Government Accountability
Here’s where you can check for lead in your school’s drinking water
The Murphy administration has kept its pledge to create a new district-by-district clearinghouse for information on lead contamination in New Jersey schools’ drinking water.
6 years ago
Is Philly City Council doing a good job? We analyzed 15k bills to find out
The increasingly powerful body does a lot of lawmaking, but some issues — like the city’s distressingly high poverty rate — refuse to budge.
6 years ago
What we learned from the first week of impeachment hearings
The first week of Trump impeachment inquiry hearings is in the books.
6 years ago
NPR
Betsy DeVos and the high-stakes standoff over student loan forgiveness
According to the most recent federal data, as of June 2019 more than 210,000 borrowers were waiting to have their claims processed under a 1995 rule known as borrower defense.
6 years ago
Pa. couldn’t process unemployment for four days. Now 2,500 people may get late checks.
It’s unclear exactly what went wrong with the commonwealth’s dated system, but from Thursday to Sunday, a crash kept unemployed people from filing claims.
6 years ago
Pennsylvania’s liquor board is posting record profits. That worries some lawmakers.
Republicans in the state legislature have long pushed to privatize the commonwealth’s state-run liquor industry.
6 years ago
Fact check: Is the Trump impeachment process different from Nixon and Clinton?
For the third time in almost 46 years, the House of Representatives has voted to begin a formal impeachment inquiry into the actions of the sitting president.
6 years ago
Law to give taxpayer money to Delaware sports facility would benefit sponsor’s brother
State Sen. John Paradee’s bill would direct tax money to a youth sports complex, possibly benefiting his brother’s planned hotel/shopping project.
6 years ago
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N.J.’s Van Drew one of two Democratic ‘no’ votes on impeachment resolution
“Without bipartisan support I believe this inquiry will further divide the country tearing it apart at the seams and will ultimately fail in the Senate,” Van Drew said.
6 years ago
House members launch a plan they say will make Pa.’s pensions more transparent
The bills are in their early days, but they’ve already gotten early rebukes from staff for one of two pension systems.
6 years ago
The 10 most extravagant or bizarre campaign expenses by Pa. state lawmakers
Campaign accounts must be used for “influencing the outcome of an election.” But what qualifies is largely open to interpretation.
6 years ago
People with intellectual disabilities, and their jobs, at center of lawsuit against Pennsylvania
At issue is whether the state should have reduced funds to employers who hire people with intellectual disabilities.
6 years ago
Impeachment inquiry update: What the past week revealed about the Ukraine affair
President Trump deputized lawyer Rudy Giuliani to run a shadow foreign policy for Ukraine outside the State Department, witnesses told Congress this past week.
6 years ago
Coerced to confess, Philly man exonerated after 27 years
Why there could be more cases like Willy Veasy's as the Philly DA's office investigates allegations of coerced confessions and bad convictions.
Air Date: October 17, 2019
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The Conversation
How to know which impeachment polls to believe – and which to skip
Pollsters are trying their best to track public opinion about the House Democrats’ decision to initiate an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
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