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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb speaks at a rally in July 2018 (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Democratic legislators say fixing school funding is a moral imperative

The opportunity gaps in Pennsylvania between rich and poor, black and white, are among the highest in the nation.

7 years ago

Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman is planning a months-long listening tour to discuss recreational marijuana. (AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Lt. Gov. Fetterman plans to tour Pa. to talk about pot

Fetterman said his multi-month, statewide project won't necessarily result in concrete policy changes--though it might. And he said it's not about his own opinions.

7 years ago

Andrea Martinez (left) and Janelle Rosado are food stamp recipients. They live in Reading, Pa., where 44 percent of households receive SNAP benefits.  (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Food stamp crisis looming in Pa. because of government shutdown

The partial federal government shutdown is threatening food stamp benefits beyond February. Pennsylvania officials see a crisis coming in the next few weeks.

7 years ago

Alyssa Collins with Penn State Extension shows a hemp plant that grew after the main experiment was harvested. Under guidelines from the state Department of Agriculture, any plants that spring up outside the parameters of the research period would have to be destroyed. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
Money

Pa. plans to open industrial hemp program to commercial growers

Pennsylvania's Agriculture Department is opening up its hemp program, pending approval from the federal government.

7 years ago

The Horsham Air Guard Station in Bucks County, Pa. where the use of PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam has been linked with contamination of local water supplies. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. might set maximum limits on a toxic chemical in drinking water. Some ask: What’s there to decide?

Activists want a new panel to regulate the chemicals in the absence of federal standards.

7 years ago

Poet Charles Bernstein, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, has received the prestigious Bollingen Prize for his poetic achievement. (University of Pennsylvania)
Arts & Entertainment

University of Penn poet Charles Bernstein wins major literary prize

The award, which comes with a $165,000 purse, is given every two years from Yale University to an American poet for lifetime achievement on the event of a new publication.

7 years ago

The state aims to collect more information on department finances to help with the budgeting process. Its first subject was the Department of Corrections. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Money

Pa. lawmakers try out new way of assessing impact of state dollars

Pennsylvania's Independent Fiscal Office is now required to periodically create what are known as performance-based budget reports on state agencies.

7 years ago

The state Capitol building in Harrisburg. (Tom Downing/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

New education leaders in Pa. Legislature seek to reduce role of state tests, increase accountability for cyber charters

There’s new blood leading Pennsylvania’s House and Senate Education Committees. Both chairmen talked about the upcoming legislative session.

7 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney (right) smiles as former U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford (D-Pennsylvania) speaks at the Martin Luther King Day of Service opening ceremony at Girard College. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Former U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford of Pa. dies at 92

Harris Wofford, the former Pennsylvania U.S. senator and lifelong advocate for civil rights, social justice and expanded health care, has died at age 92.

7 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney (right) smiles as former U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford (D-Pennsylvania) speaks at the Martin Luther King Day of Service opening ceremony at Girard College. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Harris Wofford, activist who served in Senate, dies at 92

Former U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania, a civil rights activist who staged an upset Senate win in 1991, has died. He was 92.

7 years ago

Quakertown Community High School (Google Maps)
Community

After racist taunts, Quakertown students hold first MLK Day of service

Last year, Quakertown students taunted and threw rocks at students from the majority-black Cheltenham district. As a response, the district held its first MLK Day of Service.

7 years ago

Crews worked on Monday Jan. 21 to stabilize a new sinkhole that opened up at Lisa Drive, a suburban development in West Whiteland Township, Chester County where Sunoco operates its Mariner East pipelines. (Jon Hurdle / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East pipelines: New sinkhole opens at Chester County site; Sunoco shuts line

A new sinkhole appeared late Sunday at a Sunoco pipeline site in Chester Co. where several earlier sinkholes led officials to halt construction because of safety concerns.

7 years ago

Some Pennsylvanians who work for the federal government are turning to food banks for support. (Michael Rubinkam/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Central Pa. Food Bank feeding hundreds of furloughed federal workers

Hundreds of furloughed federal workers are turning to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank to help make ends meet as the partial federal government shutdown drags on.

7 years ago

U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh-area legislators want hearing on Clairton Coke Works

Officials want answers on Allegheny County’s response to pollution at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works after a Christmas Eve fire damaged air pollution controls at the plant.

7 years ago

In this Sept. 23, 2011 file photo, Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Pa., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Politics & Policy

Congressman who worked on Trump’s Pa. campaign is resigning

Tom Marino, a five-term Republican congressman who helped steer Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign in Pennsylvania, said Thursday that he is resigning.

7 years ago

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