Lucy Perkins
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90.5 WESA
Republicans wanting a stricter voter identification provisions in Pennsylvania is emerging as an early flashpoint with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in what GOP lawmakers cast as a top-to-bottom update of state election law.
Commonwealth Media Services
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Jose Luis Magana
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AP
Reid Frazier
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StateImpact Pennsylvania
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The sponsor, Rep. Jim Cox of Berks County, said many employers are having trouble finding workers. Lawmakers suspended the work-search requirement through 2020, but Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has extended the waiver administratively. -
On today’s program: State Rep. Mark Rozzi explains what it would mean for his bill, giving survivors of childhood sexual abuse two years to sue perpetrators, to pass; and a Lancaster County health administrator explains how they’re making inroads to vaccinate the Amish and Plain communities.
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Voters in the upcoming primary will get to weigh in on TWO constitutional amendments to change how different branches of state government could exercise their powers during an emergency.
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A campaign event for Jake Corman, the top Republican in the state Senate, is being organized by a company that has cornered the market on a political practice he wants to end.
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Voting by mail in Pa. was expanded by a 2019 law, but that option is not necessarily new.
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Union members called on House Health Committee Chair Kathy Rapp to consider their proposal.
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Mark Nordenberg, the former chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, is the state high court’s appointee and the tie-breaking fifth member of the panel that will redraw boundaries of Pennsylvania’s legislative districts. The state Supreme Court delivered the news Monday.
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Republican state lawmakers say Pennsylvania should immediately terminate the no-bid state contract of a company that performed COVID-19 contact tracing and exposed the private medical information of tens of thousands of residents.
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Voters 18 and older who are U.S. citizens and have been a Pennsylvania resident for at least 30 days can register to vote online, at their county voter registration office, or at a PennDOT location.
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While a court declared Pennsylvania's previous congressional map was drawn to benefit Republicans, the current legislative maps have not faced the same level of scrutiny.
