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Pennsylvania State University. (Tim Tai/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Education
Spotlight PA

Penn State reverses course, plans to provide modified COVID-19 agreement for students

The original agreement required students to “assume any and all risk” of COVID-19, which some said amounted to a liability waiver.

6 years ago

(Spotlight PA)
Health
Spotlight PA

Inside some Pennsylvania rehabs, ‘it’s like COVID doesn’t exist’

When treatment facilities ignore coronavirus protocols, patients are forced to choose between recovery and safety.

6 years ago

Penn State's Old Main administrative building. (Min Xian/WPSU)
Education
Spotlight PA

Students at Penn State forced to sign COVID-19 liability waiver to participate in fall semester

“I assume any and all risk of exposure to COVID-19 that may result from attending Penn State, or participating in Penn State activities,” the compact says.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

‘Making a souffle on a BBQ grill’: Pa. scrambles after Trump goes solo on unemployment relief

The Trump administration’s attempt to sidestep Congress has created a coronavirus relief package that states may not be able to launch for weeks, or even months.

6 years ago

Listen 2:00
Bentonite clay spills into Marsh Creek Lake. (Courtesy of Chris DiGiuilo)
Science

Mariner East pipeline construction spills up to 10,000 gallons of drilling mud into Chesco stream and lake

The spill is one of more than 100 across the length of the pipeline.

6 years ago

Listen 1:40
Election poll monitor
Politics & Policy

Constraints gone, GOP ramps up effort to monitor voting

The GOP heads into its first presidential contest this November free from decades-old legal constraints on the use of volunteers to monitor the polls on Election Day.

6 years ago

College Hall on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Pa. coronavirus recovery: UPenn to move classes online, freeze tuition this coming semester

The University of Pennsylvania announced that the vast majority of undergraduate classes will be online, with some exceptions like clinical rotations for nursing students.

6 years ago

(Tom Gralish/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

Public record or trade secret? Battle over number of liquor licenses could go to Pa. high court

The case comes as the PLCB navigates the relatively new landscape in Pennsylvania for buying and selling alcohol.

6 years ago

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Politics & Policy

Pa. Republicans aim new bills at shutdowns of schools, athletics

Currently, schools and parents make the decision as to when a student can repeat a school year Republicans say. But they seek to give that decision-making power to parents.

6 years ago

The Pennsylvania state Capitol
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania may seek federal loan to pay jobless benefits

Wolf has urged Congress to extend the $600 per-week benefit. Under Trump’s plan, a new $400 a week benefit requires a state to commit to providing $100.

6 years ago

Rows of school buses
Education

Pa. schools to get more state coronavirus analysis to guide reopening

The Department of Health said Monday it plans to provide an analysis showing the seven-day rate of transmission in each county and group those rates into risk categories.

6 years ago

Voters wait in line outside a polling place in Philadelphia.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Poor People’s Campaign bolstered by 2016 data as it urges voter participation in 2020

In Pennsylvania, if 55% of low-income eligible voters who didn’t turn out in 2016 had voted, the outcome could have been different for the state’s 20 Electoral College votes.

6 years ago

Sesame Place
Community
NBC10

Police: Man punches Sesame Place worker who reminded him to wear mask

The teen suffered a jaw injury and a damaged tooth. He was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Middletown on Sunday and underwent surgery on Monday.

6 years ago

Mail-in ballot
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. legislature’s delays could result in chaos for election officials and voters in November

“If they get too far into the weeds or attempt to drop in other fixes now, my fear is nothing will get done.”

6 years ago

A sign on a building marks the offices of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh submitted a charge to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday that publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block
Community

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom votes overwhelmingly to strike

Union members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette voted overwhelmingly to go on strike Monday after years of stalled contract negotiations.

6 years ago

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