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State of the State, 60 episodes.

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When the State Stopped: Episode 1

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When the State Stopped: Episode 2

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When the State Stopped: Episode 3

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Episode 54: The headlines of 2019

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Episode 53: Legislative avalanche

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Episode 52: Pipeline problems

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Episode 50: The Marsy’s Law twists continue

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Episode 49: Elections, abortions, booze and more

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Episode 48: More on Marsy’s Law

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Episode 47: Abuse in the church, and other stories

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Episode 46: Air quality, child abuse, and the Sacklers’ Pa. resort

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Episode 45: Guns and weed and government regulation

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Episode 44: The senator has resigned

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Episode 43: Without parole

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Episode 42: The never-ending quest to kill property taxes

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Episode 41: Pennsylvania’s big gun debate

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Episode 40: Congressional cash

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Episode 39: There’s a reason PA’s congressional maps are weird

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Episode 38: What a state-run insurance marketplace means for you

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Episode 37: The (sometimes tumultuous) path to passing PA’s budget

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Episode 36: We ask the governor your questions

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Episode 35: Staying mum on the minimum wage

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Episode 34: Telling the story of a Pennsylvania soldier rescued on D-Day +1

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Episode 33: State forest drilling and the gas cash impasse

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Episode 32: Rachel Carson and the fall and rise of the peregrine falcon

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Episode 31: The abortion debate

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Episode 30: More thoughts on guns

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Episode 29: Moving the needle on criminal justice

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Episode 28: Is Marsy’s Law an obvious fix, or a well-intentioned mistake?

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Episode 27: Where did this bill come from?

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Episode 26: To kill or not to kill the electoral college

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Three Mile Island: As It Happened Part 3

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Three Mile Island: As It Happened Part 2

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Three Mile Island: As It Happened Part 1

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Episode 25: To nuke, or not to nuke

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Episode 24: The neighborhood beneath the Capitol

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Episode 23: The greatest hits of Budget Hearings 2K19

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Episode 22: Why PA’s prison system is changing mail policies. Again.

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Episode 21: Mary Jane’s first chance

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Episode 20: Budget season is back, baby

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Episode 19: New-session pandemonium

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Episode 18: A hole in a yard and a death overseas

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Episode 17: An inauguration, an interminable shutdown, and teachers with(out) guns

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Episode 16: So, you want to be a farmer?

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Episode 15: Session begins anew

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Episode 14: Looking back at a very political 2018

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Episode 13: The business of Christmas

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Episode 12: The price of election security

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Episode 11: Taxing the open road

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Episode 10: It ain’t easy voting absentee

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Episode 9: PA’s mental healthcare approach has problems (a series)

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Episode 8: The election is over; what lies ahead for Pennsylvania?

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Episode 7: Pittsburgh

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Episode 6: Countdown to the midterms

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Episode 5: Legislative session ends, election run-up (and polling) intensifies

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Episode 4: Congressional races that should be on your radar

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Episode 3: Does PA owe the poor better criminal defense? An investigation.

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Episode 2: Prisons, drugs and inmates’ rights

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Episode 1: The Fall Session Begins

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