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Skate instructor Sultana Afifiah helps a new skater at Laura Sims Skatehouse in Philadelphia. The city’s rinks are reopening with COVID restrictions in February. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY
Community

Philly public ice rinks will open with COVID-19 safety precautions

Rinks will host public skate hours on evenings and weekends to offer residents safe, affordable family fun.

5 years ago

State Sen. Tizzy Lockman heads the Redding Consortium looking at ways to improve upstate schools. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education

‘We need help’: Task force demands better funding for some of Del. youngest students

The Redding Consortium for Educational Equity is out with a list of priorities members say will help improve outcomes for students in high-poverty schools.

5 years ago

A young student attends virtual school from his home
Education

Philly’s youngest students are suffering the most academically, new data shows

The data compares test scores from before the pandemic to test scores from early fall. And it paints a troubling picture for kids in early grades.

5 years ago

A couple helps a child on a snow covered embankment at Lorimer Park in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Weather

Montgomery County declares Code Blue; dangerous temperatures forecast for weekend

The Code Blue declaration has been issued for Montgomery County beginning Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, at 9 p.m. and ending on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, at 9 a.m.

5 years ago

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman gavels in a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate before Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year, Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Sitting on $1.4 million in campaign cash, Fetterman takes another step toward U.S. Senate

The Pa. lieutenant governor and his staff say the filing was simply procedural: He’d raised too much money to continue operating under his existing exploratory committee.

5 years ago

coronavirus vaccine
Health

Pa. coronavirus update: More vaccines on the way, says state health official

Some counties received less vaccine, but Mauldin says state officials have to distribute equitably.

5 years ago

Jerry Jordan has headed the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers since 2007. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education

Stay home on Monday, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers urges its members

The union continues to maintain school district buildings are unsafe for occupancy given COVID-19 concerns. A mediator in the matter was named Friday.

5 years ago

Pedestrians walk in Maxwell Place Park in view of midtown Mahattan Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Hoboken, N.J. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Health

N.J. coronavirus update: Govs. Murphy, Cuomo call for coronavirus aid based on state’s needs

New Jersey and New York were among the first states to report coronavirus cases in the spring when the pandemic surged in the Northeast.

5 years ago

Pro-Trump insurrectionists storm the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
Courts & Law

Feds arrest, charge Pa. woman in pink hat during Capitol attack

Rachel Powell, 40, a mother of eight children, stopped short of confirming to The New Yorker magazine this week that she had bashed in a window.

5 years ago

Sanjay Bhatnagar (right) claims that he was fired unjustly by the county attorney with County Executive Matt Meyer's blessing. (New Castle County/Sanjay Bhatnagaar)
Courts & Law

Ex-attorney for New Castle County alleges racial, religious and gender bias in firing

Sanjay Bhatnagar’s federal suit also claims he didn’t receive due process but “white-skinned Christian women’’ on the county legal team got slack.

5 years ago

A pedestrian walks by the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, June 28, 2019.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania lawmakers advance $912M pandemic relief bill

The money will go to aid hospitality-related businesses hit hard by the coronavirus, private schools and people struggling to pay rent or utility bills.

5 years ago

In this Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, photo, a bartender talks to a customer at the Gotham Bar and Grill in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Money

US employers add just 49K jobs as unemployment falls to 6.3%

Friday's figures reflect a faltering job market, slowed by a pandemic that is still causing consumers to avoid traveling, shopping and dining out.

5 years ago

(Fred Adams for Spotlight PA)
Health
Spotlight PA

In race for COVID-19 vaccinations, older residents in rural Pa. face tough obstacles

Despite being among the most at risk, some lack transportation, access to chain pharmacies, and internet connections to get vaccine appointments.

5 years ago

A building is seen from the sidewalk on a cloudy day.
Community

Upper Darby and the township workers union are at odds over a no-layoff clause

The union represents the township’s sanitation workers and animal control, parking enforcement, and other non-first responder uniformed employees.

5 years ago

A life-size hologram tells the story of 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy Nefrina in the Ancient Civilizations Gallery at the Reading Public Museum
Arts & Entertainment

Reading Public Museum brings its mummy back to life, as a hologram

The Reading Public Museum knows what the Ancient Egyptian woman named Nefrina looked like in 300 B.C., so it recreated her as a hologram.

5 years ago

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