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CCTV Security monitoring student in a classroom at a school.(Bigstock/Memoryman)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Exclusive: How these Pa. schools fortified themselves after Parkland

Through a Right-to-Know request, Keystone Crossroads obtained summaries of what schools across the state plan to purchase with an unprecedented level of state grant funding.

6 years ago

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Earl has been struggling with heroin addiction for 17 years while living most of that time on the street in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood. He recently moved into an apartment through Pathways to Housing. (Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Politics & Policy

Wolf administration eyes stimulant use, adds resources for families affected by opioid deaths

The Wolf administration is adding resources to fight opioid addiction and prevent overdoses, while pointing to the rising problem of non-opioid drugs such as stimulants.

6 years ago

Vice President Mike Pence got a tour of a crane manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania on Thursday morning. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Mike Pence swings by Franklin County crane facility to push NAFTA replacement

A crane company had a chance to show off its southcentral Pennsylvania operation to a high-profile guest Thursday morning: Vice President Mike Pence.

6 years ago

A person exits Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Thousands of people were laid off in Pennsylvania in the first half of 2019

Two major closing announcements in Philadelphia in June will cost more than 3,000 people their jobs.

6 years ago

Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Cash assistance program for the poor in Pa. ends today

Despite a legal aid group asking the commonwealth court to grant an injunction, a small cash assistance for the poor has ended, effective Thursday.

6 years ago

This May 21, 2018 image shows the main page of the healthcare.gov website. (HealthCare.gov via AP)
Politics & Policy

‘Modest’ ACA health insurance rate increases expected for 2020

The 2020 numbers show an average statewide requested increase of 4.9%. Requested rate increases for those in small group market plans is 9.6%. 

6 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf speaks at a campaign rally for Pennsylvania candidates in Philadelphia, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Wolf issues executive order aimed at improving Pa.’s ‘outdated’ human services

After a series of incidents in which people have been harmed while in state or county human services care, Gov. Tom Wolf said the system isn’t working.

6 years ago

A hearing in Clairton, Pa. to discuss a settlement for air pollution violations at US Steel's Clairton Coke Works. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Western Pa. residents, workers air their responses to U.S. Steel settlement

In June, the county health department announced the draft agreement to resolve multiple air pollution violations at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Plant over the past two years.

6 years ago

In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 photo, Acting supervisor Lisa Reeder, left, and supervisor Kevin Keylor of PennDOT Driver's License/Real ID Center run a system test on computers in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. (Lake Fong/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania to allow gender-neutral driver’s license option

Pennsylvanians who prefer not to be identified as neither male nor female will soon have a gender-neutral option for their state-issued driver's licenses.

6 years ago

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane departs from the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville, Pa., on Wednesday, July 31, 2019.  Kane was sentenced in 2016 to 10-to-23 months for perjury, obstruction and other counts. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Kathleen Kane, once Pennsylvania attorney general, released from jail

Kathleen Kane left the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in the Philadelphia suburbs about 8:20 a.m. When asked by a reporter how she felt, Kane replied "grateful."

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Turnpike
Money
PA Post

V-tolls: What they are and why you might be paying them if you travel the Pa. Turnpike

Mysterious charges appeared on E-ZPass statements of Pennsylvania Turnpike customers at least 350,000 times over the course of a year.

6 years ago

In this Monday, July 15, 2019, file photo, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, (second from left), speaks, as U.S. Reps., (from left), Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.,Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listen, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

GOP in Pa. swing county posts, then deletes, ‘Jihad Squad’ image

The mock movie poster, which was photoshopped to show one of the lawmakers holding a handgun, remained on the Northampton County GOP’s Facebook page for about 12 days.

6 years ago

The Andover estate in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, along the route of the Mariner East 2 pipeline which began operating on Dec. 29. A valve site for the pipeline is in the center of the picture. (Courtesy of Eric Friedman)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East opponent heads to appeals court to obtain PUC risk assessment

A Delaware County pipeline foe thought he’d get PUC information on the Mariner East risk, but now he’ll have to fight for it in court.

6 years ago

A customer holds up a SEPTA Key card.
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

SEPTA Regional Rail paper Trailpasses will disappear starting in August

SEPTA is phasing out its paper monthly and weekly Trailpasses. All passes will be sold as Key card purchases starting in August. Click for details.

6 years ago

Fifth-graders Thomas Medley, (left), and Devin Walker study their training materials as they learn to become student leaders at Woodland Hills Intermediate in 2017. (The University of Pittsburgh)
Education

This Pa. school suspended fewer students by using a restorative model

School staff were trained to think of discipline differently. They were asked to find out why students are disruptive rather than remove them from school.

6 years ago

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