Pennsylvania

With help from private donations, the city says it will be able to aid 4,000 of those who applied for pandemic-related help. The original number was 3,000.

Grace Honeyman, a senior at Harriton High School, talks with her father about how she’s dealing with missing milestones due to coronavirus.

Reading and Berks should be neck-and-neck with neighboring counties and cities when it comes to the percentage of households responding to the census.

Although health officials say Philly has slowed the spread of the coronavirus, they are fearful of losing those gains if social distancing measures are relaxed too quickly.

It was debate marked by heckling, parliamentary wrangling, and an accusation that a Republican lawmaker called a Democratic colleague a “little girl.”

The pandemic has scrapped the playbook for primary campaigning in a congressional district that made waves in 2018 after the redistricting decision.

DEP has been “decimated” over the years by cuts, he said, adding even Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed increases were inadequate.

The state Treasury has temporarily halted direct deposit payments for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, and will only issue money by check.

This approach would require the use of assistive technology, such as screen readers or the ability to update refreshable braille displays.

Allegations of a cover-up are prompting calls for the House GOP leader to resign and one Democrat even called for an official investigation.

“No one wants to be in the situation where the presidential race comes down to Pa. and there is a week or two delay on us in delivering a victor," said state Rep. Kevin Boyle.

The legislature will send a short-term budget to Gov. Tom Wolf, an unusual measure made necessary by the strain put on the state’s finances by the coronavirus pandemic.

Leaders from Pennsylvania’s business, manufacturing, and health care industries are calling on the state to broaden liability protections to companies during the pandemic.

“Money has been sitting in Pennsylvania’s account for six weeks,” said Sen. Vincent Hughes. “The question is: Why are we waiting?”

On the fifth episode of our Battleground 2020 series, we'll focus on this Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary.