Politics & Policy
Amidst all the other scandals confronting the Obama administration, from concealed VA waiting lists to the release of five Taliban leader ...
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Panel reviews possible Pa. Fish-Game merger
A study that says Pennsylvania could save about $5 million a year by merging its fish and game commissions is generating divided opinions ...
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What if your daily performance got analyzed on Baseball Tonight?
Have you hired your personal data analyst yet? The New York Times last week reported on how professional athletes are now hiring p ...
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ListenVA audit: Pressured schedulers masked wait times
A preliminary audit of widespread health care problems for veterans concludes that VA schedulers were pressured to make waiting times for ...
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A puff and a lather on the Pa. campaign trail
Expenditure lists can help illuminate the day-to-day workings of a modern statewide political campaign. The road to the Pennsylvan ...
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Budget talks begin as Pa. revenue shortfall widens
State lawmakers return to Harrisburg this week for the relatively action-packed month of June. It’s a time reserved for finalizing ...
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Same-sex couples married last year in Pa. await state blessing of pre-emptive weddings
174 couples in Pennsylvania are left with questions about their marital status since a federal judge’s decision last week striking ...
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Who’s right about increasing inequality, Thomas Piketty or his critics?
French economist Thomas Piketty’s latest book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, has attracted both praise and criticism for its ...
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In answer to VA scandal, Toomey proposes allowing vets to sue health workers
In the wake of the scandal over treatment delays and mismanagement in the VA system, U.S. Sen. ...
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Who played the villain in last week’s Pa. primaries? The ‘voters’
Last Tuesday, Pennsylvania offered all of its adult citizens a major say in the future of our Commonwealth. And about five out of ...
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Breaking bread and mending fences, former Dem rivals vow to support Wolf
Mere days after a brutal campaign season ended, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf had breakfast Friday with the three rivals ...
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Pa. voters may cast him out, but gay GOP lawmaker is on solid ground
As the vote count continues to determine whether he’ll be a candidate in November, Pennsylvania’s first openly gay lawmaker i ...
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Philly voters prefer city candidates to ‘resign to run’ for another office
Philadelphia voters have rejected a controversial measure that would have allowed city politicians to keep their posts while campaigning ...
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Wolf trounces Democrats, will take on Gov. Corbett in fall
York businessman Tom Wolf cruised to an easy victory in the Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial primary, setting up a race with Gov. To ...
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Tom Wolf declared winner of Democratic gov. primary, Boyle takes Dem. nod in 13th
Months of candidate strategizing and fundraising get put to the test today as voters conduct the one poll that actually counts: the Penns ...
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