadelphia has agreed to pay two individuals $250,000 after they were targeted by police for filming officers on duty. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Philadelphia

Citing labor costs, Philly mulls service cuts

Philadelphia may be in for some service cuts as it struggles to pay for new municipal labor contracts, according to a city official. ...

8 years ago

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In this file photo, Sen. Bob Menendez talk to reporters as he arrives to court for his federal corruption trial in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
National Interest
Business

Hillary’s Wall Street talks: ‘I shouldn’t have assumed it would be OK’

In 1977, three years out of power, Richard Nixon catalogued his self-inflicted Watergate mistakes. Referring to his political opponents, ...

8 years ago

In 1971, John and Bonnie Raines and six other activists broke into the FBI offices in Media in order to expose the bureau's effort to suppress dissent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
History

Philly couple who exposed Vietnam-era FBI secrets say democracy needs whistleblowers

It was Bonnie Raines’ job to case the joint. Her target: the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. If all went according to pla ...

8 years ago

 In 1971, John and Bonnie Raines and six other activists broke into the FBI offices in Media in order to expose the bureau's effort to suppress dissent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
History
Law
Policing

Philly activists who burglarized Hoover’s FBI call for more whistleblowers

If all went according to plan, Raines and fellow anti-war activists would pull off a burglary that would go down in history as exposing J ...

8 years ago

 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is shown speaking to aides on her campaign plane, in White Plains, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)
National Interest

Hillary is right about the mainstream media

Hillary Clinton’s new cri de coeur discomfits the many Democrats who yearn to put 2016 in the rea ...

8 years ago

 Erie public school advocates rally in the state capitol in 2016 when Jay Badams (center) was superintendent. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Income Inequality
K-12
Pennsylvania

Fair funding advocates decry Pa. leaders for playing politics with specialty school money

For years in Pennsylvania, school funding coming from state government was criticized as being irrational, unpredictable, and too-tied to ...

8 years ago

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