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Elections

Former Deputy Mayor Rich Lazer (second from right) launches his congressional race at a South Philadelphia playground.
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Electricians union Local 98 gives $200,000 to super PAC

A super PAC backed by Electricians Local 98 has formed a super PAC to help Philadelphia congressional candidate Rich Lazer.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, April 17, 2018

One person is dead after a Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Philadelphia. Experts say the city’s police depar ...

Air Date: April 17, 2018

Listen 21:50
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and legislative leaders held dueling news conferences after hours of meetings late Friday to announce their inability to come to a budget deal,. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo, file)
Politics & Policy

N.J. Gov. signs bill requiring automatic voter registration

The measure makes New Jersey the 12th state along with the District of Columbia to have automatic voter registration.

8 years ago

U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa.  (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Dent to leave Congress — another Pa. special election coming

Republican U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent of the Lehigh Valley says he'll resign from Congress in the coming weeks

8 years ago

Republican Rob Arlett announces his campaign for U.S. Senate in Wilmington. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delaware Republican Arlett launches campaign for U.S. Senate

Sussex County Councilman Rob Arlett announced his campaign for Senate during a three-county tour of Delaware.

8 years ago

File photo: New Jersey State Capitol building in Trenton. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

New Jersey could make voter registration easier

Advocates say boosting registration will help create a more inclusive democracy.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania businessman Paul Mango (left) and state Sen. Scott Wagner, R-York, are engaged in an increasingly nasty campaign for the GOP nod to take on Gov. Tom Wolf in November. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Attacks in Pennsylvania governor’s race getting personal

Campaigning for GOP nomination, Scott Wagner and Paul Mango are trading intensely personal shots in their ad war.

8 years ago

Listen 3:57
A cloud of smoke rises following a U.S.-led air strike attack near Baghdad on arch 20, 2003.
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

With murmurs of war growing, 2018 could be a national security election

The Iraq War’s disastrous aftermath offered my younger self a harsh lesson: Our great and generous nation can be ruled — and also diminished — by mediocre men.

8 years ago

Republican candidates for governor of Pennsylvania, Paul Mango, (left), and Scott Wagner, (right), participate in a debate at the National Constitution Center. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Politics & Policy

Despite conflicting claims, it’s unclear who’s really ahead in Pa. GOP primary

Too little information is ultimately available to assess where the primary race stands with potential voters.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe in a file photo from August 2017. (AP, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

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 ...

8 years ago

Laura Ellsworth, a lawyer from suburban Pittsburgh and a first-time candidate, answers questions from the panel during a debate between Republican Gubernatorial candidates at Harrisburg Area Community College in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, March 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Ellsworth tries to break through noise in Pennsylvania governor’s race

Republican gubernatorial candidate Laura Ellsworth is facing state Sen. Scott Wagner and businessman Paul Mango in the May 15 primary.

8 years ago

Listen 6:07
Pennsylvania state State Rep. Mary Jo Daley has ended her bid for the newly created 4th Congressional District centered on Montgomery County. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Daley, two others drop congressional bids in Philly suburbs

Suburban congressional candidates Mary Jo Daley, Shelly Chauncey, and George Badey end their congressional campaigns.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Pa. governor’s race

Guests: John Baer, Dave Davies The Pennsylvania governor’s race is heating up with the May 15 primary approaching.  Three R ...

Air Date: April 6, 2018

Listen 17:47
Thirteen of the 14 Democratic candidates for Pennsylvania's newly drawn 5th Congressional District debate at Upper Darby High School.
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Political pageant for Delaware County Democrats

After years in the wilderness, the Delaware County Democratic Party can pick a congressional candidate — and it has 14 to choose from.

8 years ago

Listen 4:31
Rebecca Dallet
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Wisconsin’s voters churn the burgeoning blue wave

We have a choice today. We could parse Cadet Bone Spurs’ faux-macho decision to militarize the Mexican border by sending the Nation ...

8 years ago

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