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Politics

Recycling bins on Cuthbert Street in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Streets Department: Philly to stop burning recyclables

At a budget meeting Wednesday, the Philadelphia Streets Department chief told City Council that all the recycling material the city collects will soo be recycled again.

7 years ago

Attorney General William Barr speaks about the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report during a news conference, Thursday, April 18, 2019, at the Department of Justice in Washington. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

DOJ releases Mueller report on investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election

Barr said that no one outside the Justice Department has seen the unredacted Mueller report.

7 years ago

In the 1930s, Pennsylvania made it illegal to play baseball and other sports at certain times on Sundays. (AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Pa. lawmakers cleaning up old laws on Sunday baseball, public music

The retired statutes are prime examples of the 'blue laws' that once aimed to restrict activities on Sundays.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn as he arrives at the White House in Washington.  Trump on Tuesday vetoed a resolution passed by Congress to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Politics & Policy

Trump vetoes move to end U.S. involvement in Yemen war

The veto — the second in Trump's presidency — was expected. Congress lacks the votes to override him.

7 years ago

Sawsan Ali, left, and son Maaz Mohammed celebrate the fall of Sudanese leader Omar Al-Bashir. (Abdul R. Sulayman/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Local Sudanese happy to see longtime dictator al-Bashir removed

These sentiments echoed through the approximately 3,000 members of the Sudanese community in greater Philadelphia this weekend.

7 years ago

Arizona State Elections Director Eric Spencer, middle, helps Arizona Healthy Working Families Initiative group members deliver more than 270,000 signatures to the elections office at the Arizona Capitol, Thursday, July 7, 2016, in Phoenix, in hopes of qualifying a measure for the November ballot to raise the state's minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020 and provide earned sick days to workers. (Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)
Money
PA Post

Why and how 11 Trump states raised the minimum wage, explained

Here’s a look at the path to minimum wage increases in other reddish states.

7 years ago

In this photo provided by the New Jersey Office of the Governor, N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy signs the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act Friday, April 12, 2019 at the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. New Jersey is the seventh state to enact a law permitting terminally ill patients to seek life ending medication. (New Jersey Office of the Governor via AP)
Health

Beginning in August, terminally ill N.J. patients will have right to end their lives

Terminally ill patients in New Jersey will have to meet with two doctors and wait at least 15 days before they can get the lethal drugs.

7 years ago

Sharif Street launches his campaign for state Senate in 2017. Behind him are (from right) his father, former Philadelphia Mayor John Street and former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Pa. lawmaker continues push to give certain ‘lifers’ second chance

State Sen. Sharif Street is again trying to give the state parole board the option of releasing hundreds of inmates serving life without parole.

7 years ago

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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, center, is being challenged by former City Controller Alan Butkowitz, left, and state Sen. Anthony Williams, right. (WHYY file)
The Why
Politics & Policy

Why Philly’s mayoral candidates are hardly campaigning

Do Philly voters even know there's a mayoral primary going on? Why is the campaign so quiet, even as outside groups pour money into the race?

Air Date: April 15, 2019

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2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris speaks to students at a local cafe, Thursday, April 11, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Money

Kamala Harris is latest 2020 Dem contender to release taxes

Harris reported an income of about $157,000 in 2018 from her job as a senator, as well as about $320,000 in net income as a writer.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the deployment of 5G technology in the United States during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, April 12, 2019, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
Community

FCC to hold big 5G auction, spend $20B for rural internet

The U.S. government will hold a massive auction later this year to bolster 5G service, the next generation of mobile networks.

7 years ago

WikiLeaks has made multiple disclosures over the past decade, including one in March 2017 when the group released what it said were CIA technical documents on a range of spying techniques. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

How much did WikiLeaks damage U.S. national security?

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has often argued that no one has been harmed by the disclosures. But many in the national security community say the leaks were harmful.

7 years ago

In this photo provided by the New Jersey Office of the Governor, N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy signs the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act Friday, April 12, 2019 at the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. (New Jersey Office of the Governor via AP)
Health

New Jersey enacts law on assisted suicide for terminally ill

Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday signed legislation making New Jersey the seventh state to enact a law permitting terminally ill patients to seek life-ending medication.

7 years ago

Public domain image.
Down the Shore
Politics & Policy

Dry since 1940, Shore town ponders allowing alcohol sales

Wildwood Crest is considering lifting the prohibition, in place since voters passed a referendum in 1940, and soliciting the opinions of residents. 

7 years ago

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Health

Gov. Murphy signs law requiring mental health coverage parity by insurers

The new measure requires insurers to cover mental health care to the same extent and degree as physical health, and expands the conditions that qualify.

7 years ago

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