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Q&A: Lynne Abraham on L&I, councilmanic prerogative, protected bike lanes and more

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Cubans welcome historic Castro-Obama meeting, want results

Cubans are hailing the historic meeting between presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama but say they want to see their lives improve fast ...

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Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (AP file photo)

Montgomery County judge orders Kane to court to explain firing top deputy

Attorney General Kathleen Kane will have to answer to a Montgomery County judge for firing a top deputy in her office. In an order ...

11 years ago

Christie PAC committing $100K to GOP candidates, parties

The political action committee supporting Chris Christie has begun doling out money to Republican lawmakers and party organizations in ke ...

11 years ago

 John Stribula, president of Allentown’s firefighter union, said the benefits were too good to pass up.  He retired in 2011. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Is it fair for city workers to use overtime to spike their pensions?

We’ll explore that question, and tell you about a spiking saga that unfolded in Allentown. At the end of 2011, the city of A ...

11 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads

What do you think? Share your ideas about pensions with Keystone Crossroads

Our reporting about Pennsylvania’s municipal pensions is not complete. We want to hear from you. Nearly half of local govern ...

11 years ago

 David Carmichael, director of Pennsylvania State Archives, looks though one of many boxes that holds permanent pension records in Harrisburg, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Quick facts about pensions

Here’s some help with those terms and ideas you hear and want to understand better. In reporting our ...

11 years ago

 Homer City Police Chief, Louis Sacco, is one of just three people in the borough's police pension plan. The borough pays high administrative fees for the plan's management. (Irina Zhorov/WESA)
Keystone Crossroads

For Pa. small towns, there are better ways to manage pension plans

The very nature of how pensions are organized in the Commonwealth makes them unwieldy and inefficient. Homer City Police Chief, Lo ...

11 years ago

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A view of downtown Scranton. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

How Scranton’s pension system took a nosedive and what other cities can learn from it

Underfunded pensions are a problem across the state, but Scranton is in particularly dire straits. Underfunded pensions are a prob ...

11 years ago

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 Alex and Courtney Hayden at home. (Kate Lao Shaffner/WPSU)
Keystone Crossroads

Are young municipal workers bearing the brunt of pension reform?

For municipalities, reforming pensions often means changing retirement benefits for the newest workers. Many Pennsylvania municipa ...

11 years ago

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 Data Source: Pennsylvania Public Employee Retirement Commission's 2014 report.
Keystone Crossroads

Mapping out Pennsylvania’s distressed municipal pension plans

Zoom in on the map to find the municipalities with distressed pension plans near you. In the United States, only about 4 percent o ...

11 years ago

Government officials, politicians and labor leaders gather for a rally at Dilworth Park to demand federal funding for transportation infrastructure improvements. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Pa. officials join in calling on Congress to come up with more funds for roads and bridges

On what’s been dubbed National Transportation Infrastructure Day, Pennsylvania and federal officials gathered outside Philadelphia& ...

11 years ago

 An evening at the Pen and Pencil Club; A view from the first floor. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

NewsWorks podcast: ‘Upstairs at the P&P’ offers unfiltered opinions on Philly politics

Ever wonder what political journalists talk about when they’re schmoozing after hours?  NewsWorks’ new podcast “Upstairs at th ...

11 years ago

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 Mayoral candidate Lynne Abraham, flanked by rivals Nelson Diaz and Jim Kenney, takes notes Tuesday night during the debate. She later collapsed on the stage. (Katie Colaneri/WHYY)

Lynne Abraham collapses during Philly mayoral debate [video]

Philadelphia mayoral candidate Lynne Abraham fainted Tuesday night during the first televised debate of the campaign. About 10 min ...

11 years ago

Republicans in Congress talk about what to do if Supreme Court upends Obamacare

The last time the Supreme Court took up so called Obamacare, it surprised court watchers by ruling the individual health insurance mandat ...

11 years ago

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