Entries by PAMatters
Hearing to Focus on Child Advocacy Center Bill
A Child Advocacy Center can be the focal point of care for young victims of physical or sexual abuse. With them, state Rep. Julie Harhart (R-Lehigh/Northampton) says child victims must only tell their traumatic stories once. Without them, she says, they would have to go through that experience five or more times for police officers, […]
Corbett Pleased with Recent Bipartisanship, Eager for More
While addressing upcoming talks of pension reform, on Radio PA’s Ask the Governor program, Tom Corbett emphasized that pensions are a bipartisan issue. “There has been an outbreak of bipartisanship as far as I am concerned, not only in Harrisburg but across Pennsylvania,” he continued. Gov. Corbett cites bipartisan votes on a host of budget-related […]
Bike Ride Raises Obesity Awareness
The “Capitol to Capitol – ONE Ride” took 30-bicyclists and more than a dozen volunteers from the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg to the US Capitol in Washington DC this week. “Yesterday my legs were pretty sore,” Kim Razzano said of the 155-mile trek. But the president of the Pennsylvania State Association of Health, Physical Education, […]
Radio PA Roundtable 07.13.12
Radio PA Roundtable is a 30-minute program featuring in-depth reporting on the top news stories of the week. Professionally produced and delivered every Friday, Roundtable includes commercial breaks for local sale and quarterly reports for affiliate files. Click the audio player below to hear the full broadcast: [audio:https://s3.amazonaws.com/witfaudio/radiopa/Roundtable07-13-12.mp3]
PSU Independent Investigation Report Released (Update)
From 1998 – 2011, former FBI Director Louis Freeh says the “tone at the top” of Penn State was “completely wrong.” Freeh was tapped by the Penn State Board of Trustees, last November, to conduct an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. More than seven months later, Freeh […]