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Pennsylvania

David Reddecliff, clerk of the state House of Representatives, stands in the room in Pennsylvania's Capitol once known as the
Politics & Policy

Vestige of the past, Pa. House’s ‘lobbyist room’ vanishes

It happened without any warning: The "lobbyist room" at the back of Pennsylvania's House of Representatives chamber was closed and is now off limits to lobbyists.

7 years ago

In March 1979, Middletown Borough was home to approximately 11,000 residents. It was estimated at that time that 20 percent of the population packed up and temporarily left the area due to the uncertainty of what might transpire at Three Mile Island (Courtesy of the Historical Society of Dauphin County)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

40 years later, the prospect of a Three Mile Island-related evacuation remains daunting

The last several decades have brought more detailed plans and better technology, but the people responsible for TMI disaster prep say there will always be unknowns.

7 years ago

The African American Museum of Bucks County's exhibit “Building on the Dream: From Africa to Bucks County” is on display at the Pearl S. Buck House through July (Courtesy Sharon Lentz/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Arts & Entertainment
The Philadelphia Tribune

Bucks County group envisions African-American museum

The African American Museum of Bucks County wants to develop a permanent museum that tells the stories of blacks in Bucks County.

7 years ago

Rep. Thomas Mehaffie (R- Dauphin) unveils a bill aimed a preventing the early closure of two of Pennsylvania's five nuclear power plants. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Money
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Poll: Public split on whether state should act to prop up nuclear industry

A new poll found Pennsylvania voters generally support nuclear energy, but on the question of whether the state should prop up struggling plants, that support is mixed.

7 years ago

In this Jan. 9, 2018 photo, Movita Johnson-Harrell, Interim Supervisor of Victim Services, looks on after getting introduced, during a press conference at the District Attorney's Office in Philadelphia. Johnson-Harrell, the first female Muslim member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, said Tuesday, March 26, 2019, she was offended by a colleague's decision to open a voting session with a prayer a day earlier that
Politics & Policy
The Philadelphia Tribune

State Rep. Boyle calls for prayers in Pa. Legislature to respect all religions

“What we saw earlier this week was a fire and brimstone Evangelical prayer that epitomizes religious intolerance,” said state Rep. Kevin Boyle (D-Philadelphia).

7 years ago

This Eastern redbud tree outside WHYY studios will bloom in a few weeks, and that thought delights Sally McCabe, associate director of community education at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Exulting in Philly’s great treasure of blossoming trees

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society educator, Sally McCabe talks the timeline of trees as they get ready to burst into blossom.

7 years ago

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Protesters gather for a vigil outside the north gate of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County. (Tim Lambert/WITF)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Civil disobedience at Three Mile Island vigil

'Sometimes you have to teach the younger generation that they have to come out and cross a line to make a point.'

7 years ago

Aerial view of Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pa., scene of a nuclear accident, Thursday, March 28, 1979. The plant started leaking radioactive steam contaminating the area. (AP Photo)
Radio Times
Community

Listeners share memories of the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown

On the 40th anniversary of the partial nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania residents remember where they were and how they felt that day.

7 years ago

Audrey Glickman, a congregant from the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and a survivor of last October's mass shooting. She will will play the shofar in the Philadelphia Orchestra's premiere of Healing Tones. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Tree of Life Synagogue joins Philly Orchestra for ‘Healing Tones’

The premiere of “Healing Tones,” by composer Hannibal Lokumbe, will feature a member of the Pittsburgh synagogue where a mass shooting happened last year playing a shofar.

7 years ago

Listen 4:05
Heidi Wyandt, 27, holds a handful of her medication bottles at the Altoona Center for Clinical Research in Altoona, Pa., on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, where she is helping test an experimental non-opioid pain medication for chronic back pain related to a work related injury she received in 2014. (Chris Post/AP Photo)
Health

Housing grants go to people in recovery from opioid abuse

A $15 million grant program aims to help people living with opioid use disorder pay rent, utilities and other housing costs.

7 years ago

Portrait of a quarter horse. (Courtesy/Bigstock)
Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Equine therapy for kids with disabilities

When my 16-year-old son who has autism and an intellectual disability was a young child, he was really scared of animals. Dogs simply tak ...

7 years ago

In this May 22, 2017 file photo shown is the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa.. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Radio Times
Science

Three Mile Island anniversary and the future of nuclear power

On the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, we look back at the disaster and discuss the effect it had on the nuclear power industry then and now.

Air Date: March 28, 2019 10:00 am

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Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Pa. House panel hosts climate change doubter, draws rebuke from scientists

Geologist Gregory Wrightstone was tapped to testify by state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a conservative House member and chair of the Environmental Resources panel.

7 years ago

Last summer, weeds engulf a playground at housing section of the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster in Warminster, Pa. In Warminster and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. EPA testing between 2013 and 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Wolf’s $8M to remove PFAS from Bucks water won’t solve the problem, activists say

Pennsylvania will pay to help remove unregulated toxic contaminants from 17 wells in the Bucks County communities of Warminster, Ivyland, Warwick and Warrington.

7 years ago

In this Oct. 4, 2017, photo, a device called a
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. gun owner among many nationwide fighting to overturn Trump-led ban on bump stocks

Federal officials are asking gun owners to immediately destroy or turn over bump stocks after a nationwide ban took effect this week.

7 years ago

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