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...
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...
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.,...
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...
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 Thursday to...
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 seven dollars and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 sniper.
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...
STROUDSBURG, Pa. — A Chinese American teenager who was fatally shot by Pennsylvania State Police last year had his hands in the air when troopers opened fire, new videos reveal, prompting calls for an independent investigation. The videos, recorded by the State...
An appellate court leveled sharp questions Wednesday in the opening round of a closely watched court case over whether Republicans in the state Senate have the power to subpoena sensitive voter information as part of a partisan inquiry into the 2020 election. A...
HARRISBURG — An appellate court leveled sharp questions Wednesday in the opening round of a closely watched court case over whether Republicans in the state Senate have the power to subpoena sensitive voter information as part of a partisan inquiry into the 2020...
HARRISBURG — An appellate court leveled sharp questions Wednesday in the opening round of a closely watched court case over whether Republicans in the state Senate have the power to subpoena sensitive voter information as part of a partisan inquiry into the 2020...
An appellate court leveled sharp questions Wednesday in the opening round of a closely watched court case over whether Republicans in the state Senate have the power to subpoena sensitive voter information as part of a partisan inquiry into the 2020 election. A...
PHILADELPHIA, PA — As a record-breaking year for violence heads to a close, Senator Sharif Street joined Sen. Vincent Hughes and Senator Haywood to call for Pennsylvania to invest more of a $7 billion surplus in local efforts to stop the surge. Leaders of local...
A revised version of a bill submitted by the Republican Party requesting medical facilities to provide medical facilities for the disposal of the body after the death of the fetal from the Senate Committee on Tuesday. Republican Frank Ryan, a member of Parliament,...
An amended version of a Republican-penned bill requiring medical facilities to provide for the disposition of remains after a fetal death advanced out of a Senate committee Tuesday. State Rep. Frank Ryan, R-Lebanon, drafted the legislation after his wife had a midterm...
Acting Pennsylvania Health Secretary Alison Beam will resign at the end of the month, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday, after a year of rapidly changing conditions marked by the coronavirus vaccine rollout, the state’s reopening, the emergence of the delta variant, the...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania State Police troopers who kill or injure someone should not be investigated by their own agency, and an independent prosecutor should review the case, according to a recommendation approved Friday by a state oversight panel. The proposed...
ABINGTON, PA — Holy Redeemer Health System has received a $2 million state grant to aid with an expansion of its cancer center. The money was given out through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, which is a program administered through the Office of the...