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PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania are preparing to strike. The GETUP-UAW student union representing graduate student teaching and research assistants announced it will take a strike authorization vote, after it said...

Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania hosted a press conference on Monday with local elected officials to formally announce its strike authorization vote. The Nov. 3 event was the latest effort by GET-UP to rally graduate workers across the...

(The Center Square) - A coalition of lawmakers from both chambers of the Pennsylvania General Assembly joined activists at the Capitol Wednesday to demand billionaires pay more taxes. With the slogan, “Tax billionaires, fund PA,” the group spoke in support of a...

State Sens. Christine Tartaglione and Nikil Saval announced the introduction of Senate Bill 1054, legislation that would require all high schools in Pennsylvania to maintain opioid antagonists, such as naloxone or Narcan, onsite and to follow procedures developed by...

A bill introduced last week in the Pennsylvania Senate would require all high schools in the state to have opioid reversal drugs on hand. Under the measure, school personnel would volunteer to complete training on the use of naloxone, which goes by brand names...

All Pennsylvania high schools would be required to stock naloxone, the opioid-reversing drug, if a bill proposed in Harrisburg on Wednesday becomes law. State Sens. Christine Tartaglione and Nikil Saval, both Philadelphia Democrats, introduced legislation that would...

All Pennsylvania high schools would be required to keep naloxone, the opioid-reversing drug, on hand under new legislation introduced Wednesday in Harrisburg. The bill, sponsored by State Senators Christine Tartaglione and Nikil Saval of Philadelphia, would apply to...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) — Two Pennsylvania state lawmakers are getting ready to propose a bill they say will decriminalize homelessness in the Commonwealth. Lancaster County Representative Ismail Smith-Wade-El is teaming up with Philadelphia State Senator Nikil Saval....

Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania staged an informational picket on Wednesday to demand fair contracts and organize union members in preparation for a potential strike. The Oct. 8 demonstration attracted over 500 workers in support of the...

Local politicians circulated a memo on Friday proposing legislation to block Penn from signing the White House’s preferential funding compact. Penn was one of nine schools approached on Wednesday with the agreement, which would require the University to adhere to...

Lieutenant Colonel George E. Hardy, one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, passed away on Sept. 25 in Sarasota. He was 100 years old. Hardy was born in Philadelphia on June 8, 1925. While growing up in the City of Brotherly Love, he was exposed to...

(The Center Square) - With no budget and no viable long-term transit solutions in sight, the Senate recessed till Oct. 20 on Wednesday. Majority Leader Sen. Joe Pittman, R-Indiana, issued a statement, however, saying that the Philadelphia mass transit band-aid...

Are Democrats in the throes of a leadership crisis and what can younger voters and activists do about it? On September 10, two young progressives will issue a local call to action aimed at combating the social injustice and harmful inequities resulting from the Trump...

South Philly chef Phila Lorn received awards from local legislators after he earned the prestigious 2025 James Beard Award for Emerging Chef. The award is bestowed to only one chef a year “who displays exceptional talent, character and leadership ability, and who is...

HARRISBURG — Uber is trying to sell Pennsylvania lawmakers on a partial solution to the two-month budget impasse, telling them it supports taxing ride-hailing trips statewide to raise desperately needed revenue for public transit. But the pitch comes with a big...

Is our long regional nightmare about to be over? There are signs of compromise in Harrisburg. Governor Josh Shapiro floated a $49.9 billion compromise budget, a spending increase of 5 percent rather than the 8 percent he’d been seeking. And he and House Majority...

PHILADELPHIA — James Kpou was clutching his “senior citizen” fare card for this city’s vast network of buses, subways and light rail trains when he heard the announcement this week over the intercom at the 69th Street Transit Center.

Saval’s memo, titled “Solar-Ready Warehouses,” proposes requiring new warehouses and distribution centers to be constructed as “solar-ready”. It provides a tax credit for existing facilities to retrofit their infrastructure as “solar-ready,” due to the increasing...

Democratic Pennsylvania State Sen. Nikil Saval and Fox News contributor Liz Peek address Democrats embracing socialist ideas and the track record of socialist policies on 'The Cost of Socialism.'

“The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office plans to provide Immigration and Customs Enforcement training for one of its detectives,” LNP | LancasterOnline reported last week. “The DA’s office has applied to join ICE’s task force program, which allows approved...

Following a surge in reports from women alleging abuse by individuals posing as immigration agents, dozens of Democratic lawmakers are urging the Department of Homeland Security to reform enforcement protocols and require agents to clearly identify themselves. The...

Un grupo de personas se concentró frente a una oficina de U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) en Philadelphia para mostrar su apoyo a una propuesta dirigida por senadores estatales que exige a los agentes quitarse las máscaras durante las redadas...

Philadelphia Democratic officials are trying to send a clear message to ICE. Standing outside the Philadelphia field office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Center City on a hot Thursday morning, state lawmakers, immigration activists, and District...

Democratic lawmakers are crafting legislation in hopes of keeping eyes on ICE. State Sens. Amanda Cappelletti and Nikil Saval are introducing a “No Secret Police” bill that looks to keep law enforcement from concealing their identities – including U.S. Immigration and...

Dozens gathered outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Philadelphia on Thursday morning to show their support for a proposal in Harrisburg to require ICE agents to take off their masks. The planned legislation would prohibit law enforcement...

Pennsylvania lawmakers and community advocates gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Philadelphia Thursday to rally in support of new legislation they say would bring much-needed transparency and accountability to law enforcement,...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Two state legislators are introducing a bill that would prohibit law enforcement officers, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, from wearing masks or face coverings and hiding their identities during a detention or...

(The Center Square) - The growing debate about whether federal immigration agents should wear masks found a spotlight in Philadelphia on Thursday, where Democratic lawmakers spoke in support of a bill that would prohibit law enforcement officers from concealing their...

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania state lawmakers and community activists gathered in Philadelphia to introduce the "No Secret Police" legislation, aiming to require Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to wear visible identification and prohibit face coverings. The...

Local Democratic lawmakers gathered Thursday outside ICE’s Philadelphia field office to advocate for a proposal to ban immigration agents – and all other law enforcement officers – in Pennsylvania from wearing masks to conceal their identities. The measure, initially...

The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would fund SEPTA and avoid major service cuts at the end of the month, but it's expected to face challenges from Democrats in the state House. Senators first passed an amendment to the bill,...

PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA will implement its drastic service cuts, officials said in the wake of the Pennsylvania Senate Tuesday passing an amendment that aimed to fund SEPTA in the short-term through the Public Transportation Trust Fund and interactive gaming revenue....

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Senate has passed a funding bill that would largely use capital funding to maintain transit operations, a move the state’s governor and Democratically-controlled House say is not a viable solution to the funding...

The Pennsylvania Senate on Aug. 12 passed a different stop-gap funding proposal for SEPTA than the one the House passed the day before. A SEPTA spokesperson confirmed that without a funding solution before its Aug. 14 "doomsday" deadline, riders will see service cuts...

With the commonwealth approaching two months without a state budget, lawmakers in the Pennsylvania Senate returned to Harrisburg to consider a $47.7 billion General Fund budget proposal and a separate transit funding plan on Tuesday – with both proposals ultimately...

The Pennsylvania state Senate approved a budget Tuesday and advanced legislation that would fund SEPTA and other transportation infrastructure in the state for two years. The plan, opposed by Democrats, now heads back to the state House of Representatives, where it’s...

Local lawmakers, community leaders, advocates and local officials joined together outside of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Philadelphia Field Office on Thursday in a push towards state legislation against ICE officers who are unidentifiable due to the...