Lebanon County tech students make parts for Space Station
Students at vocational and technical schools relish the opportunity to get real-world experiences. Very few ever get the chance to contribut...
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20 of 100 episodesLGBTQ advocates and allies fight efforts to repeal discrimination ordinance in Chambersburg
Saying it hasn’t happened anywhere else in Pennsylvania, LGBTQ advocates and allies are protesting a proposal by Chambersburg’s Borough Coun...
Lancaster County firm introduces hemp-fed, cage-free eggs
Hemp has been making a comeback in recent years. It’s a crop that played an important role throughout history until it became illegal to gro...
DEP: Number of polluted waterways in Pa. up
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection says a third of the state’s streams are impaired or polluted — meaning those waterwa...
Looking at Fulton County voting machine issues
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court last week blocked an inspection of voting machine equipment in heavily-Republican Fulton County – a county wher...
Poll confirms Americans deeply divided on election issues
A poll by Muhlenberg College and Keep Our Republic finds that Pennsylvanians continue to be polarized when it comes to elections and voting....
Penn State researchers find a way to predict COVID surges
The U.S. is in the middle of another COVID-19 surge – this one driven by the omicron variant. Almost two years into the pandemic, one of fru...
Low blood supplies are a “national crisis”
The nation’s blood supplies are at historically low levels and it could have real world impacts when patients need blood to be treated for a...
Central Pennsylvania figure skaters prepare for competition
The Winter Olympics in Beijing begin in less than three weeks on February 4th. Figure skating will be one of the most watched competitions a...
Harrisburg University will be home to new Center for Sustainability
News is out this week about the new Giant Center for Advanced Agriculture and Sustainability at Harrisburg University of Science and Technol...
Getting more minorities involved in agriculture
Fourteen percent of American farmers were Black a century ago. Today, only 1.4% of farmers are African-American. An organization that is try...
The state of agriculture in Pennsylvania
Agriculture is touted as Pennsylvania’s number one industry. It has a wide-ranging impact from the food we eat to the businesses that sell o...
Fire safety in spotlight after tragic fatal fires
Sunday morning, 17 people, including eight children, died in an apartment fire in the Bronx, New York. Twelve people, including eight childr...
Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2022 priorities on Smart Talk
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has just begun his final year in office. The governor appears on Wednesday’s Smart Talk to discuss a wide ran...
Support for men and women addicted to pornography
It’s estimated that 200,000 American adults are addicted to pornography — defined as “a person becoming emotionally dependent on pornography...
New law restricts surprise medical bills
Surprise medical bills or surprise balance billing could be a thing of the past under a new law that became effective the first of the year....
When to get tested and is it a cold, the flu or COVID?
After almost two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., the omicron variant is driving the biggest surge of cases y...
Travels With George — In Search of Washington and His Legacy
The nation’s first president George Washington was certainly the most revered person in young America and maybe the most beloved chief execu...
Pa. lags in meeting Chesapeake Bay restoration goals
Pennsylvania continues to trail other states in meeting its goals for the Chesapeake Bay restoration. According to the Chesapeake Bay Founda...
Penn State study says Pa. could see more flooding due to climate change
WITF’s StateImpact Pennsylvania reports most communities across Pennsylvania will likely face higher flood risks by the end of the century d...