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Pennsylvania

Paul Robeson High School juniors and seniors learn how to use a voting machine. Eligible students were offered a chance to register to vote during their Voter Registration Day event. (Darryl Murphy/WHYY)
Money

After veto, Wolf and Republicans appear split on voting machine money

A measure that county commissioners were counting on to fund voting machine upgrades recently met its end under Governor Tom Wolf's veto pen.

6 years ago

This is the fourth year Pennsylvania has given some of its colleges and universities money to help educate about and fight against sexual assault on campus. (Andy Matsko/The Republican-Herald via AP)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania orders stronger sex assault campus reporting

Pennsylvania's colleges and universities have a year to develop online, anonymous reporting systems to receive complaints about sexual assault from students and employees.

6 years ago

Pa. Sen. Katie Muth reading a letter from a homeless man on the Senate floor in Harrisburg. (Youtube/CBS Pittsburgh)
The Why
Politics & Policy

The Pa. Senate’s viral shouting match and the state of state politics

A dispute over a bill and a violation of rules in the Pa. Senate recently devolved into a brouhaha that went viral. What does it say about the state of state politics?

Air Date: July 9, 2019

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A man rests his head on his arms in a heroin encampment in a vacant lot on Kensington Avenue on May 4, 2018. The encampment was later cleared out by the city. Pennsylvania will receive $10 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies to combat opioid addiction. The state was picked for its diverse cultural geography which could offer models for both rural and urban regions hit hard by high numbers of overdose deaths. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Money

Bloomberg Philanthropies gives Pennsylvania $10 million to reduce overdose deaths

The state, where 5,400 people fatally overdosed in 2017, was chosen in hopes it could offer models for both hard-hit rural and urban regions.

6 years ago

Nondumiso Tembe as Cleopatra and Neal Bledsoe as Marc Antony in rehearsal for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s production of 'Antony and Cleopatra' opening for previews Wednesday. (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

On power, privacy, and gender politics: ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” runs July 10 through Aug. 4 as part of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.

6 years ago

Visitors gather on one of the cantilevered terraces at Fallingwater, a Frank Lloyd Wright design in Pennsylvania. Eight Wright buildings, including Fallingwater, were honored as World Heritage sites by UNESCO, on July 7, 2019. (Keith Srakocic/AP)
NPR
Community

UNESCO adds 8 Frank Lloyd Wright buildings to World Heritage List

The new additions to the list were announced in Baku, Azerbaijan at UNESCO's annual conference.

6 years ago

Erick Jusino, of Philadelphia leads a chant on the bullhorn at the Philadelphia Union home game against FC Dallas at Talen Energy Stadium, in Chester, Pennsylvania, on April 6, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community

Ten years later, is Chester better now with a soccer stadium?

In the decade since the Major League Soccer team first played there, how has this city and the community been affected?

6 years ago

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The entrance to Erie Coke. (Amanda Gillooly/Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP))
Courts & Law

Erie coke plant to keep operating pending ruling on appeal

A company attorney said the failure to grant relief would impose "a corporate 'death penalty'" on the company by destroying its primary asset — two batteries of coke ovens.

6 years ago

Leatra Harper started the FreshWater Accountability Project because, she said, she wanted to protect Ohio waters from the effects of natural gas development. (Julie Grant / The Allegheny Front)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Fracking in Ohio: Citizens stepped in to protect water when the state did not

Ten years ago, the fracking industry was already booming in Pa., but people in Ohio were just starting to hear about it.

6 years ago

A technician works to prepare voting machines  in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Politics & Policy

Wolf vetoes voting machine funding bill, leaves counties in limbo

Many of the voting machines in Pennsylvania only record ballots electronically, which makes it almost impossible to double-check election results.

6 years ago

Hemlock flowers (Bigstock/ChWeiss)
Science

Poison hemlock, a toxic, invasive plant, is popping up more and more in Pennsylvania

According to an April article published by Penn State researcher Jeffrey Graybill, the plant has been aggressively spreading across the state.

6 years ago

Kids vie for candy that’s thrown by parade marchers at the annual Marple Newtown Fourth of July Parade. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Community

Delco shows its love for America with a parade that includes a ‘quiet zone’

As the parade passes by no loud sirens will blare and no loud jolting noises will sound, making the parade accessible to people who are sensitive to loud sounds.

6 years ago

Alyssa Collins, director of the Penn State Southeast Agricultural Research and Extension Center, holds hemp seeds grown as part of a research crop. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
Science

Researchers rush to answer questions about newly-legal hemp crops in Pa.

Pennsylvania approved more than 300 permits to farm industrial hemp this growing season after Congress loosened restrictions on the crop last year.

6 years ago

In this file photo, Tamaqua Area School Board member Nicholas Boyle speaks in support of arming teachers and other school employees, to members of the media after a news conference in Tamaqua, Pa., Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Education

Gov. Tom Wolf says new law ensures teachers can’t carry guns in schools

Some supporters of increased gun restrictions urged him to veto Senate Bill 621.

6 years ago

Close up photo of a mosquito on a leaf
Science

After a wet spring, Pa. DEP monitors for West Nile virus. Will this summer be bad?

Last year was one of the worst on record for West Nile in Pennsylvania. The number of cases jumped to 130, from 20 in 2017, and eight people died.

6 years ago

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