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Health employee families allowed to skip vaccine line

One of Pennsylvania’s largest health networks allowed employees’ family members to skip the COVID-19 vaccine line, raising questions of fairness at a time of strong public demand and scarce supply. Geisinger’s decision to give special access to employees’ relatives earned a rebuke ...

Pa. lawmakers ask feds to waive test mandate

HARRISBURG (AP) — The chairs of Pennsylvania’s state Senate Education Committee on Wednesday asked the Biden administration to waive this year’s requirement for school standardized testing because of the pandemic. Sens. Lindsey Williams, D-Allegheny, and Scott Martin, R-Lancaster, wrote ...

GOP: Wolf is trying to sabotage ballot questions

HARRISBURG — Republican leaders of Pennsylvania’s legislature said Wednesday that Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is trying to sabotage ballot questions to amend the constitution to shift authority over the length of emergency declarations from governors to lawmakers. The measures arose ...

Lawmakers eye impact of census delay on redrawing districts

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers worried about the delay in census results were told Wednesday it may be May 2022 before the next set of district lines for Congress and the Legislature are hammered out. The delay in getting data from the 2020 count could result in rescheduling the ...

Lawmakers unhappy about tolls reminded of passed law

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania state lawmakers unhappy Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is considering tolling nine major bridges were warned about that prospect when they passed legislation in 2012 delegating approval to appointees of the governor and top lawmakers, they were told ...

Pa. experiencing highest hunger levels of pandemic

UNIVERSITY PARK — At the end of 2020, more than 12% of Pennsylvania households were experiencing hunger — the highest rate since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. “We’ve seen the media accounts of ...