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Pennsylvania

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Health

Coronavirus update: Montco finds widespread, silent spread in prisons

“We’ve been checking temperatures in the correctional facility twice a day now for weeks,” said commission chair Val Arkoosh. “These are not people with symptoms.”

6 years ago

(Patrick Siebert for Gov. Larry Hogan / Flickr)
Health
Spotlight PA

States need coronavirus data to make timely decisions. What they share with the public varies widely.

Stateline and Spotlight PA surveyed six states — CO, GA, MD, PA, SC, and WA — to determine what information they have made accessible to the public via their websites.

6 years ago

Wine and Spirits store in Philadelphia
Community

Good booze news: Pa. liquor stores are ramping up curbside pickup

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is more than tripling the number of stores offering curbside pickup Monday.

6 years ago

Plant manager Joe Glass poses with automotive parts manufactured by Catalus Corp. (Photo provided by Dave Parsons)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

COVID-19’s economic blow to rural Pa. far outstrips the pandemic. But reopening won’t be easy

Dependence on one industry, powdered metal, is part of the reason why this part of Pennsylvania has seen such a large drop in employment.

6 years ago

Listen 4:51
Springfield Hospital in Delaware County.
Health

Coronavirus update: Don’t count on national stockpile, feds tell Pa.; Springfield Hospital closes all but ER

The Delaware County hospital cited a drop in patients and said the decision was temporary, according to a published report.

6 years ago

Virus Outbreak Inside A New York ER
Politics & Policy

Why so many COVID-19 deaths in Pa. will never be counted

Test kit shortages, at-home deaths, and obstacles facing hospitals mean relying on official results alone won’t capture the true toll of the coronavirus.

6 years ago

Ed Coffin runs Natural and Organic Marketing. He's running the firm from his home in South Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Money

‘A race for capital’: Philadelphia small businesses get another shot at payroll loans

A stimulus bill was passed Friday that includes $310 billion of new funding for the Paycheck Protection Program. The funding means newfound hope for Philly small businesses.

6 years ago

A resident is pictured using a wheelchair inside a nursing home.
Health
Spotlight PA

AARP calls on Pa. to release list of nursing homes with coronavirus cases

The number of long-term care residents and staff impacted by the coronavirus has nearly doubled in the past week, with 5,679 positive cases among residents and 849 deaths.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania's crucial but short-staffed public health nurses
Health
Spotlight PA

Cut, now crucial: Pa. slashed the ranks of its contact tracing nurses. Now, they are pivotal to reopening, but only a fraction remain.

For decades, they endured budget cuts, political battles, and a major state Supreme Court case. Now, when we need them most, only a skeleton crew remains.

6 years ago

Pa. senators participated and witnesses from Gov. Tom Wolf's administration participated in a remote hearing.
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. won’t say when it will release names of thousands of businesses that received waivers to operate

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle continue to raise concerns about how the Wolf administration has handled the business waiver process.

6 years ago

Wine and Spirits store in Philadelphia
Politics & Policy

Coronavirus update: Pa. expanding curbside pickup to more liquor store sites

The Liquor Control Board says it will expand its curbside pickup service to 389 more Fine Wine & Good Spirits locations in the state on Monday, April 27.

6 years ago

Voting sticker
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

‘Infection-protection’ kits promise safer voting in PA as mail-in ballots surge

There could be half the regular number of polling places open on June 2.

6 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf. (Spotlight PA)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Pa. withholds records on pandemic plans, equipment and business waivers

Government accountability advocates say Wolf’s administration has fallen short during the COVID-19 crisis, withholding critical public documents.

6 years ago

Rudolph Sutton poses with his son Rudolpho in a photo taken in 2015 at SCI-Graterford in Montgomery County, where Sutton was serving a life sentence. (Courtesy of Rudolpho Sutton)
Community

His father was the 1st Pa. inmate to die of COVID-19. Now, he’ll continue the fight to ‘clear his name’

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project concluded Rudolph Sutton was likely innocent, just as his health began to decline after serving 30 years behind bars.

6 years ago

Listen 2:21
The county correctional complex on State Road in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Courts & Law

Philly inmates ‘scared for their lives’

With little opportunity to socially distance, the coronavirus is spreading in Philly's four jails. There are more cases in those facilities than in all of Pa.'s state prisons.

Air Date: April 23, 2020

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