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Primary day is first test of Pa.’s redrawn congressional map

Pennsylvania voters are heading to the polls Tuesday for the first election under a new congressional map that’s expected to yield ...

7 years ago

People cast their votes at a polling location in South Philadelphia.  (AP File Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)
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On primary day, Republicans and Democrats agree new congressional map may cause confusion

Both Republicans and Democrats expect some party members to show up to the polls on Tuesday and be surprised to learn that their congressional district has changed.

7 years ago

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Pennsylvania has concealed carry permit reciprocity with 29 states . The state Attorney General's hopes to clarify rules for gun owners with a new website. (Seth Perlman/AP Photo, File)
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Pennsylvania launches concealed-carry website to clarify rules for gun owners

The state Attorney General’s office has launched a web ...

7 years ago

Pennsylvania state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe in a file photo from August 2017. (AP, file)
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GOP guts bill proposing independent redistricting commission

The Pennsylvania legislature would get more control over how state legislative boundary lines are drawn under an amended bill that passed ...

7 years ago

A self driving car in Pittsburgh. (Megan Harris/ 90.5 WESA)
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PennDOT announces new regulations for testing self-driving vehicles

Pennsylvania will remain an integral player in the development of self-driving vehicles, but ensuring that the roads are safe must be the ...

7 years ago

The bill under consideration would shrink the Pa. State House from 203 to 151 members. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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What would downsizing Pennsylvania’s legislature actually do?

At 203 members in the House and 50 in the Senate, the commonwealth has the largest full-time legislature in the country.

7 years ago

A towboat pushes barges on the Monongahela river past the skyline of downtown Pittsburgh, March 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Congress’ $1.3 trillion spending bill could mean good things for Pennsylvania waterways

Last week’s 2,200-page omnibus congressional spending bill nearly doubled funding for construction work led by the U.S. Army Corps of E ...

7 years ago

Pennsylvania's new ongressional map as drawn by the Pa. Supreme Court after it found the previous version an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
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Pa. legislature has long history of inaction on redistricting reform bills

Now that legal challenges to Pennsylvania’s new court-drawn congressional map have been rejected, state lawmakers have turned their att ...

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor, a Republican, has called the push for impeaching his Democratic colleagues “an attack upon an independent judiciary.”(WHYY file photo)
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GOP leaders throw cold water on plan to impeach Pa. high court justices

Some Pennsylvania House Republicans urged impeachment after the Democratic-majority state Supreme Court declared the state’s congressional map unconstitutional and redrew it.

7 years ago

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GOP lawmaker introduces resolutions to impeach Pa. Supreme Court justices

A Republican state lawmaker has introduced a number of resolutions to impeach all but one of Pennsylvania’s f ...

7 years ago

The U.S. Supreme Court (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Supreme Court keeps revised Pa. congressional map in place

Court rulings boost Democrats' chances of retaking Congress.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania's new congressional map as drawn by the Pa. Supreme Court.
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Federal judges reject lawsuit over Pennsylvania district map

A panel of federal judges on Monday dismissed a legal challenge by Republican congressmen to a district map imposed last month by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

7 years ago

A rendering of an Accelerated Bridge Construction project, as illustrated by the Michigan Department of Transportation. Two bridges along the Pennsylvania Turnpike were recently built with ABC techniques. PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE/MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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The Florida Bridge Collapse Made Us Wonder: What Is Accelerated Bridge Construction?

Last week, a partially-constructed pedestrian bridge collapsed in Miami, Florida, killing six people and sending more to the hospital. Th ...

7 years ago

State Rep. Nick Miccarelli, R-Delaware (AP, file)
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In Harrisburg, Capitol police will bar lawmaker Miccarelli from building

State Rep. Tarah Toohil, who said Miccarelli stalked and harassed her in 2012, claimed he once brandished a gun and threatened to kill her by crashing his car.

7 years ago

Allentown Mayor Edwin Pawlowski, pictured in this Thursday, July 27, 2017 file photo, announced his resignation days after being found guilty of federal corruption charges. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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Allentown mayor resigns office following corruption conviction

Democrat Ed Pawlowski said Thursday he is leaving the office he's held for a dozen years, effective 5 p.m. Friday.

7 years ago

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