Legislation Proposed To Legalize Marijuana In Pennsylvania
(Harrisburg, PA) Two state senators are proposing a new legislation to legalize marijuana in Pennsylvania. Republican Dan Laughlin and Democrat Sharif Street announced a bipartisan proposal to legalize marijuana in the state yesterday. Laughlin is the first ever Republican lawmaker to co-sponsor a recreational marijuana legalization bill in the state. The Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office reports that marijuana legalization could bring between 400-million-dollars to one-billion-dollars in new tax revenue for the state. HACC To Be Used As Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic
(Harrisburg, PA) HACC is agreeing to be used as a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic. The college announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with Dauphin County to use its West End parking lot area as a vaccination clinic soon. County officials say the clinic is going to be dependent upon the number of vaccine doses that are allo
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Last week, many top colleges and universities were celebrating their successes in admissions during the pandemic.
The Washington Post noted that Harvard University saw applications rise by 42 percent, while the University of Virginia was up 15 percent. The
Post credited the fact that many of these colleges were for the first time test optional this year, meaning students didn t need to submit SAT or ACT scores. The headline: Applications Surge After Big-Name Colleges Halt SAT and ACT Testing Rules.
In the West, the headline in the
Los Angeles Times was UC’s Record-Smashing Applications Put Long-Held Diversity Goals Within Reach. The story detailed the University of California s systemwide increase of 16 percent in applications. But it noted the Black applicants increased by 48 percent at both Berkeley and UCLA. Latinx applicants increased by 33 percent at UCLA and 36 percent at Berkeley. The University of California is test blind this yea
Dave Schankweiler makes it official, he will challenge Papenfuse to become Harrisburg mayor
Dave Schankweiler
After surveying Harrisburg residents and businesses for more than a month, entrepreneur Dave Schankweiler, announced his candidacy to be the capital city’s next mayor.
He will challenge incumbent Mayor Eric Papenfuse in the May primary. Papenfuse, who previously told PennLive he planned to seek a third term, was not immediately available to comment on Schankweiler’s candidacy.
Schankweiler, founder and former publisher of the Central Penn Business Journal, announced his decision today in a video message filmed at Harrisburg University. Schankweiler spoke of the realities of being a resident in a city that doesn’t work for everyone.
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What do you do when your COVID-19 vaccine clinic is 20 minutes from closing, only six people showed up for the day s last appointment, and you just opened a 10-dose Moderna vial?
Reports suggest that many clinics dump their leftover doses in the trash.
But some facilities have found solutions to minimize vaccine waste. Relying on constant communication, flexible planning, and a focused workforce including diligent volunteers, they said they have found takers for nearly all the thousands of doses they have prepared since vaccinations began last month. So far this has been not a hard problem to solve, said Dora Anne Mills, MD, who is coordinating the 11-hospital MaineHealth system s vaccination sites. It s really about planning and keeping an eye on things.