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Adam Marles Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Joel and Ellen Blice of Berlin, Md., visit from outdoors with his mother, Jean Blice, at Redstone Highlands nursing home in Greensburg March 24.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A year ago, the Wolf administration did something both unthinkable and absolutely necessary: It closed nursing homes to all visitors to combat the covid-19 virus. Long-term caregivers understood that isolating residents from their families was vital in protecting them from a deadly illnes...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Do you remember in the early days of the covid pandemic when Gov. Tom Wolf promised his decisions would be “data-driven”? “We have to follow the science,” he reminded us. So convincing was this supposed “data” that Wolf temporarily shut Right-to-Know (RTK) offices so we couldn’t ask for it. Transparency in action, my friends. Well, Wolf’s latest stab at hiding information just went bust. And Pennsylvanians should be outraged by the revelation. Last July, Wolf ...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Pennsylvania Department of Education recently announced that it would allow individual school districts to decide whether to administer PSSA and Keystone Exams this spring, as would be typical, or to postpone these tests until the fall. While the Biden administration is imploring schools to stick with the usual plan of spring standardized testing, we commend the Department for this flexibility. Now it is time for citizens and parents to ask their local school districts to...

The NCAA announced policies designed to keep March Madness on track for a safe and successful tournament. These policies include holding all 68 games in the Indianapolis area and limiting the number of people in each venue to 25% of its capacity. These restrictions will serve to limit the spread

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. I’m a proud Pittsburgher. How could I not be? I was born and raised in the Steel City and attended the University of Pittsburgh down the street from my home. In 2014, I founded a nonprofit organization, Queen’s Gambit Chess Institute. I have taught chess in Pittsburgh’s nine districts ever since. I’ve lived here since 1999, and I thought I knew everything I needed to be an educated citizen. I was wrong. It wasn’t until earlier this summer when I spoke to leaders fro...