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Politics & Policy

 The city and Wilmington and Delaware's two leading universities want to work together to benefit each other. (File/WHYY)
Delaware
Higher Education

Wilmington, UD, Del. State propose ‘unprecedented pact’

The city of Wilmington and Delaware’s two leading universities have agreed to forge what officials are calling an “unpreceden ...

8 years ago

The Capitol dome in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP, file)
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania House GOP delays vote on budget-balancing plan

Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is putting off preliminary votes on measures designed to plug state government’s $2.2 ...

8 years ago

 In a Dec. 16, 2015 file photo, Jazmin Holloway sits below a mural depicting Freddie Gray at the intersection of his arrest, in Baltimore. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo, File)

DOJ won’t bring charges against officers in Baltimore’s Freddie Gray case

The U.S. Department of Justice won’t bring federal charges against six police officers involved in the arrest and death of Freddie ...

8 years ago

 Elizabeth Fielder announces her campaign to unseat state Rep. Bill Keller in the 184th district of South Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Philadelphia

Former reporter Fiedler running for Pa. State House, hoping to unseat Keller in South Philly

Former WHYY reporter Elizabeth Fiedler announced Tuesday she’s getting into politics, running in next year’s Democratic prima ...

8 years ago

Former White House Senior Adviser Steve Bannon, pictured here in this Monday, June 12, 2017, file photo. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)

On ‘Radio Times’: The Bannon effect

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon dished on some of the infighting that’s been going on among the GOP since the elec ...

8 years ago

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 Hillary Clinton speaks at AFL-CIO convention in Philadelphia in April 2016. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
National Interest
Books

Hey, Hillary, we already know what happened

Al Franken said it well last spring: “I love Hillary … and I think she has a right to analyze what happened. But we do have t ...

8 years ago

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., concludes a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, following a House GOP Caucus. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Radio Times

The state of the GOP

Guests: Rick Wilson, John Brabender “The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election.” So ...

Air Date: September 12, 2017

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PlanPhilly
Government Accountability
Real Estate

Developers cheer as L+I adds offices plus inspectors to equal demand from Philly’s real estate boom

8 years ago

 Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg(Kevin McCorry/WHYY, file)

Pa. House members return to budget work

After weeks of deserted Capitol hallways and quiet meetings between Pennsylvania House members, the chamber is officially back in session ...

8 years ago

 U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez talks to reporters last week as he arrives to court for his federal corruption trial in Newark, N.J., as his daughter Alicia Menendez looks on. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Former Menendez aide says visa application advocacy was standard practice

A former aide to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez testified in federal court in Newark Monday that it was not uncommon for the New Jersey Democrat ...

8 years ago

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N.J.’s Republican gubernatorial candidate promising ethics reform, if elected

Republican New Jersey gubernatorial nominee Kim Guadagno said the goal of her ethics reform plan is to restore the public’s faith i ...

8 years ago

The state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., is shown in December 2016. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)
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Aging
Philadelphia

Philly legislative delegation getting younger

The election of Donald Trump has spurred a wave of young, progressive Democrats to seek political office, and many of first-time candidat ...

8 years ago

Philly officials honor sacrifices of 9/11, see resonance in response to hurricane victims

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney joined Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and other elected officials on Monday to remember the thousands who ...

8 years ago

 A man rides through storm water in Naples, Fla., in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. Florida Gov. Rick Scott says there's damage across the state caused by Hurricane Irma and it's still too dangerous for residents to go outside or return from evacuation. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)
National Interest

In Florida, climate change denier Rick Scott can’t connect the dots

How horrifying it has been to track one of America's dire natural disasters. I'm referring to Florida governor Rick Scott.

8 years ago

Some of the attendees at the pro-Trump rally in Georgetown on Saturday stand at attention while the National Anthem plays. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware

Lower Delaware faithful rally to support Donald Trump

Carrying signs with slogans such as “Go Go Trump” and “Bikers for Trump” a small but loyal group of southern Dela ...

8 years ago

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