Katie Meyer | WHYY
Katie Meyer is WHYY’s political reporter. She covers politics, policy, power, and elections at every level of government, with the goal of showing how it all affects people’s lives.
Before coming to Philadelphia, she covered state politics as Harrisburg bureau chief for WITF, and hosted the station’s politics podcast. She got her start in public radio in the Bronx, at Fordham University station WFUV. She’s from upstate New York.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding this week whether to wade into a complicated legal battle over Pennsylvania’s new, court-selected congressional map. The case could have massive implications for election laws around the country. WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports.
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Every decade, an earthquake hits the Pennsylvania’s legislature in the form of redistricting. This year the commonwealth got a new map that makes Democrats more competitive than they’ve been in at least two decades, but also makes districts less likely to swing between parties.
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There’s a big question at the heart of Mehmet Oz’s campaign to be the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania’s open US Senate seat. Can a rich guy with a famous TV show win over the commonwealth’s voters?
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It’s now up to the Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court to pick a new congressional map. WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports the task that fell to them after the Republican-controlled legislature and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf deadlocked.
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A public-private partnership is bringing new pregnancy care services to one of Pennsylvania’s state prisons for a test run. WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports a bipartisan group of lawmakers is hoping to enshrine similar programs and funding into state law — and to do it before Governor Tom Wolf leaves office.
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A conservative Commonwealth Court judge charged with recommending a new Pennsylvania congressional map has picked a plan that Republican state lawmakers drew. WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports Democratic Governor Tom Wolf already vetoed it.
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Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is appointing a conservative Commonwealth Court judge to pick the commonwealth’s new congressional map. WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports, the courts are picking a map because the legislature and governor deadlocked.
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New campaign finance reports for Pennsylvania’s governor and U.S. Senate races are now public. WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports the commonwealth appears to be well on its way to its most expensive statewide elections ever.
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Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court handed down an opinion Friday declaring a major election law unconstitutional. WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports, the 2019 law dramatically expanded mail voting ahead of the 2020 election — but in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s loss, it became a target of GOP vitriol.
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Pennsylvania’s state lawmakers are launching a final attempt to pass a new congressional map. WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports if they don’t succeed soon, the commonwealth’s appellate courts will likely deem them deadlocked and take over the process.