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Pennsylvania

The Beaver Valley Power Station in Shippingport, Pa. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Congressional hearing puts focus on struggling Pa. nuclear industry

A Congressional hearing near Pittsburgh Friday highlighted the plight of the nuclear industry, which has struggled to compete against cheap natural gas and renewables.

7 years ago

An oil and gas well in Forward Township, Allegheny County. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Natural gas driller EQT fined $330K for erosion violations in Allegheny County

Natural gas driller EQT was fined $330,000 by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for erosion violations at two natural gas sites in Allegheny County.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims filmed an encounter with a protester at a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood facility, then posted the video. As she studiously ignored him, Sims tells viewers the woman had been confronting the people who were walking into the clinic. (AP file photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. legislator films himself berating woman protesting abortion in Philly

Facebook users and the state GOP chairman are chastising Rep. Brian Sims for an 8-minute video he posted that shows him peppering the woman with questions and criticism.

7 years ago

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at a Second Amendment rally in the state Capitol on May 6, 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Fear of encroaching gun control draws hundreds to Harrisburg

Hundreds of people attended a Second Amendment rally in the Pennsylvania state Capitol.

7 years ago

Listen 4:49
In this Aug. 1, 2018 photo 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. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

PFAS chemicals have contaminated 17 sites in Pennsylvania, data show

Mapping of public data shows PFAS-contaminated sites exist across the country.

7 years ago

Hannah Kaptur, a student teacher at Rainbow Elementary in Coatesville, Pa., felt that voice training made it easer to use her voice all day. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

West Chester professor wants to be a voice (coach) for teachers

More than half of teachers say they’ve had some sort of voice disorder during their career. A West Chester professor is working to help them.

7 years ago

Listen 2:33
Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Pressure grows to loosen party grip on Pennsylvania primary

Pennsylvania: Land of Disenfranchisement? It's not the state slogan, but Pennsylvania is in the minority of states with closed primary elections.

7 years ago

Protestors chant during the United Methodist Church's special session of the general conference in St. Louis, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. America's second-largest Protestant denomination faces a likely fracture as delegates at the crucial meeting move to strengthen bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy.
(Sid Hastings/AP Photo)
Community
PA Post

Rocked by gay clergy issues, closures and mergers, the United Methodist Church is ‘in turmoil’

Across the country, some of the largest UMC communities teeter on dissolution amid a raging debate over the church’s ban of LGBT clergy.

7 years ago

Westmoreland County MH/ID administrator Dirk Matson, at right, recently traveled to the state capitol with people who receive mental health services through Pennsylvania's Medicaid Program, including John Herrmann of Greensburg, at left. Herrmann said he has bipolar disorder. (Brett Sholtis/Transforming Health)
Health

Pa. counties fight plan to nix Medicaid behavioral health model

The plan would eliminate the state's $4 billion behavioral health program, merging it with the state's $12 billion physical health Medicaid program.

7 years ago

Bertha Garnett, center, listens to speakers at an event honoring her son, Reuben Garnett Jr., who was killed in action in Vietnam. At left is her daughter, India Garnett, who worked for decades to have her brother's service honored. Bertha's great-granddaughters Courtney, Tianna and Sheniah can be seen in the background. (Brett Sholtis/WITF)
Community
PA Post

After 53-year fight, Pa. family of a black Vietnam veteran finally finds closure

On March 4, 1966, Reuben Garnett Jr. was killed by enemy fire while rushing to help his platoon leader.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf visits Fairhill, one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods, to push for a severance tax on natural gas, which he says could be used to fight urban blight. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Can a tax on natural gas drilling help fix Pa.’s infrastructure problem?

Wolf hopes to use a severance tax on natural gas drilling to fund broadband internet access, emergency infrastructure, and blight removal, among other things.

7 years ago

Ken Smukler outside the federal courthouse in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Courts & Law

Brady aide Ken Smukler gets 18 months in prison, $75K fine for election law crimes

A jury found that Smukler helped arrange and cover up a $90,000 payoff to one of then U.S. Rep. Bob Brady’s opponents in the 2012 congressional election.

7 years ago

Members of the group March on Harrisburg dressed in Where's Waldo costumes in 2017, after their second march to the Capitol. They were arrested shortly after this demonstration — a common outcome for the group. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

As March on Harrisburg approaches, lawmakers take stock of gift laws

Gift laws vary widely by state, but critics like March on Harrisburg deride Pennsylvania's as being one of the loosest in the country.

7 years ago

Special education teacher Ben Slater describes his Father's Day at Dorney Park, where he was detained by security guards who accused him of stealing, then banned from the park for six months.
Courts & Law

Dorney Park settles black patron’s racial profiling suit

The Allentown Morning Call reports Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom's parent company settled the suit for an undisclosed amount.

7 years ago

The state has approved $40 million in grants for school districts to improve safety. These competitive grants are in addition to $25,000 that most districts received last year.
(Min Xian/WPSU)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pennsylvania grants $40M in competitive school safety grants

The state has approved $40 million in grants for school districts to improve safety. These competitive grants are in addition to $25,000 that most districts received last year

7 years ago

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