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Keystone Crossroads

Government Accountability

A group of Dauphin County Democrats gathered in Harrisburg to watch election returns come in. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

With election results in, many Pa. Dems optimistic about next year

Onlookers in the commonwealth say they're already ahead looking to 2018.

8 years ago

York City Council President Michael Helfrich, a Republican, embraces a supporter after winning the mayor's race. (Emily Previti/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Democrats dominate major mayors’ races in Pennsylvania

Democrats secured the mayor’s offices in several Pennsylvania cities, although the Republican nominee did win one of the state's most hotly contested races.

8 years ago

Lancaster Central Market is in the city's Community Revitalization & Improvement Zone. The program lets participating cities keep some state taxes to fund redevelopment. (Emily Previti/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Three Pa. cities vary widely in how they take advantage of coveted state ‘improvement zone’ status

The program aims to ignite investment in historically hard-to-develop neighborhoods by allowing developers to use tax revenue to pay off things like construction debt.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's oddly-shaped 7th Congressional district is often cited as an extreme example of gerrymandering.(via govtrack.us)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

U.S. Supreme Court allows lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s congressional map to proceed

A federal lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania's congressional districts will move forward after a decision by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

7 statewide court seats open in upcoming Pa. election

The highest-profile race is for a seat on the state Supreme Court, and seats are also open on the Superior and Commonwealth courts.

8 years ago

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

Wolf approves most of Pa. Legislature-backed revenue plan

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has signed the majority of the revenue plan passed by the Legislature last week — four months past the deadline.

8 years ago

A woman plays the slots at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Dauphin County, Pennylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. revamps policy for casino payments to host communities as it expands gambling opportunities

Changes to the local share tax come after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional last year.

8 years ago

A person plays a slot on a touch-screen tablet
Keystone Crossroads
Money

Pa. House passes final budget piece; ball moves to Wolf’s court

Pennsylvania's House has sent a gambling expansion bill to Gov. Wolf’s desk — effectively finishing the budget lawmakers have labored over for an entire fiscal year.

8 years ago

A man stands at a podium, addressing the press
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

The Pa. state budget could be finished today

After almost four months of false starts and negotiation breakdowns, lawmakers say the end is finally in sight.

8 years ago

Doctor holding medical marijuana
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

County planners come away with more questions than answers on roll out of Pa. medical marijuana

The implementation of medical marijuana in Pennsylvania was the focus of a session Tuesday during the annual conference of Pennsylvania county planners.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Moody’s economic report: Pennsylvania not ready for next recession

Pennsylvania is one of at least 15 states that are substantially underprepared for the next economic downturn, according to a new report from Moody's Analytics.

8 years ago

Clockwise from left to right: Dr. Seth Kaufer, Jessica Tirpak with son, Hunter, Ben Hornberger, Marian and Phil Spotts, Daphne Goggins, and James Bower. (Lindsay Lazarski, Jessica Kourkounis, Margaret Krauss/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Part 4: Trump supporters frustrated by Congress, the media, but still optimistic about the president

Part four in an occasional series where Keystone Crossroads checks in with Trump voters from across Pennsylvania throughout his presidency.

8 years ago

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Advocates supporting the lawsuit that eventually overturned the state's congressional map rallied outside Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman's office in Centre County in October 2017.  (Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Voter advocates urge Pa. Senate leader to reform redistricting process

Fair Districts PA delivered postcards collected from constituents to State Senator Jake Corman’s office, urging reform in redistricting.

8 years ago

In file photo, Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Pa., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Marino, President Donald Trump's former nominee to be the nation's drug czar, is defending his role in writing a law that critics say weakened the government's authority to stop companies from distributing opioids.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Officials working on opioid crisis in Pa. weigh in on Lycoming County’s Marino, who dropped bid to be Trump’s drug czar

“This was a failure of government," said Pa. Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

8 years ago

 A crew works on a drilling rig at a well site for shale-based natural gas in Zelienople, Pennsylvania,  in 2012. A plan for a severance tax on drillers had advanced in the state House.. (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. natural gas tax passes House committee, may hit a wall before full vote

Advancing the plan is a big step for Democrats and moderate Republicans, who have pushed for years to levy the severance tax.

8 years ago

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