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AP   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Members of the Voice of Westmoreland, a local grassroots organizing group, raised a call for the county to establish a health department during an online town hall forum on the vaccine rollout in the region. The online town hall brought together representatives from Service Employees International Union, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Healthcare PA, the Greater Greensburg-Jeannette NAACP and Westmoreland Community Action as well as 220 households. Partic...

The Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Public education advocates applauded the proposed 21% boost to K-12 funding in Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2021-22 budget Wednesday calling it bold and overdue, even as members of the Republican-controlled Legislature savaged it. “It is long overdue and very, very necessary,” said Ron Cowell, the former Allegheny County lawmaker and founder of the Pennsylvania Education Policy Center. “If enacted by the Legislature it wouldn’t solve al...

Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review AP   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Mark Rozzi was crushed Monday when Gov. Tom Wolf called to tell him an amendment seeking to open a window of opportunity in court for old child sex abuse claims would not make the primary ballot this year because of an advertising oversight. Rozzi, a state representative from Berks County who has recounted how he was raped by a priest in junior high school, has led the charge to change the law for several years. During that time, he’s...

AP   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A constitutional amendment designed to limit the governor’s powers to extend emergency disaster declarations could make its way to a voter referendum as early as this spring. State Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward, a Hempfield Republican and one of Gov. Tom Wolf’s harshest critics, sponsored the proposed amendment that would limit the disaster declarations, currently capped at 90 days with provisions for indefinite extensions, to 21 days. It also would force the gov...

Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh are joining 19 other leading research institutions around the world in an effort to accelerate research in the next five to 10 years on global health issues such as cancer and infectious disease. Spokesmen for Wellcome Leap, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization armed with $300 million in seed money, said the Leap network wants to produce innovative solutions to vexing global health challenges in record time by...