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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.

February 6, 2012 | 6:45 PM

Governor Corbett’s famous “no new taxes” pledge may be kaput by week’s end, according to Capitolwire:

HARRISBURG (Feb. 6) – Americans for Tax Reform, who created the no-net-tax-hike pledge Gov. Tom Corbett signed in the 2010 campaign, says the Marcellus Shale fee deal struck by Corbett and legislative leaders is a pledge-breaking tax.
“In short and as with previous iterations [of shale fee and tax proposals], ATR opposes this unnecessary tax increase and, on behalf of our members in the commonwealth, urges legislators to vote no should it come up for a vote this evening,” Patrick Gleason, head of ATR’s Pennsylvania operation, wrote in an email.
Corbett and nearly three-dozen state lawmakers signed the pledge that they would not raise net taxes in the state.