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The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that Penn State research assistants are employees who can unionize, rejecting an appeal by the university to exclude research assistants from a graduate student employee union.
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Thursday, October 29, 3 p.m. & Friday, October 30, 8 p.m. on WPSU. ProPublica’s investigative podcast “Paper Trail” uncovers tapes of a bureaucrat quietly reshaping our federal government; and investigates the Trump administration’s effort to find the alleged hundreds of thousands of noncitizen voters the president claims are skewing U.S. elections.
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WPSU explores what a facility fee is, why hospital outpatient clinics charge them and what’s being done at the state level to protect people against surprise bills from facility fees.
On Halloween Night, hear an eerie mix of music and stories on Fright Night. At 8:00, hear an episode of the public radio series, Spooked. Then at 9:00, The Mighty Wiggus is your host for the annual Halloween edition of The Local Groove. And from 10:00 to midnight, a ghost host brings you an eerie Halloween soundscape of music and stories. Join us for Fright Night, October 31 from 8:00 p.m. until midnight on WPSU-FM.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. After you cast your vote, join WPSU that evening for NPR's special live coverage of the 2026 midterm elections, with updates from the WPSU news team. Special coverage beings November 3 at 8 p.m. on WPSU-FM.
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Pennsylvania Democrats are defending a slim House majority and trying to flip the Senate after decades of GOP control. The key contests stretch from Bucks to Lancaster and western Pa. -
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In her poem "Hurricane Season," Monica Prince counsels herself to stand strong in the face of adversity.
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You can hear the locally-hosted WPSU Folk Show every Saturday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. and Sunday nights from 10 to midnight on WPSU-FM.
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President Trump, seeking to reshape the voting map, prompted a rare wave of mid-decade redistricting that gave Republicans a boost for holding the House. But the voters will determine if it works. -
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A new analysis finds that the average renter household now needs 16 years to save for a down payment and closing costs. Rising rents and other costs have consumed a growing share of household budgets. -
What can you learn from dreams and how can you remember them and steer them to the topics you wish to dream about. Allison Aubrey and A Martinez discuss the resurgance in dream research and how dreams are a tool for self-discovery.
The Local Groove, Saturdays at 9 p.m. on WPSU, features music written and recorded by musicians right here in central and northern Pennsylvania.
During Cartober, when you donate your scary old car, truck, motorcycle, RV, or boat to WPSU, it will have a wonderful afterlife supporting public radio (no bones about it). We'll even pick it up! So go ahead, ghost that old car. Click below for details.