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Pennsylvania

A logo sign on a Hyperloop test track outside of the headquarters of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., also known as SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, on December 10, 2017. (Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA via AP Images)
Keystone Crossroads
Urban Planning

‘Hyperloop’ cargo from Philly to Pittsburgh? Officials say it’s not that far-fetched

State transportation officials are beginning to plan for a future that includes hyperloop trips at near supersonic speeds. Experts say the concept may never become a reality.

6 years ago

Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., speaks with the media after a closed-door briefing for the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Senate backs Trump’s Philly-based appeals court nominee over home-state objections

The Senate voted 54-45 to approve Paul Matey to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, giving the court a majority of Republican appointees.

6 years ago

Computer mouse pads with Secure the Vote logo on them are seen on a vendor's table at a convention of state secretaries of state Saturday, July 14, 2018, in Philadelphia. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. 2019 municipal primary: Key dates and what you need to know

This year, voters in Pennsylvania will elect judges, county commissioners, district attorneys, mayors, school board members and other local leaders.

6 years ago

Kyle Fogarty shows the program for the funeral for Antwon Rose Jr. on Monday, June 25, 2018, in Swissvale, Pa. Rose was fatally shot by a police officer seconds after he fled a traffic stop June 19, in the suburb of East Pittsburgh. Fogarty said he was a classmate of Rose and had to attend the service. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Jury selection begins for Pa. trial in death of Antwon Rose, 17

Jurors will be taken to Allegheny County for the trial of Michael Rosfeld, a former Pittsburgh police officer charged with criminal homicide for the death of Antwon Rose II.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa.
Education

Pa. House brings back bills reorganizing career and technical education

Support for career and technical education happens to be one of the only work-related areas where Pennsylvania Republicans and Democrats agree.

6 years ago

A joint session of the state House and Senate during the governor's budget address. All together, there are 253 members of Pennsylvania's legislature--203 in the House, 50 in the Senate. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Shrinking the Pa. legislature? It’s possible, but unlikely.

In order to change the size of the House or Senate, the chambers would have to sign off on a constitutional amendment.

6 years ago

A portrait of Dr. Philip Jaisohn, the first Korean-American to receive a U.S. medical degree, hangs above the mantle at his home in Media, Pa.  The home is now a museum chronicling Jaisohn's life and his involvement in the Korean indepencence movement. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Jaisohn Memorial House in Media celebrates Korean revolutionary

Throughout his life, here and in his native country, Philip Jaisohn was a champion of Korean independence and social equality.

6 years ago

Listen 1:34
The Clinton County volleyball team from Mill Hall and Lockhaven, Pennsylvania, is representing the U.S.A. at the Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi. (Marco Catini Photography/Special Olympics USA)
Community

Central Pa. volleyball team off to Abu Dhabi for Special Olympics World Games debut

The team has been Pennsylvania champion in its skill level for eight straight years, but this is its first chance at the Special Olympics World Games.

6 years ago

Listen 3:35
Attendants watch the showcase of a live video conference during an open house event at the Northern Pennsylvanian Regional College in Warren, Pa. (Photo by Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Challenged by college cost and access, students in rural Pa. find tech-based alternative

Students in rural Pennsylvania face two big obstacles to college completion: cost and access. A new college is out to change that.

6 years ago

 In this Feb. 5, 2019 file photo, Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, File)
Politics & Policy

Pa. proposal aims to ease government efforts to reclaim records

A bill scheduled for a vote this week would give the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission the power to demand the return of records with historical value.

6 years ago

Dancers from the Emerald Isle Academy of Irish Dance prepare for the Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday in Springfield, Pa. (Emily Scott/WHYY, file)
Lifestyle

Irish dance school passes on heritage ‘for generations’ through St. Patrick’s Day Parade performance

Students have spent two months preparing for their biggest performance of the year: ceili dancing for tens of thousands and a live TV audience.

6 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Unsolicited, PUC commissioner sends legislators a breakdown of nuclear bailout options

A state utility regulator sent a 33-page memo analyzing policy options to legislators who are drafting a bill to rescue two of the state’s five plants.

6 years ago

The spotted lanternfly is spreading through Southeast Pennsylvania. It was spotted for the first time in the United States in Berks County. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture)
Science

Pa. looking for new ways to fight spotted lanternfly

Pennsylvania is looking for new ways to fight the invasive spotted lanternfly, nearly five years after it was first discovered in Berks County.

6 years ago

The Montgomery County Republican Committee hosted a candidate's forum at the Upper Merion Township Building in King of Prussia, Pa. on Thursday, February 28, 2019. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Montgomery County GOP candidates square off in party primary

Montgomery County Republicans will decide in the party primary whether to back county Commissioner Joe Gale, who beat party leaders four years ago.

6 years ago

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According to data provided by the DOC, from September 2018 through January 2019 staffers have been caught with drugs three times, visitors 34 times, and inmates 934 times. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Three Pa. prison staffers arrested on charges of smuggling drugs

The arrests follow tightened security to prevent smuggling — much of which officials have blamed on inmates and outside friends and family.

6 years ago

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