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Pa. Governor Tom Wolf (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY, file)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Wolf lead in Pa. gubernatorial race widens in new poll

A new Franklin and Marshall poll is good news for Democrats Gov. Tom Wolf and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey.

8 years ago

State Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown D-Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Pennsylvania House lawmaker convicted of taking cash bribes

A Harrisburg jury found Philadelphia Democratic Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown guilty of bribery.

8 years ago

This undated Pennsylvania Department of Transportation photo shows Robert Bowers, the suspect in the deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation via AP)
Community

Synagogue rampage suspect indicted as funerals continue

The indictment charges Robert Bowers with 44 counts, including hate crimes.

8 years ago

Main Street in Marcus Hook dead ends at the Monroe Energy refinery. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sen. Toomey raises alarms about Trump’s new ethanol policy

The issue pits corn-growers against refiners

8 years ago

The site of the Revolution Pipeline explosion that occurred in September 2018. (Marcellus Air)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP orders ETP to fix Revolution Pipeline erosion problems

Orders call for the company to cease some earth disturbance activity

8 years ago

Candidates for Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District, Republican Pearl Kim (left) and Democrat Mary Gay Scanlon, square off during a debate at Delaware County Community College in Delaware. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Battle of women in DelCo congressional race

We profile the race in the 5th Congressional district, where both candidates are women.

8 years ago

Stars of David with the names of those killed in a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, stand in front of the synagogue in Pittsburgh, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018.
The Why
Community

Tending the Tree of Life

The recent mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh left us grappling for answers. Why here? Why now? These are big questions with no easy answers. Where do we go from here?

Air Date: October 31, 2018

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U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (left) and Congressman Lou Barletta both hail from Northeastern Pennsylvania's coal region. Their philosophies, though, are worlds apart. (Abby Drey/Centre Daily Times via AP and loubarletta.com)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Casey, Barletta rooted in same region, but see vastly different worlds in U.S. Senate bid

Hailing from neighboring counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the two major candidates are rooted in the same challenges, but are coming up with very different solutions.

8 years ago

Listen 6:33
Dylan Wiliam, a British education researcher, speaks to the crowd at a ResearchEd conference in Philadelphia on Saturday October 27. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

A move to combat ‘folk teaching,’ conference connecting teachers with researchers comes to Pa.

Unlike an academic conference, a ResearchEd conference brings researchers face to face with principals and teachers.

8 years ago

Mourners gather outside Rodef Shalom Congregation before the funeral services for brothers Cecil and David Rosenthal, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in Pittsburgh. The brothers were killed in the mass shooting Saturday at the Tree of Life Synagogue. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Community

Cecil and David Rosenthal, ‘the boys,’ remembered as fixtures of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community

Many people at the service were Jewish, and many were not.

8 years ago

Vic Walczak, legal director of the ACLU Pennsylvania, says the new policy is not secure enough because corrections staff could potentially access mail. (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

ACLU sues Pennsylvania over stricter policy on prison mail

Instead of directly giving inmates letters from their lawyers, the DOC now photocopies them in front of recipients, then temporarily retains the original.

8 years ago

Technical.ly spent the better part of a week reporting on Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Robert Torres/Technical.ly)
Money
Broke In Philly

Soft skills, tech jobs: What Philly can learn from Albuquerque’s anti-poverty push

Technical.ly traveled to Albuquerque, N.M., to find what has worked — and what hasn't — in that city's approach to workforce development.

8 years ago

Melanie Manuel, left, and Chris Thomas on Portobello Road, just a block from their Notting Hill flat in London. Like thousands of other Pennsylvanians living abroad, Manuel and Thomas were initially blocked from applying for their absentee ballots because the Pa. Department of State website can’t be accessed from a foreign country (Jim Saksa/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvanians abroad run into online roadblocks for absentee voting

Pennsylvanian expats have run into a roadblock trying to access absentee ballots: The Department of State website can’t be accessed from a foreign country.

8 years ago

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey introduces himself to Cassondra Flanagan, an Army veteran, at the Veterans Multi-Service Center in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Seeking a third term in U.S. Senate, Casey talks about his roots, key issues

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey describes quest for another term representing Pennsylvania

8 years ago

Kristin Wessell, right, hands a bouquet of flowers to Marianne Novy on Murray Avenue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. Wessell was volunteering to bring some cheer to the neighborhood following Saturday's deadly attack on the nearby Tree of Life synagogue. Neither woman thinks President Trump should come to town. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
Community

Trump to visit Pittsburgh amid divide: ‘It’s sacred what happened here’

To Marianne Novy, Trump isn't wanted "unless he really changes his ways." For David Dvir, politics should pause for grief: "It's our president, and we need to welcome him."

8 years ago

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