March 24, 2021
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Wednesday, Pennsylvania state lawmakers took a stance against hate. They gathered at the Capitol Complex in Harrisburg to stand in solidarity with the Asian-American Pacific Islander community and other vulnerable groups. Their show of support comes...
March 23, 2021
State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) today applauded Governor Wolf for the Commonwealth’s commitment to solar energy and called on the General Assembly to take up legislation to modernize the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act (AEPS). “The Governor’s...
March 21, 2021
Harrisburg, Pa. – Senate Democrats on Friday introduced a resolution to form a task force on law enforcement response to large-scale civil rights demonstrations. Senate Res. 52 establishes a 20-member task force to identify best practices for law enforcement to...
March 18, 2021
The Pennsylvania Department of Health accused Southeastern county leaders of “wasting precious time” with their request that the state distribute coronavirus vaccine doses to county-run clinics rather than sending them to a single mass vaccination site for the entire...
March 13, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered plenty of party-based antagonism in state government, but a bipartisan Vaccine Task Force is working together amicably, officials said. “Coming into the task force, I had no clue,” said Rep. Tim O’Neal, R-Washington. “I didn’t know...
March 13, 2021
Pennsylvania residents who are currently eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine will get their appointments scheduled by the end of March, Gov. Tom Wolf and members of the state’ COVID-19 task force said Friday, as they also announced targeted initiatives to vaccinate such...
March 12, 2021
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Gov. Tom Wolf announced a significant expansion of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 vaccination effort on Friday. Wolf said he’s confident that the commonwealth will meet President Joe Biden’s directive to make everyone vaccine-eligible by May 1. Wolf says...
March 12, 2021
JESSICA KARTALIJA: Good afternoon, everyone. I’m Jessica Kartalija. Yuki is off today. Governor Tom Wolf today announced a significant expansion of Pennsylvania’s vaccination effort. He says he is confident the state will meet President Joe Biden’s...
March 12, 2021
Harrisburg, PA — Setting the bar high. Governor Tom Wolf and the COVID-19 Task Force are laying out goals to vastly expand who will get the vaccine and by what timeline. By the end of the month, all of Phase 1A and more first responders will have access to the...
March 10, 2021
In January 2015, Alex Rojas Garcia, a student at Temple University, was shot 15 times and left for dead on a cold and lonely street in Philadelphia. In the six years since, his mother, Aleida Garcia, has taken her tragedy and turned it into fuel for a crusade to fight...
March 6, 2021
Where are the answers? Where is the fix? Where is the urgency? These are COVID-19 vaccine questions from hundreds of residents across suburban Philadelphia who clogged my email inbox and voicemail with gripes over the last week. These also are questions consuming...
March 5, 2021
As part of the priority to safely and quickly get more students back in the classroom, Gov. Tom Wolf and the COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force on March 3 announced that Pennsylvania will use the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) single-dose COVID-19 vaccine for PreK-12...
March 5, 2021
Elected officials, community organizations and health care providers spoke out about the need for the COVID-19 vaccine in Black and brown communities at a news conference at a West Oak Lane Rite Aid on Friday. More than a dozen officials said Black people should not...
February 26, 2021
In the midst of a gun violence crisis and surging homicides overwhelming Black Philadelphians, elected officials and police brass say now is the time for the Republican-controlled state Legislature to strike down the state’s “pre-emption” law that prohibits local...
February 24, 2021
Pennsylvania’s new COVID-19 vaccine task force has been meeting for less than two weeks, but legislative members say the group is already making strides to improve the state’s struggling vaccination program. Republican state Sen. Ryan Aument of Lancaster,...
February 23, 2021
Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday that Pennsylvania may launch a centralized tool to help residents sign up to receive COVID-19 immunizations, a move that lawmakers are increasingly touting as an alternative to the current patchwork of registration systems run by the state’s...
February 19, 2021
Pennsylvania’s bipartisan COVID-19 task force was only a few days past its first meeting when it was told of the vaccine distribution mistake that is now expected to cause a ripple effect across the state. Pennsylvania’s Department of Health announced...
February 18, 2021
A great many people in Northwest Philadelphia and the adjacent suburbs were undoubtedly delighted over the Biden/Harris victory in Pennsylvania in November, but I doubt if anyone was more exhilarated than Andrea Koplove. That’s because Koplove, 45, a Chestnut...
February 17, 2021
Harrisburg, PA — Pennsylvania’s Health Department is scrambling after 200,000 second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses were misallocated. The state says a communication breakdown is to blame, along with what they’re calling the perfect storm.
February 17, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the newly formed joint task force with the legislature today reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring that Pennsylvanians will have access to second doses of COVID-19 vaccine within the CDC-recommended...
