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Pennsylvania

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Money

Aqua Pennsylvania looks to increase suburban water bills by 17% for up to 490,000 customers

The company has filed a rate request with the state Public Utility Commission, seeking to increase water bills by 17% and wastewater bills by 33%.

4 years ago

The Pennsylvania state Capitol in winter
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. ends ‘prison gerrymandering’ with closely divided committee vote

The commission redrawing Pa.’s House and Senate maps has voted to stop counting state prisoners as residents of the districts where they’re incarcerated.

4 years ago

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Philadelphia election workers process mail and absentee ballots for the 2020 general election
Politics & Policy

Hearings in Pa. election ‘investigation’ to begin, senator says

Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman said he has communicated with Trump, whose baseless claims about election fraud have propelled loyalists to pursue election "audits."

4 years ago

Rabbi Julie Greenberg rallies protesters during a daylong action at PES refinery in South Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Climate activists set their sights on the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

The Public Utility Commission has sway on everything from pipeline safety to utility rates. A grassroots effort seeks members to address climate change.

4 years ago

Fifty years ago, Bonnie Raines and Keith Forsyth were among a group of activists who broke into an FBI office in Media, Pa. and made off with classified documents exposing illegal FBI investigations. They are standing at the site where a historical marker will commemorate the break-in. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

How to break into the FBI: 50 years later, Media burglars get local honors

The confidential files they stole in 1971 revealed widespread surveillance of the American public and the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO operation.

4 years ago

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A chart shows a TANF enrollment decline over the course of a decade.
Keystone Crossroads
Money

New report urges changes to Pennsylvania’s 1990s-era TANF benefit

The Meet the Need Coalition surveyed more than 350 current or past recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; many found it too restrictive.

4 years ago

In 2020, Pennsylvania regulators approved a now-abandoned rule that would have extended automatic overtime pay to salaried employees earning between roughly $36,000 and $45,000 a year, many of whom work as managers in the retail and food service industries. Today, only those who earn below the $36,000 federal threshold are guaranteed extra pay for extra hours. (Megan Harris / WESA)
Politics & Policy

Overtime pay for up to 190K workers died in Harrisburg this summer. Why aren’t more people upset?

The now-abandoned rule could have extended overtime protections for an estimated 190,000 workers.

4 years ago

(Chester Upland School District)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

No education experience: Chester Upland residents baffled by judge’s choice for new school district receiver

Over Pa. Education Department objections, Nafis Nichols, the City of Chester’s chief financial officer, was named interim receiver.

4 years ago

Chelsea's Christian Pulisic kicks the ball during a training session at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. Chelsea and Villarreal will meet in the UEFA Super Cup in Belfast
Health

Hershey native Pulisic tests positive for virus ahead of World Cup qualifiers

United States soccer star Christian Pulisic has tested positive for COVID-19 less than two weeks before United States players begin reporting for camp.

4 years ago

Pro-Trump insurrectionists gesture to U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber at the Capitol
Politics & Policy
WITF

F&M poll shows a majority of conservative Pennsylvanians view 1/6 attack negatively

State and congressional Republicans have all but avoided talking about the attack, and Franklin and Marshall College poll results offer some insight on that.

4 years ago

Two parents held signs outside the North Penn school district board meeting against mask mandates in the classrooms
Keystone Crossroads
Education

North Penn School Board mandates masks for all students, as parents remain divided

A week after a raucous work session featuring altercations among parents, the board in Montco’s largest district voted unanimously to require masking.

4 years ago

The Philly skyline along the Schuylkill River.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

New census numbers herald potential political power for Philadelphia’s growing Latino, Asian populations

The last decade brought Philadelphia its biggest population jump since 1950. The number of Black and white residents declined, while Latino and Asian numbers spiked.

4 years ago

County solicitor Christine Sadler, Commissioner Chair Christian Leinbach and Commissioner Michael Rivera at Thursday's meeting
Courts & Law
WITF

Berks County to detain asylum-seeking immigrant women for feds

The county-owned facility is no longer holding immigrant families.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin, center, speaks to supporters of President Donald Trump
Politics & Policy

Pa. Sen. Mastriano’s plan to issue election subpoenas ‘stopped’

Mastriano, who has helped spread Trump's baseless claims that the election was stolen from him in Pennsylvania, also said he has “been stopped for the time being.”

4 years ago

Mel and Olga Cohen stand on their front porch, with a fallen tree on their lawn
Weather

Tornado hit Bucks and Montco, National Weather Service says

After a storm survey, the National Weather Service says a tornado touched down in the Souderton area early Thursday morning.

4 years ago

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