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Governor Tom Wolf’s proposed fiscal year 2021-22 budget—which seeks to raid $199 million from the Race Horse Development Trust Fund—would result in the end of horseracing in Pennsylvania, an integral part of the state’s agriculture industry that supports hundreds of small businesses and 20,000 family-sustaining jobs. The proposed budget repeats a recommendation the Wolf Administration put forth last year that failed to gain traction in the legislature. “It is hard to fathom why the Wo...

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. × COVID UPDATE: 4.3 million doses of vaccine have been administered across PA. See if you qualify and find appointments. × February 05, 2021 ...

We asked local lawmakers about Pennsylvania’s vaccine rollout plan:

Pa. budget: Gov. Tom Wolf calls for historic funding increase for public schools Updated Feb 04, 2021; Posted Feb 03, 2021 Gov. Tom Wolf is calling for a historic shift in the way Pennsylvania school districts are funded by the state. That requires a more than $1.1 billion investment to address the inequalities that existed in the old funding formula. Plus, he wants to increase funding for basic education by $200 million more in his 2021-22 budget proposal. Sept. 8, 2020. File/Mark Pynes | m...

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar will resign as the head of the Department of State after the office failed to advertise a proposed constitutional

Luzerne County and Northeast Pennsylvania will have some clout in Harrisburg this legislative session as several legislators have been named to chair committees. Sen. Lisa Baker, R-20, of Lehman Twp., will once again serve as the majority chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her colleague, Sen. John Yudichak, I-14, of Swoyersville, will be the majority chair of the Senate Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee. State Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-121, of Wilkes-Barre, will...

Mask Wearing After Vaccination ? 12:16 am Over half a million people in the state of Pennsylvania have received at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine, according to the Wolf Administration. But once the vaccine is received, are people still required to follow mitigation efforts like social distancing and wearing masks? Dr. David Csikos, the Chief Medical Officer at Chan Soon Shiong Medical Center at Windber explains why even after getting both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, pe...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health and Governor Tom Wolf delivered an update on the state’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts on Tuesday. An additional 143,000 doses of the vaccine are being allotted...

Alanna Elder / WITF President Joe Biden will soon try to get his immigration proposal through Congress. As a new legislative session gets underway at the state Capitol, immigrant advocacy groups in the midstate have set their priorities for Pennsylvania. After spending much of the fall organizing to get out the vote, members of the Latino and immigrant organization CASA are calling on lawmakers to support several initiatives, including allowing undocumented immigrants to qualify for in-sta...

HARRISBURG — COVID-19 numbers locally and statewide continued to remain steady in its decline on Sunday and Monday. On Monday, the Pennsylvania Department o