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Pennsylvania

A student walks on the Lock Haven University campus in Lock Haven, Pa, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. lawmakers debate plan to consolidate state universities

Democrats are skeptical of the projected savings and worry about job loss. PASSHE leaders say inaction will lead to “worse outcomes.”

4 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman stands at a podium
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

One ritzy fundraiser shows how tough selling lobbying reform in Pa. will be

A campaign event for Jake Corman, the top Republican in the state Senate, is being organized by a company that has cornered the market on a political practice he wants to end.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania Supreme Court (Christopher Millette / PennLive)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Pa. Supreme Court picks former Pitt chancellor to chair powerful redistricting commission

The Pa. Supreme Court announced that it had appointed Mark Nordenberg to the Legislative Reapportionment Commission.

4 years ago

Amanda Holt holds up Pa. House and Senate maps
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Are Pa.’s state House and Senate maps gerrymandered? Depends on how you measure them

While a court declared Pennsylvania's previous congressional map was drawn to benefit Republicans, the current legislative maps have not faced the same level of scrutiny.

4 years ago

A bike is pictured at an overlook just before Ohiopyle.
Keystone Crossroads
Community

No prizes, few rules. To Crush the Commonwealth, just ‘ride yer damn bike’ across Pa.

Follow the brave souls who biked 380.3 miles across Pennsylvania, from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, for the 2021 Crush the Commonwealth ride.

4 years ago

Listen 4:42
A person's hand holds a pen to the Pa. Constitution
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

Should Pennsylvania amend its constitution to prohibit discrimination based on race and ethnicity? (ballot question)

The concepts in this ballot question aren't debatable, but they're not yet formally enshrined at a state level.

4 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf addresses the media alongside a group of other state and local leaders
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

Should Pennsylvania strip the governor’s disaster declaration powers? (ballot question)

Republicans in the state legislature pushed for this ballot measure after being stymied in other efforts to roll back Wolf’s emergency COVID order.

4 years ago

State Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (R-Westmoreland) pitches voters on voting up a pair of constitutional amendments that would limit the governor's future emergency powers on Apr. 20, 2021.
Politics & Policy

‘The next chess move’: Emergency powers ballot questions set the stage for a balance-of-power showdown in Pa.

Since last year, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has defended the executive actions his administration took to limit the coronavirus’ spread.

4 years ago

A five-member commission is tasked with drawing new state House and Senate maps every 10 years. (Madhuri Shukla for Spotlight PA)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Pa. Supreme Court will pick chair of powerful state redistricting panel

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will pick the chair of a powerful redistricting panel after the General Assembly’s top leaders failed to agree.

4 years ago

(Commonwealth Media Services)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Oversight of Pa. recovery homes stalls as officials, advocates disagree on best approach

A state department said a licensing program with financial and safety requirements for recovery homes will save lives, but advocates are pushing back on the added costs.

4 years ago

In this Feb. 25, 2021, file photo, Rachel Levine, nominated to be an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP)
Health

Pa. coronavirus update: Levine says Philly FEMA clinics offering ‘light at the end of the tunnel’

Pa.’s former Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, who now serves in that role at the federal level, visited the FEMA vaccination clinic in Center City.

4 years ago

The proposed PennEast pipeline would pass through the fields of the Christman farm, seen from the intersection of Station Street and Pohopoco Drive in Lehighton. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

SCOTUS hears arguments in eminent domain case involving PennEast pipeline project

The 116-mile pipeline would ship Marcellus Shale gas from Luzerne County in Northeast Pennsylvania across the Delaware River to Mercer County, New Jersey.

4 years ago

Registered nurse Pat DeHorsey draws a dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Health

Pa. coronavirus update: Montco cases on the decline, vaccine clinic locations shuffle

With the Johnson & Johnson vaccine back online, Montgomery County is changing some COVID-19 vaccination sites.

4 years ago

Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. moves forward on plan to merge 6 state universities into 2

The plan calls for three universities in the northeastern part of the state to merge, as well as three schools in the west.

4 years ago

This Feb. 10, 2020 photo shows slot machines at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City, N.J. that are controlled by gamblers over the internet. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Radio Times

Internet gambling, sports betting and addiction

Online gambling and sports betting are booming and you can now play 24/7 from any device. But all this access and convenience has some worried about a rise in addiction.

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