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Pennsylvania

Cheyenne Snow
Community
Spotlight PA

A vital rental assistance program is riddled with problems as Pa. prepares to resume evictions

A Spotlight PA review found many landlords have refused to participate, and lawmakers have failed to take action despite warnings the program is failing.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Chief Justice Thomas Saylor. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Courts & Law

Chief justice says ethics board sent him ‘letter of inquiry’

The probe apparently concerns allegations that Chief Justice Thomas Saylor may have improperly interfered in disciplinary matters involving former Justice Cynthia Baldwin.

6 years ago

A resident is pictured using a wheelchair inside a nursing home.
Health

Justice Department asks N.J., Pa. for data on nursing home coronavirus policies

The Justice Department is asking whether policies “may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents.”

6 years ago

Salon Vizions stylist Michaela Slayton colors Paulette Fultz hair with Personal Protection Equipment on and Fultz wears a mask with a disposable gown on in Johnstown, Pa, Friday, June 5, 2020. (Todd Berkey/The Tribune-Democrat via AP)
Courts & Law
Broke in Philly

Pa. court says you can’t deny cosmetology license based on ‘moral character’

There’s a growing consensus in Pennsylvania that laws allowing professional license denials based on “moral character” are useless. A court has concurred.

6 years ago

(Dan Nott for Spotlight PA)
Health
Spotlight PA

‘You’ve got to do something’: Pa. rehabs buckle, begin to close under COVID-19 strain

In a hearing before lawmakers Tuesday, treatment providers, advocates, and state officials warned that the industry has not received dedicated coronavirus relief funding

6 years ago

Las Madres de Berks
Community

Las Madres de Berks: Stories of detained immigrant families — and the fight to shutter Pa.’s oldest family prison

Filmmaker Michelle Ortiz produced Las Madres de Berks to share the stories of detained immigrant families and the fight to close down the state’s oldest family prison.

6 years ago

Chambersburg, Pa. (Jeffrey Stockbridge for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Republican DA who supported George Floyd protesters censured by local GOP

In a letter to Franklin County’s Republican DA, the county GOP committee said the party was formally withdrawing support for future elections.

6 years ago

The exterior of The Pennsylvania Capitol
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Thwarted at every turn, Pa. GOP lawmakers hatch new plan to undermine Wolf’s emergency powers

Republicans in the legislature unhappy with Gov. Tom Wolf’s response to the coronavirus pandemic are plotting two new efforts to curtail his emergency powers.

6 years ago

In this July 7, 2020 photo a woman drops off a mail-in ballot at a drop box in Hackensack, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Politics & Policy

No bipartisan fix to Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting in sight

Republican state Senate leaders introduced legislation that Democrats quickly opposed as restricting access to voting.

6 years ago

police car lights flashing
Community
Spotlight PA

Peaceful civil rights marchers shot at in Pa. while on trek from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C.

A white Bedford County man shot into a crowd of about 50 peaceful civil rights marchers who were crossing through Pennsylvania during a pilgrimage from Milwaukee to D.C.

6 years ago

Reading, Pa.
Politics & Policy

Wolf: Pennsylvania eviction moratorium to lapse Aug. 31

The Democrat called on state lawmakers in the Republican-controlled General Assembly to pass legislation to extend the statewide moratorium.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf
Politics & Policy

Wolf asks lawmakers to legalize pot, spend coronavirus funds

Pennsylvania's governor is urging lawmakers to legalize recreational marijuana and spend down the remaining $1.3 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds.

6 years ago

A voter casts a mail-in ballot at a drop box in West Chester, Pa., prior to the June 2 primary election. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Battleground 2020: Mail-in voting

Pennsylvania's battle with the USPS, Joe Biden's narrow lead in the state, and the ins and outs of voting this November.

Air Date: August 25, 2020

Listen 49:30
Becky Ansel is a violinist who’s been out of work since the pandemic started. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community
Broke in Philly

Locked out of the economy: Unemployed workers face mounting fiscal, emotional stress

For families, a financial freeze is the first fallout from being out of work for months, but the effects can go deeper. There is also “an emotional crisis.”

6 years ago

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Crews worked on Monday Jan. 21 to stabilize a new sinkhole that opened up at Lisa Drive, a suburban development in West Whiteland Township, Chester County where Sunoco operates its Mariner East pipelines. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sunoco asks Environmental Hearing Board to block new DEP shutdown of troubled Chester County drilling site

Company says prolonged pause at West Whiteland will harm public interest.

6 years ago

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