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Pennsylvania

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

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

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