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The capital dome is seen at the New Jersey Statehouse. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

N.J. lawmakers push through $11.5 billion tax break overhaul, to the chagrin of advocates

Full floor votes are set in the Senate and Assembly Monday – less than a week after the bill was introduced and 1 ½ years since the last programs elapsed.

6 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., signs a form next to Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician Congress of the United States after she received a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
Politics & Policy

House passes bill to avert government shutdown; Senate next

The House passed the temporary funding bill by a 320-60 vote as frustrated lawmakers headed for a weekend session.

6 years ago

A woman stands near signs at University Hospital's COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark
Health

N.J. plans for mass vaccinations

At a weekly COVID-19 press briefing, Gov. Phil Murphy announced six forthcoming vaccine “mega-sites.”

6 years ago

An employee Bayhealth Hospital in Dover gives a coronavirus vaccination. (Bayhealth Hospital)
Health

Delaware launches vaccination hotline, but available doses are still scarce

Residents with questions or concerns about the virus can now get answers directly from the Division of Public Health.

6 years ago

President-elect Joe Biden announces former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for transportation secretary during a news conference at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP)
Politics & Policy

Bidens to get first vaccine dose on Monday

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will receive their doses the week after next.

6 years ago

NJ Transit
Urban Planning

NJ Transit completes installation of automatic braking system on rail lines

Riders faced intermittent delays over the past three years as the Murphy administration, contractors, and federal officials raced to meet the 2020 deadline.

6 years ago

A health care worker wears personal protective equipment as she speaks with a patient at a mobile testing location
Health

Bucks County struggles to enforce new Pa. COVID-19 guidelines

Officials in Bucks County say they’re struggling to enforce new state COVID-19 guidelines as some businesses continue to flout the new restrictions.

6 years ago

President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden joined by Ashley Biden and her husband Howard Krein walk from St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Today is the anniversary of Neilia and Naomi Biden's death. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Politics & Policy

Biden marks anniversary of wife, daughter’s death at Delaware church

On the 48th anniversary of the tragic accident that killed his wife and infant daughter, President-elect Joe Biden visited the Wilmington-area church where they are buried.

6 years ago

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks past reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Money

Shutdown deadline looms over COVID-19 relief talks

Government funding lapses at midnight Friday and a partial, low-impact shutdown would ensue if Congress fails to pass a stopgap spending bill before then.

6 years ago

Exterior of the Supreme Court
Courts & Law

High court rules challenge to Trump census plan is premature

The three liberal justices dissented, saying the effort to exclude people in the country from the population for divvying up House seats is unlawful.

6 years ago

Bob Schwartz, the director of marketing of the Trapp Family Lodge poses outside the lodge on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Stowe, Vt. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
Community

Winter travel raises more fears of viral spread

In the U.S., AAA predicts that about 85 million people will travel between Dec. 23 and Jan. 3, most of them by car.

6 years ago

Vice President Mike Pence receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Health

Pence, top congressional leaders get COVID-19 vaccines

In remarks after his shot, Pence called the speed with which the vaccine was developed "a medical miracle.”

6 years ago

(Tim Tai/ Philadelphia Inquirer)
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

An incarcerated man died of the coronavirus, but Pa. corrections never told his family

State corrections officials say they are following the law in protecting medical information, but family and advocates contend they could do more when prisoners get sick.

6 years ago

Composer Randy Gibson walking the trails of Tacony Creek Park
Arts & Entertainment

Philly composer writes a series of jazz and blues songs inspired by Tacony Creek

Randy Gibson’s seven-song Tacony Creek Suite responds to George Floyd, the coronavirus pandemic and its titular water source.

6 years ago

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Fresh crayons and markers await preschool students.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa.’s free pre-K program provides a meaningful math and language boost, says new study

Those results were consistent across the state, in urban and rural areas alike. And they remained evident in the second half of kindergarten.

6 years ago

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