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TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. After a powerful fall resurgence, covid-19 has left no aspect of life untouched, including in Pennsylvania’s state prisons and county jails. Now that the first shots have been given, doctors, ethicists and politicians have begun to consider who should be vaccinated next and in what order this should happen. One group that is high on some lists and low on others is individuals in custody. How we respond to these tensions — and the way we allocate scarce treatments among at...

Sean Kertes And Doug Chew Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 2:00 p.m. | Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 2:00 p.m. Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Excela Health Frick Hospital staff look on as covid-19 patient Jim Toth, 89, of Everson, embraces his daughter, Cathy Majka, of North Huntingdon, after being discharged from the Mt. Pleasant facility April 22.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. We write in response to the Dec. 4 letter “$5 million grant to Excela wrong.” Transparency in government is important, so we’d like ...

Robert Smith AP   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. We have all heard the ongoing allegations of toxic pollution spewing from big business destroying our environment and killing us, cancer rates and respiratory diseases on the increase because of big businesses polluting for profit. These are some of the many emotionally charged allegations leveled by environmental groups. These types of allegations are many times overstated. Consider a couple of examples. Air quality The Clean Air Act required and the U.S....

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. President-elect Joe Biden ran on a platform to address climate change, remedy inequality, resurrect the economy, and implement a more focused covid-19 strategy but he faces some tough challenges delivering. It appears that Pfizer and BioNTech and Moderna should be rolling out vaccines soon, but it will take months to inoculate most Americans. Deploying vaccines beyond high-income countries and China could take even greater effort. Biden needs to explain to the nation that Asi...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Covid-19 has certainly made for an unprecedented situation for lawyers, as well as for our judges who try to maintain a semblance of order amid the overwhelming disorder that covid-19 has imposed. Court proceedings have always been about in-person proceedings, where we are able to personally confront opposing parties, their witnesses and sometimes a judge. Rules of practice never envisioned Zoom or its myriad side effects, which facilitate attorneys talking over judges or re...