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WPSU is beginning a new chapter, and you are at the heart of our future! WPSU's Fall Member Drive starts on Monday, October 12 with a goal of contributions from 700 members during the 6-day drive. Click below to make your gift and thank you!
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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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.
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.
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Today's poem is set at Raccoon Creek, a 7,752-acre, Pennsylvania State Park in Beaver County. -
An archive recording of the WPSU Jazz Show as broadcast on Friday, October 9, 2026, hosted by Greg Petersen. -
Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding would like to see the land at the now-closed State Correctional Institution at Rockview stay in agriculture.
Poetry Moment's sixth season begins Monday, September 21! Every Monday, poet Marjorie Maddox will read a poem from a contemporary Pennsylvania poet. Listen Monday mornings at 7:45 and Monday afternoons at 4:44 on WPSU.
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Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons. In her new novel, Music Against the Night, she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. -
Prices can get sticky. That helps explain why recessions hurt so much — and what policymakers can do about them. -
Nearly 200 independent candidates in more than 100 congressional races are trying to prove there's an alternative to the two party system — even though the chance of winning is very low. -
Voters in Massachusetts will decide whether to require cities and towns to allow smaller homes on smaller lots. A growing number of states are doing the same to help ease a housing shortage.
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Find out what's happening in Central & Northern PA on WPSU's Community Calendar! Submit your nonprofit group's event at least 2 weeks in advance, and you might hear it announced on WPSU-FM.