Pennsylvania Archives - Page 356 of 363

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey stands in a conference room at his Philadelphia office. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

As President Donald Trump and Congress undertake an overhaul of the U.S. tax code this fall, Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is likely ...

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Bill Cosby walks from the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Friday, June 9, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

Courts & Law

Judge sets date for Cosby retrial on sexual assault charges

A judge has scheduled a new date for Bill Cosby’s retrial on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago. ...

5 years ago

Philadelphia City Commissioners (from left) Anthony Clark, Lisa Deeley, and Al Schmidt, review write-in votes from the 197th legislative district special election in which more than 90 percent of the votes were write-ins. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Courts & Law

Two losing Pa. House candidates ask court for new election

Two losing candidates in a special election to for Pennsylvania State Representative seat in the 197th District argued in federal c ...

5 years ago

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh speaks in view of a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's ChildlLine during a news conference, Thursday, July 12, 2012, in Philadelphia. After an eight-month inquiry, Freeh's firm produced a 267-page report that concluded that Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other youngsters. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

Courts & Law

Report: Pennsylvania child abuse workers swamped, underpaid

The county caseworkers who investigate child abuse in Pennsylvania are underpaid, inadequately trained, plagued by high turnover and face ...

5 years ago

House Democrats and Republicans held an intense Rules Committee hearing on the bill before sending it to the full floor. It saw several more hours of debate there. (Katie Meyer/WITF)

Money

Pa. House narrowly passes a tax-free budget funding plan

The state House of Representatives has narrowly voted to move a budget plan built largely on one-time fund transfers. Although it ...

5 years ago

Mentor Frantz Herr (left) and returning citizen Isaac Rivera (right) have a discussion before the Lancaster County re-entry program at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (Bradley C. Bower/Philadelphia Inquirer)

Courts & Law

Lancaster knows how to keep people out of jail, but it’s expensive

After nearly two decades in prison, Isaac Rivera was ready to remake himself. The 41-year-old from Lancaster served time after a 1 ...

5 years ago

Listen

Pennsylvania's state capitol building in Harrisburg (WITF)

Politics & Policy

Pa. House cobbles together new budget plan, light on recurring dollars

After negotiations briefly stalled Tuesday, the House is on the verge of passing a GOP-authored plan to balance a $2.2 billion dollar gap ...

5 years ago

$A view of the Delaware River from Morrisville, Pa. The Delaware River Basin Commission voted Wednesday on a resolution that could result in a ban on fracking in the Basin.$

StateImpact Pennsylvania

Science

DRBC takes a step toward banning fracking in Northeast Pa.

5 years ago

In this 2017 photo, protesters in Harrisburg call on lawmakers to support redistricting reform. (Katie Meyer/WITF)

Courts & Law

Ralliers try to convince Pa. lawmakers to act on gerrymandering

Advocates for overhauling the redistricting process packed the Capitol rotunda in Harrisburg Tuesday hoping to persuade lawmakers to take ...

5 years ago

The Pennsylvania Economy League ranked municipalities according to their tax base (high is good) and tax burden (low is good), then combined scores and used the resulting list to divide them into quintiles. Quintile 1 indicates a larger tax base and lower tax burden per household; 5 indicates the least tax base and most tax burden per household. (Source: Pennsylvania Economy League)

Keystone Crossroads

Money

Municipal distress getting worse in Pennsylvania, new data show

The Pennsylvania Economy League released a report on Tuesday showing predictions in its last study have borne out. That’s no ...

5 years ago

The Capitol dome in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP, file)

Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania House GOP delays vote on budget-balancing plan

Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is putting off preliminary votes on measures designed to plug state government’s $2.2 ...

5 years ago

In 2015 Wolf met with elected officials and landowners from Wayne County to discuss the moratorium on natural gas development in the Delaware River Basin. Several people in the meeting say he offered to help them open up the region to drilling, if they would help him enact a severance tax.

StateImpact Pennsylvania

Science

Landowners: Wolf suggested opening Delaware River Basin to gas drilling in 2015

5 years ago

$Dan Plummer fishes for trout in the Delaware River, Delaware County New York. The Delaware River Basin Commission has proposed a ban on fracking along the river.$