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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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Pennsylvania

A Norfolk Southern freight train hauling coal makes it way through downtown Pittsburgh Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017.
StateImpact
Science

PJM says plan to subsidize coal, nukes, ‘not workable’

8 years ago

In 2010 file photo, a wind turbine is pictured in the in front of a steaming coal power plant in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Don’t let the U.S. House Climate Solutions Caucus get your hopes up

Pennsylvania Republicans serving on the House Climate Solutions Caucus have voted against legislation that would fight climate change.

8 years ago

Clockwise from left to right: Dr. Seth Kaufer, Jessica Tirpak with son, Hunter, Ben Hornberger, Marian and Phil Spotts, Daphne Goggins, and James Bower. (Lindsay Lazarski, Jessica Kourkounis, Margaret Krauss/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Part 4: Trump supporters frustrated by Congress, the media, but still optimistic about the president

Part four in an occasional series where Keystone Crossroads checks in with Trump voters from across Pennsylvania throughout his presidency.

8 years ago

Listen 0:00
NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, October 20, 2017

The Philadelphia region’s Congressional delegation reacts to the Senate’s tax reform vote. Temple University law professor D ...

Air Date: October 20, 2017

Listen 0:00
Toomey walks through a hallway in the Capitol
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

N.J., Pa. GOP push tax overhaul, with one key reservation — property tax deductions

The effort to overhaul the nation's tax code is testing the GOP's ability to govern, and right now the region's lawmakers are highlighting the difficulty facing party leaders.

8 years ago

Listen 4:54
Close-up of Bruce Castor
Courts & Law

Ex-prosecutor, Bruce Castor to sue Cosby accuser, alleging personal injury

An attorney for Bruce L. Castor says the personal-injury complaint will claim Andrea Constand sued Castor for defamation in 2015 so he would lose the prosecutor's race.

8 years ago

Almost 20 local leaders, politicians, and businesspeople, mainly men in suits stand around a podium; the bacground a bridge and river
Urban Planning

On brink of deadline, several Philly suburbs develop Amazon fever

Bensalem and Bristol Township — both in Bucks County — and Delaware County join the long line of suitors for Amazon second headquarters.

8 years ago

Allentown Art Museum (Alphageekpa at English Wikipedia)
Arts & Entertainment

Allentown Art Museum jumps into downtown renaissance

Allentown Art Museum unveils strategic plan to become a proactive asset to city's revitalization.

8 years ago

Listen 0:00
Advocates supporting the lawsuit that eventually overturned the state's congressional map rallied outside Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman's office in Centre County in October 2017.  (Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Voter advocates urge Pa. Senate leader to reform redistricting process

Fair Districts PA delivered postcards collected from constituents to State Senator Jake Corman’s office, urging reform in redistricting.

8 years ago

In file photo, Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Pa., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Marino, President Donald Trump's former nominee to be the nation's drug czar, is defending his role in writing a law that critics say weakened the government's authority to stop companies from distributing opioids.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Officials working on opioid crisis in Pa. weigh in on Lycoming County’s Marino, who dropped bid to be Trump’s drug czar

“This was a failure of government," said Pa. Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

8 years ago

Two men pose for a picture, both in similar hues of purples
Community

The Philly tree? Yes, it's a thing — and there's a guide for that.

A new resource helps nature lovers reach a greater understanding of the trees that line streets, parks, and other spaces in Philadelphia and its neighboring areas.

8 years ago

Listen 0:00
Al Gore, grey suit, at a podium, black background
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Al Gore: We’re getting close to bipartisan action on climate

Al Gore says he’s optimistic the U.S. will break its political standoff over climate change, and that the U.S. is “not that far” from a bipartisan consensus on climate change.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Challenging gerrymandering

Guests: Carol Kuniholm, Sam Wang Pennsylvania routinely tops the list as the one of the country’s most gerryman ...

Air Date: October 19, 2017

Listen 48:59
 A crew works on a drilling rig at a well site for shale-based natural gas in Zelienople, Pennsylvania,  in 2012. A plan for a severance tax on drillers had advanced in the state House.. (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. natural gas tax passes House committee, may hit a wall before full vote

Advancing the plan is a big step for Democrats and moderate Republicans, who have pushed for years to levy the severance tax.

8 years ago

Centre County's Jake Corman, the Pennsylvania Senate majority leader. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. House budget plan disliked in the Senate, but being considered as end to impasse

The budget’s completion still could hinge on whether the state House and Senate can agree on a gambling expansion.

8 years ago

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