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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Senate President Joe Scarnati led the state in lavish campaign spending, according to an investigation by The Caucus and Spotlight PA. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
The Why
Politics & Policy

A dog urine detector? How Pa. lawmakers spent millions in campaign cash

A country club membership, California wines, a dog urine detector — all paid for with campaign cash. Why are Pennsylvania candidates allowed to spend donors' money this way?

Air Date: November 4, 2019

Listen 14:17
Organizers, active in the suburban cycling community, discuss their grassroots projects during a panel at the Philly Bike Expo on Saturday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Lifestyle

At Philly Bike Expo, a look at how women led the biking movement in the suburbs

When the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia was organizing a suburban bike advocacy panel, it was made clear that most of the efforts were made by women.

6 years ago

From left, Marshall Everett, Ed Peters, and Sabrina Herb protest the cuts to campus mental health services at HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College, on Oct. 23, 2019. (Aneri Pattani/Spotlight PA)
Education
Spotlight PA

Students blast Pa.’s largest community college for cutting campus mental health services while spending big on renovations

'Where’s your money going?' one student asked of the college. 'Because there are people who don’t have insurance who really rely on these services for help.'

6 years ago

Pennsylvania’s ecosystem has already been permanently altered but scientist says effects can be managed if emissions are cut. (REDPIXEL.PL/BigStock)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

At western Pa. climate change summit, one scientist says effects can be managed if emissions are cut

Pennsylvania’s ecosystem has already been permanently altered due to climate change, but it’s not too late to act before these changes become unmanageable, experts say.

6 years ago

A view of a school building from afar on a cloudy day
Courts & Law

‘Harms to our children are widespread’: Philly nonprofit calls for state to overhaul juvenile justice system

Authors say the system is expensive, ineffective and harmful for Pennsylvania youth.

6 years ago

Philadelphia's Criminal Justice Center. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

High-stakes judicial seats decided with little information, dearth of voter engagement

Voters will decide local races for Municipal Court and Court of Common Pleas, as well as help fill two statewide spots on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

6 years ago

State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz delivers an invocation on March 25, 2019, in the state House. (Screenshot from video)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. House spends $1.1 million to win court battle to preserve opening prayer tradition

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives went to federal court to maintain an opening prayer that invokes a higher power and it came at a high cost to taxpayers.

6 years ago

(pressmaster/BigStock)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. quietly reverses ‘lunch shaming’ ban as school district debt grows

Language within this year’s school code bill allows districts to withhold hot meals from students who accrue more than $50 in lunch debt.

6 years ago

Listen 3:24
An excavator removes concrete pipe as part of a plan to restore a waterway at Conklin Recreation Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Urban Planning

Bringing Jenkintown Creek back to nature, to improve water quality downstream

A section of the creek will be moved out of a concrete pipe to clean it and slow it down, reducing flooding and improving water quality downstream.

6 years ago

Listen 1:56
Delaware County District Attorney Katayoun Copeland (center) announces charges against 22 people, all alleged members of two Chester drug gangs. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
Courts & Law

After morning raids, feds say they’ve busted up two Chester drug gangs

Law enforcement officials announced charges against 22 defendants, all of whom, they say, belong to a pair of Chester-based drug gangs.

6 years ago

A pension debt clock that sits in the state Capitol's east wing rotunda. Together, Pennsylvania's two public pension systems have roughly $70 billion in unfunded liabilities. (PennLive)
Politics & Policy

House members launch a plan they say will make Pa.’s pensions more transparent

The bills are in their early days, but they’ve already gotten early rebukes from staff for one of two pension systems.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania counties must have voting machines featuring voter-verifiable, individually audit-able paper ballots in place no later than the presidential primary April 28, 2020, as per the settlement to a lawsuit over the state's election system filed after the 2016 election.

 Map by Tom Downing/WITF, database by Emily Previti/PA Post
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Voting reform bill heads to governor’s desk; critics say the state’s ramming through changes

Counties would get back 60 percent of election system upgrade costs under SB421.

6 years ago

Supporters of Marsy's Law held signs in protest during the ACLU's press conference announcing its lawsuit. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
The Why
Politics & Policy

Pa. could vote on Marsy’s Law: Here’s what’s at stake

Would a Marsy’s Law amendment on victims’ rights infringe on bedrock rights of the accused? The last-minute legal fight over a question on the Pa. ballot.

Air Date: October 30, 2019

Listen 15:21
Shown is a paper ballot during a demonstration of the ExpressVote XL voting machine at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Thursday, June 13, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. lawmakers, county officials raise concerns about implementing election reforms

State lawmakers are on track to send a voting reform bill to Gov. Tom Wolf after negotiations over election security funding provisions went late Monday.

6 years ago

Berks County Residential Center, July 19, 2019. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Gov. Wolf and a Berks County official are plotting ways to close an immigrant detention center

The controversial Berks Family Residential Center is one of three facilities in the US that detains undocumented parents and children together.

6 years ago

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