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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

October 5, 2011 | 12:55 PM

Scott Detrow / StateImpact Pennsylvania

Governor Corbett tours a carpentry training center in Pittsburgh

Yesterday afternoon, I discussed Governor Corbett’s impact fee on WITF’s All Things Considered.
The interview focused on two aspects: lawmakers’ opposition to Corbett’s county-level plan, and whether or not the levy can be considered a tax increase.
You can listen to the interview here:

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