Crime and Justice
Republicans Ask Top State Court To Suspend Its Vote-By-Mail Order
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“[The ruling] jeopardizes the security and integrity of our elections and will potentially put Pennsylvania in the middle of a disastrous national crisis.”
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PA Legislature’s Delays Could Prompt Election Chaos In November
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“If they get too far into the weeds or attempt to drop in other fixes now, my fear is nothing will get done.”
Episodes
PA Election Officials Urge Swift Legislative Action On Voting Reforms
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Changes to state law need to be effective by early September if counties are to implement them in time for the general election.
Episodes
Provisional Ballots Adding To Delay In Pennsylvania’s Primary Results
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More voters cast provisional ballots Tuesday because they hadn’t received their mailed ballot or feared it wouldn’t make the return deadline.
Episodes
Coronavirus Precautions And Protests Create Problems But Fail To Disrupt PA’s Primary Election
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The challenge now: Counting nearly 2 million mail-in ballots. Final results may take a week to tabulate
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Your Questions About Voting In The Pennsylvania Primary, Answered
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Wolf makes surprise announcement that he’s extending deadline for returning mail-in ballots by a week
Episodes
PA Governor Urges Voters To Apply For Mail-In Ballots For June 2 Primary
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But, he offered few specifics on how his administration will help counties deal with the huge volume of mailed ballots.
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PA Counties Could Be Overwhelmed By Mail-In Ballots, Election Directors Warn
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Election chiefs call on state officials to allow processing to start earlier, clarify which polling places can open.
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PA Counties Struggle To Find Enough Masks, Gloves For In-Person Voting June 2
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“Literally, ‘Pay me now and maybe you will get some stuff some time in the future,’ is where some vendors are starting.”
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Lawsuit Seeks To Extend Mailed Ballot Return In PA By One Week
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Voters who request absentee and mail-in ballots before the May 26 deadline might receive them at different times due to “factors outside their control.”
Economy
12% Of PA Workers Submitted Unemployment Claims In Second Half Of March
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State leads nation in percentage of workforce seeking benefits
Government
Pennsylvanians Say They’re Fed Up With Secrecy And Manipulation Surrounding Redistricting
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Citizens think the state’s redistricting process is broken and corrupt, manipulated by politicians for their own gain, and lacks transparency.
Act 79
For PA Sheriffs, New “Protection From Abuse” Law Means More Guns To Store
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In Columbia County, for example, the sheriff’s storage area was at 90 percent capacity as state lawmakers debated the PFA law last year in Harrisburg.
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Creating A Fairer Map: PA Redistricting Reform Panel Kicks Off Public Input Tour
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Pennsylvania will redraw its congressional and legislative districts after the 2020 census – and there’s a renewed push to change the rules before that happens.
Government
After Years Of Debate, PA Taxpayers Still Fund State Troopers In Towns Without Cops
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About 1,300 Pennsylvania communities don’t have their own police departments and rely instead on state police. But they don’t pay anything for the service – and it costs state taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars every year.
Elections
Turnout Up Everywhere In PA Since The Last Midterm
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Pennsylvania’s turnout jumped from 43 percent in 2014 to 58 percent in this year’s midterm.
News
PA’s Tenth Congressional District’s A Toss-up: How We Got Here
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(Undated) — Organizers weren’t sure, initially, whether U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-10, would appear in-person for the Cumberland 9/12 Patriots’ candidates forum in Carlisle last spring.
News
A Combative Campaign In Pennsylvania’s Coal Region
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KEYSTONE CROSSROADS — Candidates in Pennsylvania’s Ninth Congressional District held their final debate at WVIA in Pittston Tuesday night, concluding a race marked recently by personal attacks.
News
US Supreme Court Rejects GOP Appeal Over Changes To PA’S Congressional Map
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KEYSTONE CROSSROADS — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider another appeal by Republican state lawmakers over this year’s changes to Pennsylvania’s congressional district map.
Government
PA Lawmakers Advance Redistricting Overhaul As Deadline Looms
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STATE IMPACT PENNSYLVANIA — State lawmakers have advanced a bill that would change the state’s constitution to put its congressional district map in the hands of an citizens’ commission, one whose 11 members would be chosen by elected officials.
