Regional & State News
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Matt Rourke
Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal gets warm welcome from mental health leaders
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Matthew Toth
Shooting in Lebanon kills 3, including 2 children, wounds 4th person
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NPR
WITF alum Scott Detrow named weekend host of ‘All Things Considered’ and ‘Consider This’
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Commonwealth Media Services
Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro won’t share daily calendar, a departure from previous governor’s transparency
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is declining to make public his daily calendar, a policy that obscures many of the details about who he meets with and what they discuss.
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Amanda Andrade-Rhoades
Scott Perry, Freedom Caucus members do not support debt ceiling increase
By Katie Knol
The Morning Agenda – a new podcast from WITF
Each weekday morning, host Tim Lambert will keep you informed, amused, enlightened and up-to-date on what’s happening in central Pennsylvania and the rest of this great commonwealth.
Health
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Matt Rourke
Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal gets warm welcome from mental health leaders
By Katie Knol -
Beata Zawrzel
We asked, you answered: How do you feel about the end of the COVID-19 ’emergency’
We asked readers what was on their minds at this inflection point in the world’s pandemic response.
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Keith Srakocic
National drug shortage impacting cancer care at UPMC
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Emma Lee
Would mandated nurse-to-patient ratios fix Pa.’s nursing shortage?
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Pa. opioid settlement money: What you need to know
In Pennsylvania, there’s currently no single resource for people to see how counties and local governments plan to spend the money. But understanding the process can help you influence it.
Climate & Energy
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Reid R. Frazier
Pa. advocates say more scrutiny needed over well-plugging money
Pennsylvania has upwards of 200,000 estimated orphan and abandoned wells.
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Fixit culture is on the rise, but repair legislation faces resistance
According to the Public Interest Research Group, people in this country generate more than 12% of the planet’s trash, though we represent only 4% of the global population.
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Alex Brandon
The Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act
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Reid R. Frazier
Shell’s air pollution violations result in $10 million fine for Beaver County ethane cracker
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Jeff Brady
Pennsylvania high court to consider plan to make power plants pay for greenhouse gas emissions
Politics & Policy
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Matt Rourke
Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal gets warm welcome from mental health leaders
By Katie Knol -
Commonwealth Media Services
Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro won’t share daily calendar, a departure from previous governor’s transparency
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is declining to make public his daily calendar, a policy that obscures many of the details about who he meets with and what they discuss.
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Amanda Andrade-Rhoades
Scott Perry, Freedom Caucus members do not support debt ceiling increase
By Katie Knol -
Michael Kunzelman
Pennsylvania woman who threatened Nancy Pelosi with hanging during Capitol riot gets over 2 years in prison
A Pennsylvania restaurant owner who screamed death threats directed at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while storming the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison
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Joe Raedle
Trailing Trump, DeSantis still bears burdens that have brought down past front-runners
If his current poll standing makes him the first choice of just one Republican in four, he is still the second choice of half the party.
By Ron Elving/NPR
National & World News
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NPR
WITF alum Scott Detrow named weekend host of ‘All Things Considered’ and ‘Consider This’
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Amanda Andrade-Rhoades
Scott Perry, Freedom Caucus members do not support debt ceiling increase
By Katie Knol -
Philadelphia and other US cities hope to keep homicide numbers dropping and prevent summer surge
The push for more police and community involvement comes despite a continuing decline in homicides and other violent crimes that spiked in 2020.
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Jon Cherry
Pennsylvania man sentenced to 5 years in prison for participation in Jan. 6
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Courtesy of Cole Lyle
These are some of the people who’ll be impacted if the U.S. defaults on its debts
By Scott Horsley/NPR
