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Gov. Tom Wolf. (Spotlight PA)
Health

Wolf offers clarification on his new plan to reopen Pa.

He noted, even when industries — and eventually counties — get the go-ahead to go back to work, that doesn’t mean daily life should go back to normal right away.

6 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, left, visits an alternate care facility at East Orange Hospital in East Orange, N.J., amid the coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. (Michael Karas/The Record via AP, Pool)
Politics & Policy

Coronavirus update: Murphy furious at federal aid rules, saliva test a ‘game changer’

Also Thursday, Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, again lashed out at federal leaders over cash assistance for states.

6 years ago

Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller tests positive for COVID-19

Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller shared Thursday that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

6 years ago

Nurses with ChristianaCare test people for the coronavirus in downtown Wilmington on March 13, 2020. (Butch Comegys for WHYY)
Health

Coronavirus update: Plasma treatments start as Delaware hits 92 deaths

Delaware added 108 new cases of the coronavirus and three more deaths as ChristianaCare starts plasma treatments from a recovered patient.

6 years ago

On Monday, four Republicans spoke on the steps of the Capitol to an angry crowd of hundreds of people protesting Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home order.
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Some GOP lawmakers are prepping a nuclear option to revoke Wolf’s emergency powers. But it probably won’t work.

A group of Republican lawmakers might fire up Pennsylvanians who want to see the state reopen, but the nuclear option is practically impossible to pull off.

6 years ago

U.S. Coast Guard Mid-Atlantic released these surveillance images of a missing man who rowed a boat into the Toms River on Tuesday. (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard Mid-Atlantic)
Down the Shore
Community

Coast Guard suspends search for Ocean County man last spotted in rowboat

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a man who went missing after taking his rowboat into a southern New Jersey waterway before strong storms swept through the area.

6 years ago

Pendle Hill Quaker Fellowship
Community

In the age of social distancing, Quakers have quickly adapted to online worship

In the last month, many things once deemed impossible have suddenly become imaginable. That’s certainly true for the Religious Society of Friends.

6 years ago

Bootsie Barns will be honored by the Clef Club. (Courtesy of The Philadelphia Tribune)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Bootsie Barnes, legendary Philadelphia jazz saxophonist, dies at 82

An icon in the Philly jazz scene, he grew up in West Philly, making a name for himself in the 1950's playing alongside the likes of legendary musicians such as Lee Morgan.

6 years ago

Betsy James Wyeth
Community

Betsy Wyeth, widow and muse of Andrew Wyeth, dies at 98

Betsy James Wyeth, the widow, business manager and muse of painter Andrew Wyeth, has died at age 98.

6 years ago

A masked worker at this state WIN job center in Pearl, Miss., holds an unemployment benefit application form as she waits for a client, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Money

26 million have sought U.S. jobless aid since virus hit

About one in six American workers have now lost their jobs since mid-March, by far the worst string of layoffs on record.

6 years ago

Medical workers wait for cars to pull up to the swabbing tent at the city's coronavirus testing site next to Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia on Friday, March 20, 2020. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Health

Contact tracing for COVID-19 starts on a small scale in Philly

The practice is considered key to reopening society. Some volunteers at the University of Pennsylvania have begun the laborious process.

6 years ago

Curtis Alexander, owner of South Philadelphia plant nursery Urban Jungle, said despite having a waiver to operate through the pandemic, the store is doing about 10% of their usual business. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Inside the tug-of-war over Pennsylvania’s strict business closure list

Pennsylvania has closed businesses more aggressively than many nearby states. Democrats mostly agree with the approach, Republicans don’t.

6 years ago

Dr. Dan Kulp, associate professor in Wistar’s Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, works with a member of his lab.
Health

‘Work hard and quick, but be careful’: Rushing to create a coronavirus vaccine

Despite the challenges, there are many candidates to be the vaccine that knocks out the coronavirus. But are they all equally promising?

6 years ago

A pedestrian crosses Roosevelt Boulevard at Rising Sun Avenue.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Pedestrian deaths on the rise in Philadelphia

2020 is shaping up to be a dangerous year for people walking near moving traffic with city crash data showing a startling 88% spike in pedestrian deaths.

6 years ago

Longwood Gardens
Things To Do
Community
April 23 - 29, 2020

Baseball’s greatest games, virtual circus, ballet online, and Longwood at home in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

As we enter another week of self-isolation and social distancing, here's our latest Things To Do in the Philadelphia region, online edition.

6 years ago

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