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Mar 16, 2021 Monday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported a two-day total of 3302 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the states overall total to 961,456. During that same two-day period, 14 new coronavirus-related deaths were reported, leaving the commonwealth with 24,587 since the pandemic began just over a year ago. 5.7-percent of all COVID-19 tests in the seven day period ending March 11th came back positive. Effective April 4th, Gov. Tom Wolf is lifting some restrictions on rest...

STRUZZI ACCUSES WOLF OF DECEPTIVE WORDING OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT By Todd Marino Mar 14, 2021 7:23 AM As Senate Republicans did several weeks ago, Representative Jim Struzzi is accusing the Wolf Administration of misleading the public about the proposed constitutional amendment that would limit a governor’s powers in an emergency disaster declaration. Struzzi says the governor and the secretary of the commonwealth “have abused their discretion and inserted language into the cons...

HARRISBURG, Pa. /Massachusetts Newswire – National News/ — AMI Expeditionary Healthcare announces its partnership with the state of Pennsylvania and for its special initiative to help vaccinate all schoolteachers, child-care worker and school staff. Pennsylvania expects to receive an initial allocation of 94,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) single-dose vaccine this week and AMI Expeditionary Healthcare will begin vaccinating on March 10. “This is an extraordinary opportunity t...

(HARRISBURG, Pa.) — NEWS: AMI Expeditionary Healthcare announces its partnership with the state of Pennsylvania and for its special initiative to help vaccinate all schoolteachers, child-care worker and school staff. Pennsylvania expects to receive an initial allocation of 94,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) single-dose vaccine this week and AMI Expeditionary Healthcare will begin vaccinating on March 10. “This is an extraordinary opportunity to be able to help Pennsylvania open...

The Voice of Indiana County PITTMAN BLASTS DEP SECRETARY DURING BUDGET HEARING By Hometown1 Mar 12, 2021 4:32 AM Senator Joe Pittman lit into Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell yesterday at a Senate Appropriations Committee budget hearing, blasting the Wolf Administration for failing to work with the communities that would be most affected by the loss of jobs that the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative would bring to Pennsylvania. Pittman got McDonnell to...

Just launched: One Lens: Sharing Our Common Views — a statewide collaborative visual and storytelling project to document Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 experience. Just launched: One Lens: Sharing Our Common Views — a statewide collaborative visual and storytelling project to document Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 experience. × More than 5.7 million doses of COVID vaccine have been administered in PA. EVERYONE is eligible for vaccination by April 19. Learn more. More than 5.7 milli...

So far, about 6,500 individuals have been vaccinated at 20 clinics.

Forget Meghan and Harry. The hottest story in Luzerne County this week is the frustration thousands are feeling over the difficulty of securing a COVID-19 shot.

Tolling the John Harris/I-83 bridge is a regressive tax | PennLive letters Updated Mar 12, 2021; This letter is in response to “Pa. lawmakers unhappy about tolls are reminded of 2012 law they passed.” PennDOT’s plan to build replacement bridges, including the John Harris/I-83 bridge, and pay for them by tolling motorists is a regressive tax. It will burden individuals and families who use the highways to reach their employment, shopping, medical care and other essential needs. Thousands ...

Katie Blackley / 90.5 WESA The past year has been boring for 88-year-old Jan McGrath. The retired nurse lives with her husband, Bill, at Westminster Place, a licensed personal care home in Oakmont. McGrath said she spends a lot of time reading, mostly westerns and mystery novels. She also watches some TV. “I like Hallmark, cause when you watch Hallmark you don’t have to think,” said McGrath, who finds the news depressing, and misses her family. While the pandemic has caused people ar...