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Pennsylvania

 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

 Sen. David Argall, at work in the Pennsylvania Senate, is mulling a run for lieutenant governor. (AP file photo)
Politics & Policy

Potential GOP candidate for Pa. lieutenant governor contrasts himself with Stack

A longtime state lawmaker is seriously exploring a bid for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor. Sen. David Argall, R-Schuylkill, said ...

8 years ago

 Russell Eagle Bear, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, has also looked into claiming the remains of some of his tribe's children who died at the Carlisle School. (AP file photo)
Community

Two Native American boys’ remains uncovered in Pa., third stays buried

After a painstaking exhumation in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, the remains of two Native American boys who died in the 1880s have bee ...

8 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Andrew Wyeth’s birth

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Andrew Wyeth's birth. The Brandywine River Museum of Art celebrates his life through an exhibit of his best work.

8 years ago

Middle school students change classes (Jessica Kourkounis for WHYY, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

New Pa. plan could help 220k students attend private school, putting a fifth of the state public school budget at risk

A powerful coalition of Pennsylvania lawmakers is promoting a forthcoming education savings account (ESA) bill that would allow hundreds ...

8 years ago

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Courts & Law

Allentown company founder arrested over graffiti supporting Pawlowski

A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of painting slogans on Allentown buildings in support of the city’s embattle ...

8 years ago

 Two Pennsylvania lawmakers have initiated the  process involved with holding a constitutional convention. The process would take at least two years. (Matt Rourke/AP)
Courts & Law

Lawmakers file memos to initiate a Pennsylvania constitutional convention

Two lawmakers are looking to introduce legislation that would force Pennsylvania to re-evaluate its constitution. The process is k ...

8 years ago

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Education

Shorter standardized tests coming to Pa. public schools

The Wolf administration is making changes to standardized testing in Pennsylvania elementary schools. Gov. Tom Wolf said Monday that the ...

8 years ago

Michael Becker with WHYY's Dave Heller. (WHYY photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Bucks County author Michael Becker talks about his memoir ‘A Walk with Purpose’

He joined NewsWorks Tonight’s Dave Heller to discuss life with a terminal illness and the activities that keep him going. & ...

8 years ago

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Author Samuel Lemon at WHYY speaking about his book 'The Case That Shocked The Country: The Unquiet Deaths of Vida Robare and Alexander McClay Williams' (Brett Rader/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

Was the youngest person executed by Pennsylvania actually innocent?

The O.J. Simpson parole hearing is dominating the non-politcal news, but the legacy of race relations looming large in the criminal justi ...

8 years ago

 Savannah and Layla in the kitchen of the family’s Kensington home. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Schooled
Education

A Fighter Since Birth: The story of Savannah Zayas — part one

By seventh grade, Savannah was already in danger of becoming a casualty of the North Philly streets; she’s endured horrific childho ...

Air Date: July 19, 2017

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