Jim Kenney walks down Broad Street toward the Broad Street Ministry.
Kimberly Paynter / WHYY
Jim Kenney walks down Broad Street toward the Broad Street Ministry.
Kimberly Paynter / WHYY
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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney is up for re-election this year, and WHYY sent reporters to several neighborhoods to see what people think of the job he’s done. In Kenney’s childhood neighborhood in South Philly, there were some people not happy with him — or the soda tax he pushed for. But Kenney has his fans, and most voters that WHYY’s Dave Davies spoke to didn’t have strong opinions about the other candidates.
And in a poll of Philadelphia voters, 55 percent of respondents said the city’s soda tax should be repealed. The Philadelphia Inquirer has more on the survey results.
At the state level, state Rep. Seth Grove, R-York County, told his fellow lawmakers last month that he wants to prevent municipalities from passing soda taxes like the one in Philadelphia.
State-owned universities in Pennsylvania saw eight consecutive years of enrollment losses, Sara Hoover reports for WHYY. Hoover explains how a projected nationwide drop in college enrollment could impact Pennsylvania.
One day after a California synagogue shooting left one dead and three injured, people gathered in Pittsburgh to mark six months since the Tree of Life massacre. WESA’s Sarah Boden has the details.
Marie Cusick of StateImpact Pennsylvania breaks down why nuclear subsidies face such an uphill battle in Pennsylvania. One undecided Democratic lawmaker from Philadelphia said the expected costs for consumers is “a little hard for me to swallow.”
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