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Adam Marles Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Joel and Ellen Blice of Berlin, Md., visit from outdoors with his mother, Jean Blice, at Redstone Highlands nursing home in Greensburg March 24.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A year ago, the Wolf administration did something both unthinkable and absolutely necessary: It closed nursing homes to all visitors to combat the covid-19 virus. Long-term caregivers unders...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Do you remember in the early days of the covid pandemic when Gov. Tom Wolf promised his decisions would be “data-driven”? “We have to follow the science,” he reminded us. So convincing was this supposed “data” that Wolf temporarily shut Right-to-Know (RTK) offices so we couldn’t ask for it. Transparency in action, my friends. Well, Wolf’s latest stab at hiding in...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Pennsylvania Department of Education recently announced that it would allow individual school districts to decide whether to administer PSSA and Keystone Exams this spring, as would be typical, or to postpone these tests until the fall. While the Biden administration is imploring schools to stick with the usual plan of spring standardized testing, we commend the Department f...

The NCAA announced policies designed to keep March Madness on track for a safe and successful tournament. These policies include holding all 68 games in the Indianapolis area and limiting the number of people in each venue to 25% of its capacity. These restrictions will serve to limit the spread

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. I’m a proud Pittsburgher. How could I not be? I was born and raised in the Steel City and attended the University of Pittsburgh down the street from my home. In 2014, I founded a nonprofit organization, Queen’s Gambit Chess Institute. I have taught chess in Pittsburgh’s nine districts ever since. I’ve lived here since 1999, and I thought I knew everything I needed to be ...

A sleeping infant struck and killed by a stray bullet during a gunfight in Spring Hill. An elementary school teacher slain in her Westmoreland County home when someone shot into the incorrect house in retaliation over a drug deal gone wrong. A young, Black man, cornerback on his Catholic high

A lot of my friends have joked: “It feels like all I did in 2020 was wash my hands!” All humor aside, it’s my hope that hand hygiene and washing has been reinvigorated and widely adopted as a primary defense against illness in this country. As I noted in my

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. What happens in a world where medical innovations like the vaccines that are defeating the coronavirus are no longer possible? That could be the result of a ham-handed effort to make America an “also-ran” country in the global pharmaceutical business. Some lawmakers are trying to revive the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, a bill that passed the House in December 2019 but failed to...

Sally Pipes AP   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Health care reform is back on the agenda in Washington. At the end of January, President Biden signed two executive orders that aim to make it easier for people to sign up for coverage. On Saturday, the House passed a $1.9 trillion covid-19 relief package that includes billions in new health insurance subsidies. The president and his allies in Congress are ign...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. There is no single organization that is more intertwined with our state’s health and well-being than UPMC. It is the largest health care provider, the biggest landowner, the largest employer and the largest tax-exempt charity in Pennsylvania. UPMC loves talking about its “life-changing” medicine, but it is time to talk about UPMC’s wages. The essential workers who ensure...