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Two weeks ago, we delved into how state House Dems politically miscalculated by seeming to reject a bipartisan budget deal that would have funded public schools at a historic rate while, at the same time, providing $100 million for private school vouchers. Hello,...

Industrial redevelopment is picking up in Southwest Philly: Amazon has told officials it will at last open its two-year-old, three-blocks-long complex adjoining Bartram High School by October, hiring the first of at least 200 workers. It will be the largest Amazon...

Pressure is building on the University of Pennsylvania to take disciplinary action against law professor Amy Wax for saying the U.S. is "better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration." Driving the news: State Sen. Anthony Williams joined other elected...

Philadelphia-area lawmakers and advocates joined a growing chorus on Thursday condemning the latest racist statements made by University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, calling for the school to revoke Wax’s tenure and an investigation into her employment....

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A University of Pennsylvania law professor is under fire again for remarks that elected leaders are calling racist and xenophobic, and they want the tenured professor to be removed. University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Amy Wax said...

As the latest controversy involving Penn Law professor Amy Wax demonstrates, law schools face an uphill battle in seeking to discipline tenured faculty members over "extramural" statements. What’s a law school to do when a tenured faculty member makes public comments...

Philadelphia leaders and politicians, led by Sen. Anthony H. Williams, convened Thursday to condemn anti-Asian comments made by University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax. The public officials questioned why Wax remains at the university as a tenured professor...

Philadelphia-area lawmakers and advocates Thursday joined the rising chorus condemning the latest racist statements made by University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, calling upon the school to revoke Wax’s tenure and scrutinize her employment. Standing outside...

PHILADELPHIA - A long-tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania is under fire for alleged controversial comments she made about the Asian immigrant community on a podcast. Law Professor Amy Wax appeared on The Glenn Show last December and spoke about the...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- There are growing calls for the tenure of a University of Pennsylvania law school professor to be revoked after she said the country is "better off with fewer Asians." Amy Wax made the comments during an interview in which she stoked fears about...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s state Senate on Tuesday approved two veto-bound firearms bills, including one to allow people to carry a loaded gun openly or concealed, without a permit, and another to punish municipalities that impose firearms ordinances that are...

New York City has become the first major American city to complete a primary election through ranked choice voting. This alone is a historic win for the Black, brown and marginalized people of New York City. The candidates who received 50% of the vote in this primary...

DELAWARE COUNTY, Pa. - Shocking revelations about what allegedly went on behind closed doors at a juvenile detention center in Delaware County. "We're here because of systemic abuse. The systemic abuse of children," public defender Chris Welsh said. Delaware County's...

DELAWARE COUNTY, Pa. (CBS) —  In Delaware County, a call for action after a detention facility for children was shut down over allegations of abuse. The Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center was closed earlier this month. The public defender’s office says it...

Just over a week after Delaware County’s president judge emptied the county’s youth detention center in Lima, state and local officials called for dismantling a juvenile-justice system where they said abuse is endemic. “How many times does this have to happen before...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A bitter dispute erupted on the floor of the Pennsylvania Senate on Tuesday when majority Republicans blocked a Democratic incumbent from being sworn in because his GOP challenger has disputed the razor-thin election results.   Lawmakers were...

Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday ordered the state Planning Board to come up with recommendations on land use, planning, zoning, and storm-water management that would reduce flooding in communities affected by climate change, such as Philadelphia’s Eastwick section that was...

WEST PHILADELPHIA - A group of Philadelphia officials joined the family of a fallen police office in gathering to denounce the defacing of a mural dedicated to that officer. Over the weekend, police say a mural of Sgt. Robert Wilson III on the 6000 block of Baltimore...

City and state legislators, police commanders, and community residents gathered Tuesday morning in Southwest Philadelphia to denounce the weekend vandalism of the mural of slain Sgt. Robert Wilson III, calling the spraying of anti-police graffiti on the public art...

A crowd of city officials and West Philadelphians gathered Tuesday morning to condemn the recent vandalization of a mural honoring Police Sgt. Robert Wilson III, who was killed in 2015 by two gunmen while trying to stop a robbery. On Sunday, the mural, located near...

After recently recovering from the coronavirus, Senator Anthony Williams is hosting the Racial Equity Solutions Tour on Zoom

Amilcar Arroyo recalls that when he first came to Hazleton, a small city in southern Luzerne County, in 1989, he was one of just a handful of Spanish-speaking people who lived there. But things have changed so much since then. Almost 60% of the people who now live in...

The Pennsylvania Senate unanimously approved a bill to revamp Pennsylvania’s probation system Wednesday, a step criminal justice reform advocates have long awaited. Advocates and lawmakers have said the probation system is preventing people from rebuilding their lives...

At a time when politicians of all stripes are thinking of ways to reshape the criminal justice system, an oft-overlooked law enforcement practice is receiving new scrutiny. Civil asset forfeiture, the process of police departments confiscating property they suspect is...

A protest organized by 16-year-old Penn Wood High student Tori Monroe brought more than 1,000 people to walk through Lansdowne and Yeadon on Sunday, including Yeadon Police Chief Anthony "Chachi" Paparo who kneeled on both knees at the event's conclusion. "We came...

MEDIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Delaware County Council and District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer announced the creation of a Criminal Justice Reform Task Force on Tuesday. The announcement comes on the heels of protests around the country after the death of George...