Sydney Roach
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WPSU
Geisinger and Risant Health are asking the Pennsylvania Insurance Department to lower the amount of money they have to keep in reserves, which could give the health system access to another $100 million.
Peter Hall
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star
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.
Here is a list of special programs for Earth Day and Poetry Month on WPSU-FM.
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, beginning September 15.
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Poetry Moment presents 'Against Metaphor' by Eric Potter -
Democracy Works host Chris Beem talks with University of Iowa political scientist Juliana Pacheco about how the politicization of health issues is impacting physicians across the country. -
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An archive recording of the WPSU Jazz show as broadcast on Friday, April 17, 2026, hosted by Frank Mueller. -
State law already prohibits poll workers from betting on elections, but prediction markets argue they are not betting operations.
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Here's a message for you from Ken Burns, about the importance of acting now, and supporting WPSU.
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The Onion says it has a new deal to take over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars media company. If approved, the satirical news website could turn Infowars into a parody of itself. -
The 65-year-old Cook will turn over CEO duties to Apple's head of hardware products, John Ternus, in September. Cook will remain with the company as executive chairman. -
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who was under internal investigation, is leaving her position. She becomes the third cabinet departure of President Trump's second term. -
The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at U.S. libraries — the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color. -
President Trump said a U.S. delegation will head to Pakistan to resume talks to end the war with Iran, but Tehran expressed reluctance after the U.S. seized one of its cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz. -
"We women are the land guardians and keepers," says Theonila Roka Matbob of Papua New Guinea, recognized for her efforts to repair the environmental and social harms caused by a copper and gold mine.
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