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Pennsylvania

 Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, is shown in 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
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Courts & Law

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

(Photo by Shutterstock)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

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

Politics & Policy

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

Health

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

(Toby Talbot/AP Photo)
Health

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

Parents at Kenderton Elementary in North Philadelphia regularly meet there to discuss their frustrations and hopes for the school. (Jessica Kourkounis/for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Part Five: As its neediest schools struggle, what can Pa. learn from Ontario’s success?

Part Five of our Ontario series

8 years ago

 Prices are up about a buck a bottle on over 400 items (WHYY file photo)
Money

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

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.
View Finders
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

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