Pennsylvania
Pa. health secretary denounces transphobic attacks: ‘Our children are watching’
Pennsylvania’s top health official on Tuesday denounced a recent series of transphobic attacks against her, saying she felt compelled to personally address the discrimination.
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Pa. DEP urged to close ‘loopholes’ in new regulation on VOCs and methane
Cutting VOCs would help environmental justice communities that are disproportionately affected by poor air quality.
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Campaigns bring dueling messages to Pennsylvania this week
Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 by less than 1 percentage point. No Democrat has won the presidency without winning Pennsylvania since Harry S. Truman in 1948.
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Free speech and firearms raise tensions in suburban Pennsylvania
Activists come armed to protests in a mansion-lined neighborhood in Berks County.
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Battleground 2020: 100 days out
In the latest installment of Battleground 2020, we look at the polls, the issues, and the discussions within the Democratic party about Biden's platform and messaging.
Air Date: July 28, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 49:29Millions of paycheck protection dollars went to Pennsylvania lobbyists
PPP money isn’t supposed to go to businesses primarily engaged in lobbying. Pa. lobbyists who received the money say it’s only part of their business.
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Death reports are still lagging. Pa. hasn’t made it easy to find out just how badly.
It’s one of many instances of the state dropping the ball on best data practices. Instead of making its COVID data easy to view and scrutinize, the state has limited access.
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Gov. Tom Wolf will allow transparency bill to become law despite veto threat
Wolf had argued Grove’s bill was flawed and would endanger state workers by forcing them to return to offices during an emergency, like the current pandemic.
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‘It’s the new normal’: Drive-in concertgoers embrace a new summer venue
Drive-ins are the socially distant live music venues of the summer of 2020. “I don’t ever want it to stop,” said one concertgoer at People’s Light in Malvern.
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Listen 1:50Pa. unemployment offices have doubled staff, but thousands still waiting on claims
Tens of thousands of Pa. workers are still trying to receive unemployment compensation as those processing claims work seven days a week.
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Listen 5:58Elcon scraps plan for controversial wastewater plant in lower Bucks County
For years, community members have resisted Elcon Recycling Services’ bid to treat hazardous wastewater so close to rivers and waterways.
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Casinos in Pa. and N.J. have finally banned smoking. Why now?
Do the new prohibitions reflect a greater coronavirus danger from smokers? The jury is still out, but there are real safety reasons behind the new rules.
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Citing ‘overwhelming’ spread, Pa. moves to add staff, app to trace the coronavirus
The state health department has received approval to spend nearly $27 million to ramp up contact tracing efforts.
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Former Pa. Supreme Court judge says chief justice accused her of having ‘minority agenda’
Cynthia Baldwin, the second Black woman to serve on the Pa. Supreme Court, says Chief Justice Thomas Saylor treated her unfairly in disciplinary proceedings.
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Pa. coronavirus recovery: Delco tracking virus surge in under 30 crowd
Contact tracing has shown a large portion of residents have contracted the virus while visiting N.J. beaches, attending Fourth of July barbecues, and socializing without masks
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