Anne Danahy
ReporterAnne Danahy has been a reporter at WPSU since fall 2017. Before crossing over to radio, she was a reporter for more than 11 years at the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where she covered everything from school board races to the impact of natural gas development on communities.
She earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and a master's degree in media studies from Penn State.
Before joining WPSU, she worked as a writer and editor at Penn State's Office of Strategic Communications and, before that, at the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
She also hosts a Q&A program for C-NET, Centre County's government and education access station. She is married with cats.
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Opponents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rallied against the agency Friday in the State College area, in the same week that ICE reportedly arrested immigrants on their way to work in the area. -
Pennsylvania is seven weeks into the fiscal year, and lawmakers have failed to pass a state budget. That means schools, service providers and agencies across the state are in financial limbo, including the Centre Area Transportation Authority or CATA. -
The importance of supporting Pennsylvania businesses, the potential for rising costs to dampen spending by consumers on extras and the need for migrant labor in the agriculture industry were a few of the ideas the minds of Pennsylvania farmers and entrepreneurs at the “agriculture summit” U.S. Representative Glenn "GT" Thompson held at the Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology in Centre County. -
U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, who hosted his annual agricultural summit in Centre County Monday, said the need for temporary farm workers is one of the things he's working on as chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture. -
A 32-year-old Chinese man died while in ICE custody in Clearfield County, prompting immigrants’ rights activists to renew their calls for the facility where he was being held to be shut down. -
As smoke from the Canadian wildfires pushes into parts of Pennsylvania, increasing the particulate matter and compromising the air quality, a cardiologist recommends following common sense steps to stay safe. -
Penn State's fiscal year started July 1, and the university plans to notify employees about pay raises in the next few weeks, according to a spokesman. -
Penn State plans to buy the former fraternity house where hazing led to the death of Timothy Piazza in 2017, after reaching a $7.3 million agreement with the property owner. -
Cleanup work at the Jackson Ceramix Superfund site, in Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, is underway, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overseeing a multistep process to address contamination at the former dish ware factory site. -
Roaring Spring Paper Products in Blair County has seen an upswing in demand for its Blue Books, paper booklets used for taking tests. One possible reason? Outsmarting A.I.
