May 1, 2023
(WHTM) — Senator Arthur Haywood had one goal when he met with local leaders at Monday’s roundtable on the state of Black Pennsylvania.
June 13, 2022
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A group of Democratic lawmakers will hold a press conference in Harrisburg Monday to call for raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $12 per hour, with a pathway to $15 per hour. Pennsylvania currently follows the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per...
June 10, 2022
Last weekend, there in the pages of The New York Times, was an advertisement for the good ol’ Philly Shrug, courtesy of our mayor. In the aftermath of the South Street mass shooting, Jim Kenney — out of town for a U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting — seemed neither...
February 7, 2022
There were 499 homicides in Philadelphia in 2020. That grim number was surpassed in 2021 when 562 were murdered in the city. We are only a month into 2022, and the City of Philadelphia has reported another 44 murders. However, in Boston, Dallas, Jacksonville, Fla.,...
February 3, 2022
State Sen. Art Haywood is asking for Mayor Jim Kenney to take immediate steps to address the continued acts of violent crime plaguing Philadelphia. The senator that serves the 4th Senatorial District of Philadelphia and Montgomery counties said he wants immediate...
January 27, 2022
Gov. Tom Wolf and Democratic leadership want workers in Pennsylvania to have a bigger slice of the pie. That was Wolf’s message, when he, House Democratic Leader Joanna McClinton and State Sen. Art Haywood stopped at &Pizza in Willow Grove Park mall on...
January 27, 2022
ABINGTON, PA — Gov. Tom Wolf made a stop in Montgomery County Thursday to call for a raise in the state’s minimum wage, saying that it is disheartening that Pennsylvania hasn’t raised its minimum wage in 15 years. “You cannot work a full-time job at...
January 27, 2022
Calling Pennsylvania’s embarrassingly low minimum wage disrespectful to workers and families, Governor Tom Wolf joined legislators, workers and a Montgomery County business today to call on the General Assembly to finally raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour...
January 24, 2022
PHILADELPHIA, PA – On Friday, State Senator Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) called on Mayor Jim Kenney (D-Philadelphia) to take six immediate actions to stop gun violence in Philadelphia and save lives. In an email sent to Mayor Kenney, Senator Haywood stated...
January 22, 2022
Calling Pennsylvania’s embarrassingly low minimum wage disrespectful to workers and families, Governor Tom Wolf joined legislators, workers and a Montgomery County business today to call on the General Assembly to finally raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour with a...
January 21, 2022
On Thursday, Jan. 20 in Philadelphia’s Mill Creek neighborhood, Gov. Tom Wolf, along with Sen. Vincent Hughes and other lawmakers, announced a more than $15 million increase in state funding to support gun violence prevention efforts. After working with Hughes, the...
January 20, 2022
(The Center Square) – The Pennsylvania Senate has passed legislation to prohibit state and local governments from using taxpayer money to pay ransoms to hackers. Senate Bill 726, sponsored by Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill, R-York, defines ransomware and outlaws the act...
January 12, 2022
Districts 43 (Costa) and 45 (Brewster), Allegheny County, in western Pennsylvania have overlapping intrusions. Both have terms that expire in 2024. Costa is on the Appropriation Committee and was appointed to serve on the Redistricting Committee. It looks like there...
January 6, 2022
WASHINGTON — As they marked the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, fueled in large part by lies about the last presidential election in Pennsylvania, local Democrats warned Thursday that the threats to democracy seen so vividly that day...
January 5, 2022
A Philadelphia law firm via a civil lawsuit filed against two Jonestown-based state police troopers has claimed that a video obtained by the law firm shows that a 2020 fatal shooting in Jackson Township involving those troopers was not justified. In its second amended...
January 3, 2022
A Jonestown-based Pennsylvania State Police officer pulled the trigger in four police-related shootings – including two in Lebanon County over the past 19 months – according to an investigative report published Thursday by the New York Times. In the report, the Times...
December 30, 2021
HARRISBURG — On Dec. 30, 2020, Fe Hall dropped her son Christian off at his job at a local grocery store, thinking she would see him that afternoon. Instead, Christian left work, walked to the ledge on a nearby overpass close to Stroudsburg in northeastern...
December 30, 2021
One year ago, on Dec. 30, 2020, Fe Hall dropped her son Christian off at his job at a local grocery store, thinking she would see him that afternoon. Instead, Christian left work, walked to the ledge on a nearby overpass close to Stroudsburg and called 911 about a...
December 29, 2021
HARRISBURG — In 2016, after eight hours of a violent standoff with a man in Beaver County, the Pennsylvania State Police consulted with the local district attorney as to whether troopers could kill the suspect. The man was subsequently shot three times by a...
December 27, 2021
With more than two-dozen states set to hike their minimum wage in 2022, the administration of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf is urging the Republican-controlled General Assembly to follow suit when it returns to session in January. “Pennsylvania’s food service, retail and...
