June 21, 2021
Days after Juneteenth became an official federal holiday, Delaware County honored and celebrated the occasion with events and commemorations throughout the area. The day recognizes June 19, 1865, the date when Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger proclaimed and enforced...
June 8, 2021
Calling for “solidarity, not solitary,” dozens of people — including organizers from prisoners’ rights groups, survivors of solitary confinement and state legislators — rallied outside the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia June 1. They called for passage of...
May 14, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) and several local leaders today discussed how flexible disaster emergency declarations allow emergency officials to meet the needs of communities before, during and after an...
May 11, 2021
(Pittsburgh) — The state Senate’s communications and technology committee will hold a hearing on a COVID-19 contact tracing data breach Tuesday morning, but the state Department of Health will not provide testimony. Department director of communications Barry...
May 11, 2021
Pennsylvania’s Capitol Hunger Garden is open for business. Lawmakers, along with hunger awareness advocated, gathered at a freshly tilled 1,000-square-foot plot of ground next to the state Capitol on Tuesday to open growing season by planting a few...
May 11, 2021
Pennsylvania Health Department officials backed out of an appearance Tuesday before a State Senate concerning an alleged data breach involving a COVID-19 contact-tracing contractor. That breach allegedly exposed personal information of thousands of people to the...
