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Report: Pennsylvanians say they’re fed up with secrecy, manipulation surrounding redistricting — and they can fix it.

The Redistricting Reform Commission's findings and recommendations are out ahead of state lawmakers' return to Harrisburg for fall session — and more debate over the issue.

7 years ago

In this file photo, election workers begin to sort a new batch of ballots collected earlier in the day, Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, in Renton, Wash. Voters in Washington all vote only by mail. (Elaine Thompson/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

N.J. lawmakers seek to clarify, fund state’s vote-by-mail overhaul

The bill appropriates $2 million for counties, which complained the law imposed new requirements on clerks’ offices without money to defray new costs.

7 years ago

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2011, file photo former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Walsh, a former Illinois congressman, says he'll challenge President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020. The tea party favorite argues that Trump is unfit for the White House. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Politics & Policy

Ex-Rep. Joe Walsh to challenge Trump in 2020 GOP primary

"Somebody needs to step up and there needs to be an alternative" among Republicans, Walsh told ABC's "This Week," adding that "the country is sick of this guy's tantrum."

7 years ago

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky walks off the House floor in April. In his chamber, McConnell can decide virtually by himself what the Senate will do — and even what it will consider doing. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

How does one man have so much power without being president?

McConnell's status stems from his office as the Senate majority leader — elected by his party colleagues to lead their conference in the chamber.

7 years ago

Centre County introduced new ES&S voting machines in the primary on May 21, 2019. (Min Xian/WPSU)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Study: Pa. counties spend double when they pick touch-screen voting machines

Costs per voter work out to $12.51 for hand-marked ballot systems versus $23.35 for ballot-marking devices, or BMDs, according to the analysis.

7 years ago

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden meets with supporters before speaking at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Surf Ballroom, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, in Clear Lake, Iowa. (John Locher/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Biden is the Democrat to beat; rivals see signs of weakness

Biden's rivals remain confident that his fumbles, like the one in Iowa this week, eventually will catch up to him, undermining his electability argument.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump tosses a hat during a campaign rally in Montoursville, Pa., Monday, May 20, 2019. (Matt Rourke / The Associated Press)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Poll: Half of Pa. voters plan to vote against Trump in 2020

"It's a surprise given the economy. You would expect a sitting president to be in a much better position."

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to local residents during a community event, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Burlington, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
National Interest
Politics & Policy
National Interest

Hope vs. fear, truth vs. lies: Biden frames the choice in 2020

Joe Biden's speech in Iowa yesterday was an eloquently impassioned shout-out to a benighted nation in dire need of moral ballast.

7 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, talks with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., right, and her mother Blanca Ocasio-Cortez, center, during a ceremonial swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, during the opening session of the 116th Congress. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The roots of and challenges to the Democratic establishment

Ryan Grim charts how “Democratic establishment” developed its political ideology in as well as those who attempted to challenge their authority over the years.

Air Date: August 6, 2019

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Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., talks with a constituent after a veterans event on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, at the Ingham County Fair in Mason, Mich. Slotkin, who flipped the 8th Congressional District by defeating a Republican incumbent in 2018, has not backed an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. (David Eggert/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Impeachment summer? August town halls may decide next steps

Freshman Democratic Rep. Andy Kim came face to face with impeachment fervor at a town hall in New Jersey. "Do your job!" shouted one voter.

7 years ago

(Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

Independents are on the rise in Philly. Could they actually win a City Council seat?

Seven third-party candidates filed to run for City Council — with an eye for the two at-large seats held by Republicans.

7 years ago

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker delivers his closing statement flanked by former Vice President Joe Biden during the Democratic presidential debate in Detroit on Wednesday night. Booker pressed Biden on his record on criminal justice. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Booker says Biden’s crime policies ‘destroyed communities like mine’

Former Vice President Joe Biden has faced questions over his role in crafting the 1994 crime bill, which imposed lengthy sentences for drug offenses.

7 years ago

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., gestures to former Vice President Joe Biden during the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (Paul Sancya/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy
National Interest

The Democratic circular firing squad forgot about Trump

Mired as they were in squabbling among themselves — wading deep into the weeds, yet again, on the abstruse details of health care policy — Donald Trump got off easy.

7 years ago

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., from left, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., participate in the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The Democrats debate

After two nights of Democratic debates, we discuss the issues, the policies, the arguments, the memorable moments and what they say about the party and the upcoming primary,

Air Date: August 1, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Sen. Cory Booker directly challenged former Vice President Joe Biden on criminal justice records during the second night of the Democratic primary debates in Detroit.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Biden bears slings and arrows but battles through another Democratic debate

The second night of the Democratic debates in Detroit did not stray from its predicted script: It was open season on front-runner Joe Biden right from the start.

7 years ago

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