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Pennsylvania

Keystone Crossroads
Education

Part One: Even with progressive education funding, ‘fairness’ eludes Berlin schools

Part One of our Berlin series

8 years ago

Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan Soroka greets pilgrims.
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Community

Pilgrims return to abandoned coal town for worship and fellowship

Only a few structures still stand in what was Centralia, Pennsylvania. Even fewer are visible through the tree cover from the top of an a ...

8 years ago

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

What will the House do? It’s Pennsylvania’s $2B question

The question of what Pennsylvania’s House Republican majority will do about a $2.2 billion hole in the state budget is sending ripp ...

8 years ago

(Courtesy of Bigstock)
Health

Hoping to improve Pa. water-quality inspections, DEP to speed up trainings

Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection is working to speed up the training of several new water inspectors, in an ef ...

8 years ago

 A new Temple University survey shows that interpretation services in Pennsylvania's suburban courtrooms remain inadequate.(Wavebreak Media Ltd/Bigstock)
Courts & Law

Pa. small courts improve access to translators in criminal cases, still lag in other areas

Small courts in Pennsylvania are not consistently using professional interpreters, according to a recent report on 19 magisterial distric ...

8 years ago

 A report from the Commonwealth Foundation sought to identify where all the so-called 'earmarks' in the Senate's budget proposal would go. (AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Watchdogs raise concerns over Pa. budget ‘earmarks’

It’s been nearly a month since Pennsylvania’s Senate voted through a revenue plan to fund the state budget — if the House a ...

8 years ago

 Protesters chant outside Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai's office door. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Demonstrators call on Pa. House members to complete budget work

Pennsylvania has had an unbalanced budget for nearly a month, and activist groups around the commonwealth say Gov. Tom Wolf may soon have ...

8 years ago

 Matthew Jansen (second from the left) officially resigned as Spring Grove Area School District director. (Emily Previti/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Controversial school director quits board in south-central Pennsylvania

Spring Grove Area School District Director Matt Jansen has officially resigned more than a year after protests first erupted over his pub ...

8 years ago

 FILE - In a May 24, 2017 file photo, Tom Mesereau, attorney for model and Playboy bunny Danielle
Courts & Law

Cosby hires lawyer who represented Michael Jackson, ‘Suge’ Knight for sex assault retrial

Bill Cosby has hired Michael Jackson’s former lawyer to represent him at his November retrial on sexual assault charges in Pennsylv ...

8 years ago

 The last several decades have seen Pennsylvania's economy shift away from the manufacturing jobs that once sustained it. But the state has struggled to adapt. (AP Photo)
Money

As economy changes, state rep wants to make sure Pa. jobs keep up

Retail and manufacturing jobs are on the decline — both in Pennsylvania, and around the country. So a state lawmaker is looking for way ...

8 years ago

 Lawmakers are having trouble deciding whether to merge two major state departments. (AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. Dept. of Human Services gets a new secretary, but its future is still uncertain

Monday is state Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller’s first day leading the commonwealth’s sprawling Department of Human Service ...

8 years ago

 Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski arrives at the federal building in Philadelphia, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Allentown council amplifies efforts to oust indicted mayor

The city council in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is taking additional steps to remove its indicted mayor from office. Federal authorit ...

8 years ago

 McKeesport is one of few municipalities that have used Act 12, a law that offers a different way to privatize water systems in Pennsylvania. (Image courtesy of the Municipal Authority of the City of McKeesport website)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Act 12, explained: Customers more likely to see rates rise with Pa.’s new water privatization process

Pennsylvania is already known among water companies and their shareholders as being a good state for doing business. And now, it ...

8 years ago

 State Treasurer Joe Torsella is seriously considering digging his heels in over loaning money to prop up the state's general fund. (AP Photo)
Money

Pa. state treasury may stop loaning money to struggling general fund

Pennsylvania’s general fund is on track to be $1.6 billion dollars underwater by the middle of next month. In the past, the stat ...

8 years ago

Keystone Crossroads
Community

Listen to Grapple: How one Pa. community has been dealing with racial tension

Keystone Crossroads recently examined one Pennsylvania community where racial tension has turned violent, even fatal, multiple times over ...

8 years ago

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