State House Sound Bites Podcast

Violent clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia dominated this week’s new... Read more

The Morning Call’s Steve Esack recently co-authored a series investigating Pennsylvania’s little-discussed Clean and Gre... Read more

On this week’s podcast, we catch up on a slew of nasty ads that have been circulating on TV—a sign the GOP gubernatorial... Read more

The state House returned to session this week and, after several days of intense budget negotiations, put their cards on... Read more

State Treasurer Joe Torsella stepped back into the political fray this week when he authorized a short-term loan to get ... Read more

Today’s podcast was recorded live as an episode of Smart Talk, WITF’s morning show. That means it’s twice as long, and f... Read more

It’s probably a little much to reference T.S. Eliot in a podcast title. But dealing as we are with a budget balanced on ... Read more

This week’s episode was recorded live for WITF’s morning show, Smart Talk. It’s about twice as long as usual, plus featu... Read more

Over the last week, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have published two stories ... Read more

Yes, this is the third podcast in a row that has focused on the fallout from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declaring th... Read more

By the time you listen to this podcast, there’s a good chance that things will look a bit different. All week, we’ve bee... Read more

With two weeks until the budget due date, lawmakers are staying mostly mum about negotiations. So unlike last week—which... Read more

The Pennsylvania Farm Show is in full swing, and we had planned to do a very Farm Show-centric episode. But as someone p... Read more

Over the last month or so, WITF and other public media stations have been rolling out a series of stories in collaborati... Read more

This was the legislature’s last session week of the year, and they made the most of it. Dozens of bills were passed betw... Read more

As of this writing (around noon on Friday, 6/30), the legislature is on track to send a spending plan for the 2017/18 fi... Read more

Pennsylvania’s legislature is kicking off the month of June with a bang. This week, all four caucuses (and governor Tom ... Read more

The Pennsylvania constitution is clear: residents of the commonwealth have a right to clean, safe drinking water. But th... Read more

In the past week, Pennsylvania has delayed a major payment to Medicaid insurers, the commonwealth’s credit has been down... Read more

It has now been several days since an unbalanced budget became law in Pennsylvania, and state government still hasn’t be... Read more