Smart Talk: Attorney General could face criminal charges; Capitol week; Wolf agenda; Invisibilia preview
What to look for on Smart Talk Friday, January 9, 2015:
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that a Grand Jury has recommended criminal charges be filed against Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane. The Inquirer’s Angela Couloumbis joins us on Smart Talk today to provide details.
The new Pennsylvania legislature met at the State Capitol for the first time in 2015 this week. New legislative leaders were elected and even though there weren’t any big surprises, leadership in the House and Senate will look different.
WITF’s Capitol Bureau Chief Mary Wilson appears on Friday’s Smart Talk to explain why.
Tom Wolf made several substanial campaign promises when he was running for governor last year.
On January 20, the York County Democrat will be sworn in and will begin the work to implement those promises.
The York Daily Record’s Ed Mahon is writing a series on several of Wolf most significant goals — increasing the state’s share of education spending, imposing a 5% extraction tax on natural gas drillers, and changing Pennsylvania’s earned income tax.
Mahon explains on Friday’s Smart Talk.
Finally, public radio audiences that are curious and thoughtfull will like the new series — Invisibilia. It debuts Saturday at 8 p.m. on WITF-FM. The program is about the unseen forces that control human behavior.
The show’s co-hosts LuLu Miller and Aliz Spiegel are on Smart Talk with more details.
