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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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This photo taken on July 11, 2012, shows the Marcus Hook Refinery in Marcus Hook, Pa. The facility, which is owned and operated by Sunoco Logistics, is an international hub for natural gas liquids, propane, ethane, and butane from the Marcellus Shale region of Western Pennsylvania. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

In Pa., two disparate visions for natural gas

The state House Speaker and other Republican lawmakers announced a slate of bills Monday that are aimed at bolstering Pennsylvania's natural gas industry.

7 years ago

US Steel's Clairton Coke Works. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Groups sue U.S. Steel, allege potentially ‘thousands’ of Clean Air Act violations

Pollution controls were off-line for over three months following a Christmas Eve fire.

7 years ago

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the Unites States from the Paris climate change accord. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. commits to Paris Agreement climate goals; state’s plan calls for 80% carbon cuts by 2050

Pennsylvania has become the 24th state to join the U.S. Climate Alliance.

7 years ago

In this file photo, Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, on May 2, 2018 after sinkholes opened in the area. That caused one of the ME2 project's many delays. (Marie Cusick/WITF)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sunoco buys two homes at Chester County site of Mariner East 2-related sinkhole

State and county documents show the company paid $400,000 each for the properties in Chester County.

7 years ago

Swarthmore College students gather at the Phi Psi fraternity house during a sit-in, Monday, April 29, 2019, in Swarthmore, Pa. (AP Photo)
Community

Student protesters occupy Swarthmore fraternity house, want it closed

Students at Swarthmore College occupied a fraternity house after alleged documents describing some members' derogatory comments and sexual assault jokes were leaked.

7 years ago

Students walk on the campus of Cheyney University
Education

Pennsylvania colleges face steep enrollment declines in 2026

Enrollment has been falling at many Pennsylvania colleges and universities for nearly decade, since peak enrollment numbers in 2010.

7 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the International Association of Firefighters at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Politics & Policy

Biden heads to Pennsylvania to pitch rebuilding middle class

By picking Pennsylvania for his first campaign speech of the presidential race, Joe Biden is signaling he hopes to own what may be the 2020 election's toughest battleground.

7 years ago

A group gathers outside the Tree of Life Synagogue for a vigil to honor the victims of the Saturday attack on synagogue in California Saturday April 27, 2019 in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It is six months to the day that a gunman shot and killed 11 people while they worshipped at the Tree of Life Synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Community

Pittsburgh synagogue: Violence ‘must end. Enough is enough!’

The Pittsburgh synagogue that six months ago was the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history held a vigil and offered its sympathy after another deadly shooting

7 years ago

Newsmen and spectators stand in front of the main gate of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Middletown, Penn., April 2, 1979. (Jack Kanthal/The Associated Press)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Legacy of Three Mile Island accident, political power of gas industry makes nuclear subsidies an uphill battle in Pennsylvania

The nuclear industry argues the design of the power market is flawed.

7 years ago

When legislative districts are drawn, inmates are counted as residents of the community where they are housed, despite the fact that they cannot vote or participate meaningfully in civic life. (AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Study finds Pa. prisons give home districts power, take it from poor urban areas

If Pennsylvania counted inmates as part of their home counties, not where they’re jailed, four state House districts would legally be too large and four would be too small.

7 years ago

Panelists discussed potential solutions to the rural broadband crisis as a part of the Influencers Project hosted by the Centre Daily Times at the State Theatre on April 24, 2019. (Min Xian/WPSU)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pa. panel discusses broadband internet solutions, urges public-private collaboration

Private providers said expanding broadband to rural areas is too costly, but there’s potential in exploring technological alternatives in delivering internet access.

7 years ago

A Mariner East pipeline construction clearing in Delaware County. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Suburban Philadelphia state senators seek answers from DEP chief over Mariner East pipeline

The lawmakers say Patrick McDonnell's re-appointment should be delayed until pipeline investigations are complete.

7 years ago

(Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Community
Billy Penn

Online voter registration spikes in Pa., outpaces paper by 50 percent

Signups more than doubled last year, thanks to the internet.

7 years ago

File phtoto: Harrisburg's Market Street Bridge is one of the roughly 3,000 classified as in need of repairs. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. fuel tax meant for bridge repair went to state police instead

From 2011 to 2017, $4.2 billion that could have gone toward repairing hundreds of structurally deficient bridges around the state has gone to fund State Police operations.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania National Guard Soldiers load bottled water onto a CH-47 Chinook helicopter September 1 at Fort Indiantown Gap in preparation to depart for the Hurricane Harvey relief effort in Texas. (U.S. National Guard photo by Sgt. Zane Craig)
Health

Area police departments, National Guard join forces to collect prescription meds

It's the fifth year the guard's Counterdrug Joint Task Force is working with police to collect the drugs from more than 800 drop-off centers around the state.

7 years ago

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