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Pennsylvania

In this file photo, a driver enters the Pennsylvania Turnpike at a electronic interchange in Malvern. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
Money
PA Post

PennDOT: Turnpike could be headed for ‘catastrophic’ reckoning

The Turnpike Commission is behind on payments to the state amid a lawsuit over its rising tolls.

6 years ago

Pearce Bunting as a hypnotist in
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

From Theatre Exile: Is ‘An Oak Tree’ real or artificial?

Gimmickry overtakes a play bombarded by on-stage directions and a prescribed lack of rehearsal.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Corrections Department mail inspector Brian Strawser sorts inmate mail at Camp Hill state prison in Camp Hill, Pa.
The Why
Courts & Law

Handling priority mail: Pennsylvania’s prison mail controversy

The controversy has raised the question of what takes precedent: the safety and security of prisons or the protection of attorney-client privilege?

Air Date: February 27, 2019

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Pennsylvania Corrections Department mail inspector Brian Strawser sorts inmate mail at Camp Hill state prison in Camp Hill, Pa.
Courts & Law
PA Post

Corrections Dept. says it has no plans to give inmates original copies of their mail

At an annual budget hearing in Harrisburg, Corrections Secretary John Wetzel reaffirmed the policy is staying put.

6 years ago

Investigators remove bags from a crime scene at the Robert Morris Apartments in Morrisville, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. A Pennsylvania woman charged along with her teenage daughter in the deaths of multiple relatives, including children, was arraigned Tuesday on murder charges. The bodies were found Monday inside an apartment at the complex. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

DA: Murder-suicide pact a ‘potentiality’ in Bucks quintuple homicide

Police found a Pennsylvania woman and her teenage daughter in an apartment with the bodies of five relatives they had killed, including three children.

6 years ago

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

Creating a paper trail: Why Pennsylvania is shelling out for new voting machines

The state says there's no evidence its voting machines have ever been hacked. So why is Pa. forcing all 67 counties to buy new ones to the tune of $120 million?

Air Date: February 26, 2019

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A woman shouts while marching with service workers asking for $15 minimum wage pay during a rally at Newark Liberty International Airport, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in Newark, N.J. The event was part of the National Day of Action to Fight for $15. The campaign seeks higher hourly wages, including for workers at fast-food restaurants and airports. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Money

Pennsylvania GOP lawmaker opens door to minimum wage deal

In January, Wolf issued a new proposal to raise Pennsylvania's hourly minimum to $12 this year, making it one of the highest in the nation.

6 years ago

Energy Transfer, the parent company of Mariner East 2 pipeline builder, Sunoco, works at Snitz Creek in West Cornwall Township, Lebanon County after a drilling mud spill during the summer. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Energy Transfer CEO: ‘We’ve made mistakes’ in building Mariner East

Critics say promises won’t make the cross-state pipeline project any safer.

6 years ago

Many districts in southwestern Pennsylvania would receive money under a proposal to raise all school district salaries to at least $45,000 a year. (Ed Mahon / PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

A $45,000 minimum salary for teachers, explained

The issue is expected to come up during education department budget hearings.

6 years ago

Chris Wilmer, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, holds a model of a metal organic framework. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Could membranes at coal-fired power plants help stop climate change?

Pittsburgh researchers are working on potentially cheaper ways to capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants.

6 years ago

In this 2014 photo, people march in the annual Pride Day Parade in Philadelphia.
(Joseph Kaczmarek/AP Photo)
Courts & Law
PA Post

Is 2019 the year Pa. gives LGBTQ+ people discrimination protection?

Pennsylvania's Human Relations Act grants certain groups of people extra legal protection against discrimination. One group it misses? LGBTQ+ people.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

AG Shapiro investigating ‘environmental crimes’ in Pa.

The woman who sued natural gas driller Range Resources over alleged air and water contamination at her Mt. Pleasant, Pa. home, testified before an investigative grand jury.

6 years ago

A solitary corrections officer looks out from a tower at one corner of the state prison in Camp Hill. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
Courts & Law
PA Post

Pa. Corrections Department settling lawsuit over contentious legal mail policy

The DOC has confirmed it will stop photocopying inmates’ legal mail and go back to giving them original copies.

6 years ago

backhoe works at a construction site
Courts & Law

Delaware County asks to join ‘safety seven’ suit challenging Mariner East pipeline

Delaware County is the latest public entity seeking to join the ongoing lawsuit, which alleges unsafe conditions and a need for more emergency planning.

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

Officials in 18 Pa. counties accepted gifts from voting machine vendors, audit finds

Officials in 18 Pennsylvania counties accepted gifts, such as wine festival tickets, trips and dinners at high-end restaurants, from voting equipment vendors.

6 years ago

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