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Harrisburg’s Comprehensive Plan Working Group takes questions from PennLive at 6 p.m. today on Facebook Live Updated May 04, 2021; Members of the City of Harrisburg’s Comprehensive Plan Community Working Group will meet with PennLive’s Editorial Board at 6 p.m. Tuesday in a Zoom event that will be aired on live on Facebook. Winnie Okello, Basir Vincent, and James Hobbs, all members of the working group, will discuss the upcoming public Zoom forum “Civic Engagement, Power, and Politics,” that will be held 7 p.m. Thursday, May 6. The committee says it is looking to engage resident ...

To weather coronavirus, Black and brown-owned businesses show grit and determination Updated Mar 08, 2021; Facebook Share Without a doubt, the data points to the sobering fact that Black and brown-owned businesses have taken a disproportionate hit from the coronavirus. In the past year, more minority-owned businesses have gone under or drastically reduced their staff and hours. A survey by H&R Block released in February found more than half of Black small businesses owners said their revenue fell by at least 50% (by comparison, 37% of white small business owners responded similarly). But th...

Here’s why Black History Month matters | Opinion Updated Feb 19, 2021; By Joyce M. Davis In their day, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, even the dignified Mahalia Jackson had to go through the back door to mesmerize audiences with their talents; a sign of their inferior status as Blacks in America society. Today, acclaimed tenor Christyan Seay can walk through any front door of any Opera house anywhere in America, a sign of the progress Black Americans have made in the centuries-long march from slavery toward full equality. But we ain’t there, yet. Black leaders talk about issues of the ...

Christine Moschella Terlesky, my wife Janet’s niece, died the day after Christmas following a seven-year battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease. She was 48 years old and leaves her husband, Brian, and three handsome children, Brian, 21, Tyler, 16, and Emma, 12. Christine was as lovely and sweet on the inside as she was on outside. She was a wonderful wife and mother who took great pleasure in the accomplishments of her children. She was an accomplished teacher at Boardman High School, an outstanding coach, and a passionate advocate in the battle for a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the...

How to watch Pa. Health Secretary Rachel Levine talk COVID-19 vaccines and more with PennLive Editorial Board Updated Jan 13, 2021; Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine will meet with PennLive’s Editorial Board to provide details on the coronavirus vaccine rollout. The discussion will air live on PennLive’s Facebook at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. The livestream of the Editorial Board meeting will allow readers to submit questions and hear the questions asked by PennLive reporters, editors and community board members. Reporters Wallace McKelvey and David Wenner will join PennLive Ou...