For those of you who listened to Radio PA’s special “Senate Spotlight: Pennsylvania,” here are the links to the complete and unedited interviews with Joe Sestak, Katie McGinty and John Fetterman. Click on their names below to hear the interviews.
Pennsylvania’s primary election is this Tuesday, April 26th.
This is “Ask the Governor” for March 2016. This edition was taped Wednesday, March 16th. Topics for this month include:
-The governor’s prostate cancer diagnosis
-The resignation/retirement of Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin
-The budget impasse
-The governor’s minimum wage executive order
-Medical marijuana
-Listener and web viewer emails
Click the player below to listen to the entire audio program.
Governor Tom Wolf announced Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with a treatable form of prostate cancer. First Lady Frances Wolf joined the governor during a 10-minute morning press conference.
Governor Wolf says his treatment will begin in the coming weeks and aside from taking a few days off at the onset, he’s planning to continue working and he says the medical condition will not hinder his abilities as governor. He hopes the public discussion of the condition will remind people of the importance of regular medical checkups.
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This blog post is taken from commentary in this weekend’s edition of Radio Pennsylvania Roundtable, hosted by Brad Christman. You can listen to the entire show, which includes Kathleen Kane’s statement here on PAMatters.com.
The great tragedy of this whole situation (the Kathleen Kane saga) may be that Kane had a chance to be the crusading power of justice she envisions in her own mind. The porn email scandal that has rocked Harrisburg – and was uncovered by her initial investigation of the handling of the Sandusky probe – could have been a shining moment for her, because…like Kathleen Kane or not…she is right about those who were involved in the inappropriate email chains. But her crusading effort is overshadowed and tainted by Kane’s use of the emails as a weapon in her own personal political agenda and legal battles. All along, the emails were used as a “chip” she would threaten to throw into the pot as her personal legal situation got murkier and murkier. As a result, any cries of justice in her efforts were overwhelmingly drowned out by the noise of a politician using her office as an arsenal for her own personal battles.
Kathleen Kane is not running again, and she seems to be the last person on the planet to have realized that. Her announcement this week fell on mostly indifferent ears even within her own party, as Democratic candidates and strategists noted that it was determined long ago that Kane was a non-factor in the coming election – whether she was a candidate or not.
Brad Christman is the News Director of the Radio PA Network, based in Harrisburg, and is the host of the network’s flagship program Radio Pennsylvania Roundtable. He has covered Harrisburg for the past 22 years.
Radio PA & PAMatters.com present the second in our series of candidate profiles in the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. Today we profile former Pennsylvania DEP Secretary Katie McGinty.
Previously, we presented an interview with former Congressman and Navy Admiral Joe Sestak. You can also listen to that interview in its entirety here on PAMatters.com.
Radio PA has also issued invitations to the campaign for candidate John Fetterman, and we will present that interview as well, should the campaign accept. To date, the Fetterman campaign had not selected a date to schedule that interview.
The Pennsylvania primary election is April 26th.
Click the player below to listen to the full interview with Katie McGinty…
Governor Tom Wolf addressed a joint session of the state legislature on Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 to deliver his second budget address to members of the General Assembly.
Click the audio player below to hear the full speech:
This is “Ask the Governor” for January 2016. This edition was taped Tuesday, January 26th. Topics for this month include:
-Dealing with the Blizzard of `16
-State budget issues (both current and next fiscal year)
-Kathleen Kane
-Listener and web viewer emails and much more…
Click the player below to listen to the entire audio program.
This is “Countdown 2015,” a special presentation of Radio Pennsylvania. Radio PA’s Brad Christman and WITF-Harrisburg’s Scott LaMar will count down and reflect on the top 10 Pennsylvania stories of 2015 as voted on by the news staff of Radio PA.
Take one look back at 2015 before turning the calendar to 2016 with this commercial-free retrospective.
All of us at Radio PA and PAMatters.com wish you a safe New Year’s celebration and a healthy and happy 2016.
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This is the complete and unedited interview with Radio PA’s Brad Christman and U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak, one of three candidates vying for the Democratic nomination in next spring’s primary. Radio PA has invited all three Democratic candidates to take part in our profile series, with the campaigns of Katie McGinty and John Fetterman also indicating they will join us in studio at a future date.
The winner of the Democratic primary will take on incumbent Republican Pat Toomey next November.
This is “Ask the Governor” for November 2015. This edition was taped Tuesday, November 24th. Topics for this month include:
-The breakdown in state budget talks
-The Paris attacks & Syrian refugees
-Attorney General Kathleen Kane
-Pennsylvania’s racing industry
-Listener and web viewer emails and much more…
Click the player below to listen to the entire audio program.