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Krevskyi Bohdan, from Lutsk, Ukraine, is a refugee living in Bucks County. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Why
Courts & Law

The changing face of refugees in Pa. as Trump cuts arrivals

The face of refugees coming to the U.S. is changing. The places they're going is changing, too. Why is that happening and what does it look like in Pennsylvania?

Air Date: October 16, 2019

Listen 13:15
Berks County Residential Center. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

British family detained in Pa. by ICE: ‘We will be traumatized for the rest of our lives’

The family says the Berks County-run facility is not equipped to care for a baby. Facilities are cold and normal caretaking items have been confiscated.

6 years ago

Listen 1:01
The Pennsylvania State Capitol is seen in this file photo. (Tom Downing/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Pa. lawmakers may let officials in small municipalities have higher salaries

If the bills pass, it will be the first time the legislature has raised municipal salary caps since 1995.

6 years ago

A conventional drilling site is prepared in Butler County, Pennsylvania in the winter of 2014. (Courtesy of Pennsylvania DEP)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP, CNX reach $1.48 M settlement on abandoned wells in Pa.

The order covers 141 conventional wells and five shale gas wells in Allegheny, Washington, Greene and Westmoreland counties.

7 years ago

Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer announces the name of the new ship, flanked by Pennsylvania and Harrisburg officials. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

The Navy is naming a boat after Pennsylvania’s capital

The USS Harrisburg will eventually be tasked with amphibious warfare and humanitarian relief missions.

7 years ago

File photo: Supporters of Marsy's Law held signs in protest during the ACLU's press conference announcing its lawsuit. (Katie Meyer/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

ACLU files last-minute suit arguing Pa.’s Marsy’s Law amendment is unconstitutional

Marsy’s Law would insert a bill of rights for crime victims in Pennsylvania’s constitution. The ACLU thinks it’s too sweeping and would need to be broken into parts.

7 years ago

Birds in the Delaware River watershed, like this great horned owl, are losing ground because of climate change impacts on habitat and food supply. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Changing climate means Pa. and N.J. state birds could disappear from the region

A new report from the National Audubon Society says Pa.'s ruffed grouse and N.J.'s American goldfinch could disappear.

7 years ago

FILE PHOTO: In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 file photo, an inmate and artist named Ezra poses for a portrait at the State Correctional Institution in Chester, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

One of Pa.’s prison units is about to go Scandinavian

The change, which will involve new furniture and roomier cells, will test whether a less punitive prison environment will yield better-behaved inmates.

7 years ago

Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, July 10, 2017. (Matt Rourke/ AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

A bill expanding healthcare access for working disabled people may see Pa. Senate action

The measure has high-ranking co-sponsors from both parties, making it a rare healthcare bill that may not divide the chamber on party lines.

7 years ago

William Marx points out one of the districts that crossed four counties as an image of the old congressional districts of Pennsylvania are projected on a wall in the classroom where he teaches civics in Pittsburgh on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. Marx was a plaintiff in the Pennsylvania lawsuit that successfully challenged the Republican-drawn congressional maps. Marx said he believes the new district boundaries resulted in
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Survey: Most Pa. voters support independent redistricting commission

Redistricting reform is a top goal for many good government supporters in Pennsylvania.

7 years ago

John Quinn, 67, attended St. Francis Vocational School for a couple of months in the 1960s, along with other Catholic orphanages including St. John's, St. Joseph's, St. Michael's and St. Mary's. Quinn says it was during that time that he was molested by priests and counselors. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

As Pa. compensation programs end, church victims wrestle with the price put on abuse

Some victims have used the program to put their fight with the church behind them. Others scoffed at the pricetag put on their trauma.

7 years ago

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With 95,802 students enrolled, the State System of Higher Education now has about the same enrollment as it had 20 years ago, according to the official fall semester student count released on Tuesday. At Shippensburg University (shown here), enrollment declined by 312 students this year, for a total of nearly 6,100. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive)
Education
PA Post

State universities’ enrollment shows decline for the ninth consecutive year; Cheyney on the rise

Enrollment at Pennsylvania’s state universities once again took a downward tumble for the ninth consecutive year, dropping by 2.6% from last year.

7 years ago

ACLU Legal Director Vic Walczak with plaintiffs Melissa Gass and Ashley Bennett. (Katie Meyer / WITF)
Courts & Law

ACLU says Pa. county medical marijuana policy violates state law

The group’s Pennsylvania chapter is suing the county in hopes it will allow people on probation to use medical cannabis.

7 years ago

Grain farmer Jesse Poliskiewicz breaks open a pod of soybeans while on his farm Sept. 20, 2019, in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Amid Trump’s trade war, Pa. farmers fight to survive in an uncertain market

In the midst of the second harvest under the trade war, Pa. farmers discuss how the policy affects them and what it takes to survive in an unstable and uncertain market.

7 years ago

Listen 5:06
People gather at the Supreme Court awaiting a decision in an Illinois union dues case, Janus vs. AFSCME, in Washington, Monday, June 25, 2018. The outcome of that case and several others were not announced Monday as the court's term comes to a close. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Dispute arises over who gets credit for union escape clause in Pa. government labor contracts

The inclusion of the so-called “maintenance of membership” clause in the former contracts is the subject of pending lawsuits.

7 years ago

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