
Pennsylvania
It’s time to move forward on a Pa. tax bill
In states as different as Kansas and Illinois, Republican legislators have recognized reality and retreated from ...
8 years ago
A look ahead at Pennsylvania’s 2018 political races
Statewide political party leaders are starting to hone their messaging for — and against — candidates, more than a year before the mi ...
8 years ago
Video of U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s town hall in Bethlehem
Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey met with voters in a town hall in Thursday evening. Toomey took questions fro ...
8 years ago
Pennsylvania’s obesity rate rises to 30 percent
Obesity has been on the rise across the country for more than 20 years, and Pennsylvania’s rates have followed suit. Thirty ...
8 years ago
Pa.’s prescription drug monitoring program turns one year old
One of the root causes of opioid addiction is over-prescription of addictive drugs. A major reason it occurs is the practice of do ...
8 years ago
Part Five: As its neediest schools struggle, what can Pa. learn from Ontario’s success?
Part Five of our Ontario series
8 years ago
Pa.’s state liquor stores are hiking prices
Prices are on the rise for some of the most popular wines and liquors sold in Pennsylvania state liquor stores. It’s the first h ...
8 years ago
Part One: Even with progressive education funding, ‘fairness’ eludes Berlin schools
Part One of our Berlin series
8 years ago
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
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
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
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
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
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
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