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Pennsylvania

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

Listen 4:56
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

Alison Cobb asks a question at a PA Department of Health forum on the state's Washington County cancer study. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Washington County family members tell state to ‘fix’ their cancer study

The families of several people diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in one Pa. county told state health officials to update their data at a public meeting Monday night.

7 years ago

Capitol building
Politics & Policy

Here’s how Pa. Republicans are involved in efforts to censure Schiff

Five of the nine have confirmed they support the effort, and are involved in some capacity.

7 years ago

Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., won her House seat by a razor-thin margin in 2018. Her support for an impeachment inquiry risks alienating voters in a closely divided swing district.(Jacqueline Larma/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

In one Pennsylvania swing district, it’s not all impeachment all the time

Impeachment may be taking up most of the oxygen on Capitol Hill these days, but that's not necessarily the case in swing districts like Wild's.

7 years ago

The Bruce Mansfield Power Plant burns coal to generate electricity in Beaver County. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Gov. Wolf plans to have Pennsylvania join a regional effort to cut carbon emissions

Wolf bypassed the Pennsylvania legislature with an executive order that starts the process to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

7 years ago

Once again, only people who believe in a higher power can give opening invocations in the state House. (Jan Murphy/PennLive)
Politics & Policy

Once again, Pa. House will bar nonbelievers from giving invocations

A battle over religion in the state House appears to be over, and the theists have won.

7 years ago

FILE: A herd of Holstein cows on dairy farm in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bowe)
Community

U.S. Agriculture Secretary says small farms are in trouble. But Pa. advocates have hope.

The U.S. Agriculture Secretary caused some indignation on a recent visit to Wisconsin after saying small dairy farms may not survive a changing market.

7 years ago

In this file photo, Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine speaks to members of the media, April 15, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Health

Pa. reports first death from vaping-related illness

The Pennsylvania Health Department says one person in the state has died from lung injuries associated with vaping.

7 years ago

Auditor General Eugene DePasquale discussing one of the many audits he has conducted over the past several years. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy

Former Pa. congressional contender Christina Hartman to run for auditor general

She’s vying to replace outgoing auditor Eugene DePasquale, and will likely be part of a crowded field.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks to reporters during a news conference on his signing an executive order for his administration to start working on regulations to bring Pennsylvania into a nine-state consortium that sets a price and limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019 in Harrisburg, Pa. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. Gov. Wolf moves to join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf took a step toward capping greenhouse gas emissions from power plants Thursday, part of an effort to fight climate change.

7 years ago

Carolyn Fortney, a survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of her family's Roman Catholic parish priest as a child, awaits legislation in the Pennsylvania Capitol to respond to a landmark state grand jury report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 in Harrisburg, Pa. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. laws keep victims silent, child sex abuse survivors say

The Pa. senate held a daylong hearing on overhauling the statute of limitations for some abuse cases. They’ve stalled before, and it’s unclear if anything has changed.

7 years ago

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