April 13, 2021
(The Center Square) – Representatives of Pennsylvania’s four state-related universities told lawmakers recently that when it comes to addressing racial disparities within their faculty, they’d prefer to continue working on changing from within rather than...
April 12, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – Department of Human Services (DHS) Secretary Teresa Miller today joined Sen. Pat Browne, Sen. Art Haywood, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Delaware County Councilman Kevin Madden to encourage individuals and families in southeast Pennsylvania...
April 12, 2021
Every Pennsylvanian over sixteen will be eligible to make a vaccine appointment on Tuesday, April 13th. The Governor’s Office making the announcement Monday along with the Department of Health and Governor’s COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force. The move comes on the day...
April 12, 2021
HARRISBURG — The Wolf administration on Monday said that starting Tuesday, all Pennsylvania adults may schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments, and the state has set a goal of getting 80% of eligible adults vaccinated. Previously, the state’s timetable set April 19 for...
April 6, 2021
Geisinger awaits lab results to confirm the conclusion of its director of infectious diseases: That a more contagious variant of COVID-19 reached the Valley. In data last updated April 1, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 431 cases in...
April 1, 2021
State Sens. Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) and Dan Laughlin (R-Erie) introduced legislation Monday to promote economic development and generate jobs while supporting alternative energy production and use in Pennsylvania. The proposed legislation would...
March 31, 2021
The first round in the ongoing lawsuit challenging the Delaware River Basin Commission’s authority to ban fracking in its jurisdictional waters has gone to the State Democratic Caucus. A knockout blow could be landing as soon as April. In this file photo made...
March 31, 2021
Every adult in Pennsylvania will soon qualify for a COVID-19 vaccine starting in April. The announcement came during a State Department of Health press briefing this morning. Starting today, grocery store workers, agricultural workers and law enforcement will be...
March 31, 2021
As the commonwealth expands to Phase 1B, many people who work as first responders and food service employees are black and brown people. Officials say with that sector now eligible for vaccinations, it will have a positive impact on racial equity. Pennsylvania is...
March 31, 2021
WEST CHESTER — Pennsylvania officials announced Wednesday the state is accelerating vaccine strategy to target industry workers, just as the number of those testing positive for coronavirus continues to climb in Chester County. Last week, 603 people tested positive...
March 31, 2021
Pennsylvania’s Department of Health has announced it’s scrapping a much-despised plan to establish two mass PEMA sites to handle vaccination in the populous counties around Philadelphia. The news came as the Health Department unveiled plans Wednesday to expand vaccine...
March 31, 2021
Pennsylvania will soon open the vaccine floodgates. By April 19, all Pennsylvanian adults ages 16 and older will be eligible to be vaccinated against the virus that has been a scourge on society for more than a year, the Department of Health announced Wednesday....
March 31, 2021
As Pennsylvania looks to expand vaccine eligibility in April, two controversial state-run mass vaccination sites that were to cover Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties have been cancelled. Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam confirmed to reporters...
March 31, 2021
HARRISBURG — All adults will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccines by April 19 and front-line workers — including police and firefighters, grocery workers and those in food production — became immediately eligible for the vaccines, under an updated...
March 29, 2021
March 26, 2021
The minimum wage in Pennsylvania is stuck at $7.25/hr. Democrats and republicans rallied to raise the wage to $9.50/hr in the senate in 2019. that bill went nowhere when it got to the house and it died. That as the highest paid state legislature in the United States...
March 26, 2021
State Senator Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) and State Senator Dan Laughlin (R-Erie) introduced the legislation today. “Renewable energy creates jobs, saves farmers, and can help us to save the planet,” Haywood said. “We believe strongly that this proposal...
March 26, 2021
At the request of state Senators Vincent Hughes (D- Philadelphia), Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia), and Nikil Saval (D-Philadelphia), the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Policy Committee will hold a virtual public hearing on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic...
March 24, 2021
Here are the highlights to the March’s Springfield Township Board of Commissioner Workshop and Business meetings held on March 8 and 10, respectively. Among other things, the Board also discussed the Rotary Club’s plans for an Oktoberfest and a Winter Festival and...
March 24, 2021
More than a week after a gunman in Atlanta killed eight people, six of them Asian-American women, Democrats in the state House and Senate rallied Wednesday in support of Pennsylvania’s Asian-American residents, and called for action on a long-sought package of...
