Workers at Heritage Farm in Philadelphia said the key to beating the heat is drinking lots of water and taking breaks.
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The ‘extreme and relentless heat’ is far from over
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Workers at Heritage Farm in Philadelphia said the key to beating the heat is drinking lots of water and taking breaks.
Troopers from Pennsylvania and five other states are doing targeted enforcement of their Move Over laws this week. The laws require cars to move over so there’s a clear lane separating them from a vehicle that’s pulled over and has flashing or rotating lights. Not to be confused with rules about staying out of the left lane if you’re driving slowly. -Emily Previti, Newsletter Producer/Reporter
Handling the heat
Kimberly Paynter / WHYY
Workers at Heritage Farm in Philadelphia said the key to beating the heat is drinking lots of water and taking breaks.
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Dangerously hot, humid weather like what we experienced last weekend could, unfortunately, become much more common in Pennsylvania — the norm, even, in some states — absent dramatic steps to address climate change, according to a recent report from the Union of Concerned Scientists. StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Marie Cusick has more details in this story.
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As it is, extreme weather affects agriculture. WHYY’s Naomi Brauner interviewed one farmer who expects a 20-to-30 percent loss in productivity from the latest heat wave alone. The full story is here.
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It’s pretty typical for county and local governments to require landlords to ensure their units’ heating systems work during the winter. Similar rules for air conditioning are far less common — but they’re under consideration in one Maryland county, PlanPhilly’s Jake Blumgart reports.
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Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood is one of the city’s poorest and most racially segregated — but some of its residents are former prisoners who successfully rebuilt their lives after their release. WESA just started rolling out the first installment of its “Homewood Bound” series exploring how their journey has affected the neighborhood as well as the area’s origins as an enclave for the city’s wealthiest families. The first few sound and web stories by An-Li Herring and Katie Blackley are here.
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Pennsylvania gaming revenue reached an all-time high of $3.3 billion during the 2019 fiscal year. That’s an increase of nearly 2 percent, or $60 million, over the year before, the Associated Press reports.
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WPSU’s Kristine Allen produced a series of three stories leading up to the 50th anniversary Saturday of the Apollo 11 launch. They include interviews with a Penn State professor working for NASA at the time, residents of Central and Northern Pa. who have vivid memories of the event and organizers of commemorative celebrations in State College. They’re all here.