News
Voter Turnout In PA Primary Up Slightly From 2014
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(KEYSTONE CROSSROADS) — Voter turnout was 18 percent in the Pennsylvania’s primary election earlier this week – three points higher than the last midterm primaries in 2014, but about a point lower than the average for the past several such elections.
News
Two Former Cabinet Secretaries Face Off In PA’s 9th Congressional District
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KEYSTONE CROSSROADS — Republican Dan Meuser, who was Gov. Tom Corbett’s Secretary of Revenue, and Democrat Denny Wolff, agriculture secretary for Gov. Ed Rendell, won their respective primaries in Pennsylvania’s ninth district Tuesday.
Elections
Redrawn PA Congressional Map In Play During Today’s Primary
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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (KEYSTONE CROSSROADS) — Pennsylvania voters are heading to the polls today for the first election under a new congressional map.
Elections
Congressional Candidates In PA’s 9th District Diverge On Legalizing Marijuana
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LEBANON, PA (KEYSTONE CROSSROADS) — Primary elections often feature a field of candidates with policy positions that are barely distinguishable as they court voters of the same party.
News
Central PA Congressional Race Has Single Focus: Guns
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STATE IMPACT PENNSYLVANIA – York County pastor George Scott is one of four Democrats running for the nomination to try to unseat Republican Congressman Scott Perry in Pennsylvania’s 10th district.
Government
PA Launches Concealed-Carry Website To Clarify Rules For Gun Owners
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KEYSTONE CROSSROADS — The state Attorney General’s office has launched a website where gun owners can check which states recognize Pennsylvania’s concealed carry permits — and which outside permits are recognized by the commonwealth.
GOP Guts Bill Proposing Independent Redistricting Commission
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KEYSTONE CROSSROADS — The Pennsylvania legislature would get more control over how state legislative boundary lines are drawn under an amended bill that passed out of the House Government Committee along party lines Wednesday. The original bill removed lawmakers from the process in favor of an independent citizens’ commission. State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, says lawmakers are the most accountable of anyone who might be tasked with legislative reapportionment. “The best way to make sure we have citizens actually being the ones redrawing, citizens who are held accountable to their fellow citizens who elect them to office, and are not just going to go away after the work is done, and be held accountable in the future for their decisions, is to totally gut and replace this bill,” said Metcalfe, committee chairman. Metcalfe’s amendment completely changed House Bill 722 from its original intent.
Government
Lawmakers Discuss Impeachment Of PA Supreme Court Justices
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STATE IMPACT PENNSYLVANIA — Some Pennsylvania lawmakers want to impeach four of seven state Supreme Court justices for what they say was judicial overreach — after the court redrew the Commonwealth’s congressional map earlier this year.
News
Candidates Statewide Scramble To Adjust To Pennsylvania’s New Congressional Map
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KEYSTONE CROSSROADS – Democratic congressional hopeful Laura Quick and two campaign staffers recently set up shop for the afternoon inside a Panera Bread not too far from her home in Palmyra, Lebanon County.
Government
Timeline: The Battle Over Pennsylvania’s Congressional District Map
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KEYSTONE CROSSROADS – Pennsylvania’s congressional map has been recognized nationally as having some of the starkest examples of gerrymandering in the country, prompting both a state and a federal lawsuit in 2017. A three-judge panel in the federal case upheld the map as drawn by Republicans in 2011. The state case compelled the Democratic-majority Pa. Supreme Court to strike it down as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. This ruling seems likely to alter the partisan tilt of the state’s congressional delegation, which has held a steady 13-5 Republican advantage.
Elections
State Government Standoff: Pennsylvania’s ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Over Court’s Redistricting Decision
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KEYSTONE CROSSROADS – Friday is the court-imposed deadline for the Pennsylvania legislature to agree on a new congressional district map. But the legislature wasn’t in session Wednesday or Thursday this week, even though procedural rules would suggest they needed to be there to progress through the necessary parliamentary steps in time.