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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Pennsylvania

The Bruce Mansfield Power Plant burns coal to generate electricity in Beaver County. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Gov. Wolf plans to have Pennsylvania join a regional effort to cut carbon emissions

Wolf bypassed the Pennsylvania legislature with an executive order that starts the process to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

6 years ago

Once again, only people who believe in a higher power can give opening invocations in the state House. (Jan Murphy/PennLive)
Politics & Policy

Once again, Pa. House will bar nonbelievers from giving invocations

A battle over religion in the state House appears to be over, and the theists have won.

6 years ago

FILE: A herd of Holstein cows on dairy farm in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bowe)
Community

U.S. Agriculture Secretary says small farms are in trouble. But Pa. advocates have hope.

The U.S. Agriculture Secretary caused some indignation on a recent visit to Wisconsin after saying small dairy farms may not survive a changing market.

6 years ago

In this file photo, Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine speaks to members of the media, April 15, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Health

Pa. reports first death from vaping-related illness

The Pennsylvania Health Department says one person in the state has died from lung injuries associated with vaping.

6 years ago

Auditor General Eugene DePasquale discussing one of the many audits he has conducted over the past several years. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy

Former Pa. congressional contender Christina Hartman to run for auditor general

She’s vying to replace outgoing auditor Eugene DePasquale, and will likely be part of a crowded field.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks to reporters during a news conference on his signing an executive order for his administration to start working on regulations to bring Pennsylvania into a nine-state consortium that sets a price and limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019 in Harrisburg, Pa. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. Gov. Wolf moves to join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf took a step toward capping greenhouse gas emissions from power plants Thursday, part of an effort to fight climate change.

6 years ago

Carolyn Fortney, a survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of her family's Roman Catholic parish priest as a child, awaits legislation in the Pennsylvania Capitol to respond to a landmark state grand jury report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 in Harrisburg, Pa. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. laws keep victims silent, child sex abuse survivors say

The Pa. senate held a daylong hearing on overhauling the statute of limitations for some abuse cases. They’ve stalled before, and it’s unclear if anything has changed.

6 years ago

Gisele Fetterman opens flowers at Hollander's in Braddock, Pa. Hollander's is a co-working space and business incubator for minority, female entrepreneurs from Braddock and surrounding Mon Valley communities on Sept. 19, 2019. (Sean Simmers/PennLive)
Community
PA Post

Pa. second lady Gisele Fetterman: From ‘invisible’ undocumented immigrant to loud, proud advocate

Every day, as she headed out the door for school, Gisele Barreto Fetterman’s mother would tell her that she loved her. Then she told her to be invisible.

6 years ago

Atiba Kwesi, 59, of Overbrook in West Philadelphia poses for a portrait outside of Fellowship Christian Church wearing a shirt reading
The Why
Politics & Policy

How ‘prison gerrymandering’ could impact your voting district

The census counts prisoners in the districts where they're in incarcerated, not in their home districts. Why that's led to shifts in political power in Pennsylvania.

Air Date: October 3, 2019

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Jennifer Lugar, whose husband died by suicide with a gun in 2009, listens as state Sen. Tom Killion, R-Delaware County, speaks during a panel discussion on Oct. 1, 2019. The discussion took place at the Chadds Ford Township Municipal Building. (Ed Mahon / PA Post)
Politics & Policy

‘Red flag’ gun bill author eyes changes to ease lawmakers’ concerns

A Republican lawmaker from the Philadelphia suburbs says he is considering changes to legislation that would give law enforcement the power to seize people’s guns.

6 years ago

George Watson's natural gas wells on his Center Township, Greene County land put him at the head of a global supply chain that stretches to Europe and other parts of the world. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Shale gas off-ramp: Pa.’s fracking boom helps fuel plastics production overseas

So much ethane is coming out of the ground in Pennsylvania, and other drilling hot spots around the country, that chemical plants in the U.S. can’t use it all.

6 years ago

This July 11, 2018 photo shows the Lehigh River at Lehigh Gorge State Park in Jim Thorpe, Pa. (Michael Rubinkam/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

New report says Pa. state parks funding hasn’t kept pace with inflation

A quarter-century ago, the price tag for repair projects was around $100 million dollars. Now it’s five times that.

6 years ago

House lawmakers celebrate passing a slate of bills that they say will give victims equal rights, including Marsy's Law. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Pa.’s upcoming election features a contentious ballot question: Marsy’s Law, or not?

The amendment would enshrine certain rights for crime victims in the commonwealth’s constitution.

6 years ago

A sign for Roundtop Mountain Resort is posted along the road in Lewsiberry, York County, Oct. 1, 2019. (Brett Sholtis/WITF)
Money

Five Pa. ski resorts sold amid Purdue Pharma bankruptcy

The Sackler family was a majority owner in Peak Resorts, which sold its 17 properties to Vail Resorts in a $264 million cash deal.

6 years ago

In this April 10, 2013 file photo, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. (left) and Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa. arrive for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to announce that they have reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
The Why
Politics & Policy

The fate of Sen. Toomey’s background checks bill

Pa. Sen. Pat Toomey is a rare Republican interested in some form of bipartisan gun control, but thinks are looking bleak for the bill he's tried, and tried, and tried to pass.

Air Date: October 2, 2019

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