Thursday, December 31, 2020

Thursday PA Capitol & COVID NewsClips 12.31.20


Senate
swearing in day January 5; Senate Voting Session Days

Op-Ed: New Year’s Resolutions For Pennsylvania Legislators - PA League Of Women Voters

Everybody Wants To Change PA Election Law, But Nobody Trusts Each Other

Will Allegheny County Lose Clout In Harrisburg After Leadership Change In House?

PA Lt. Gov. Fetterman Pesters Texas Counterpart To Pay $3 Million For Voter Fraud Cases

Fmr Luzerne County Election Director May Purse Reward Offered By Texas Lt. Gov. For Voter Fraud Cases

AG Shapiro Calls Trump Campaign’s Latest Challenge To PA Election Results Before U.S. Supreme Court ‘Profoundly Incoherent’

Republican Opponent Continues Legal Wrangling Over Sen. Brewster’s Senate Seat

PA’s Incoming State Treasurer Pledges Openness, Close Scrutiny Of State Pension Funds

PennDOT: With Icing Potential In Upcoming Storm, Motorists Advised To Limit Travel, Watch For Changing Conditions, Travel Restrictions

No E-ZPass? You’ll Pay 56% More To Drive The PA Turnpike

2,200 People Shot In Philadelphia This Year, Experts Don’t See Easy Changes Ahead

Philly To Pay $9.8 Million To Man Exonerated After 28 Years In Prison For A Murder He Didn’t Commit

As Philly Gun-Possession Convictions Decline, DA Cites Issues With Witnesses Appearing In Court

Op-Ed: Gun Violence Is A Public Health Crisis Just As Important As The Pandemic

Philly Mayor Nominates 3 New Philly School Board Members

PLS Reporter: Pennsylvania Newsmakers In 2020

Editorial: Some Light Amid Darkness Of Awful Year

National/International

Laura Olson: A Presidential Election Like No Other, Now An Inauguration Like No Other

What Bills From Western PA Congressmen Did Trump Sign?

AP: Republican Utah Senator To Object To Biden’s Victory Citing Baseless Election Fraud In PA, Other States

AP: Census Bureau To Miss Reporting Deadline, Jeopardizing Trump Plan To Exclude People From Count

Civil Justice

Op-Ed: What We Learned From Those We Lost In 2020 - Member Of Congress Madeleine Dean

Coronavirus

Dept. Of Health Reports 306 Additional Deaths Due To COVID; 8,992 New Cases - [Next Reports Jan. 2 & 4] -- 12.31.20

Wallace McKelvey: Hospitals Prepare For Post-Holiday Surge Of COVID Cases, Deaths

Gov. Wolf Announces Lifting Of Temporary COVID Mitigation Measures On Jan. 4

AP: Wolf To Let Some COVID Lockdown Measures Expire On Monday

Jan Murphy: COVID Temporary Restrictions On PA Restaurants, Other Businesses Will Be Lifted Jan. 4

Ford Turner: Wolf Ends 3-Week Ban On Indoor Dining, School Sports Effective Monday

Jan Murphy: PA Business Leaders Grateful For Lifting COVID Restrictions, But Wonder How Long It Will Last

Here’s What COVID Restrictions Will Remain In Place

High School, Youth Sports To Start Back Up Jan. 4, Here’s When Games Could Start

Commonwealth Court Leaves Temporary COVID Restrictions In Place, Denies Restaurant Owner Challenge To Orders

State Asks Court To Shut Down Lehigh Valley Restaurant For Defying COVID Dining Ban

Dept. Of Health Reports 319 Additional Deaths Due To COVID; 8,984 New Cases-- 12.30.20

PA Reports 319 New COVID Deaths, One Of Highest Single Day Totals

As Allegheny County’s COVID Cases Slow, Deaths Hit Record Mark

Johnstown Hospital Brings In Refrigerated Trailer To Serve As Temporary Morgue

Expert Opinion: COVID Deaths Are Rising, Do YOu Know All Your Life-Saving Options?

Mount Nittany Medical Center Cancels All Elective Procedures Thru Jan Due To COVID Surge

Guardians Against COVID: Health Care Heroes On The Front Lines In Lycoming County

Dept. Of Health Launches New COVID Vaccine Data Dashboard On Distribution Process

See Which PA Nursing Homes Are Getting COVID Vaccine This Week

Health Secretary Signs Order Directing Vaccine Access For Health Care Personnel

Dept. Of Health: COVID Vaccine Federal Pharmacy Partnership For Long-Term Care Program Kicks Off Across PA

Allegheny County Getting Faster At Distributing COVID Vaccines, Health Director Says

More Than Half Of Vaccine Doses Delivered To States In Philadelphia Region Have Not Been Used

70% Of Staff From County-Run Nursing Homes In Western PA Sign Up For COVID Vaccines

After Seeing Patients And Taking Risks All Year, PA’s Private Doctors Left Out Of Vaccination Process

Mobile COVID Testing Facility Makes First Stop In Scranton

What Pittsburgh Region Needs To Know About New U.K. COVID Strain

Op-Ed: The COVID Outbreak PA Doesn’t Want You To Know About - Prisons

Op-Ed: Incarceration Has Always Threatened Health, COVID Just Worsened The Problem

Op-Ed: Doesn’t Anyone Care About The Spread Of COVID In PA?

Op-Ed: COVID Pandemic Taught Us Brutal Lessons In 2020, Will We Heed Them In 2021?

Editorial: A Goal Within Reach: Biden’s Call To Wear Masks For 100 Days

Westmoreland Bar Continues To Defy COVID Orders As Late Bartender Memorialized

Westmoreland Mall Mini-Casino Set To Reopen Monday

2 PA Casinos Ready To Roll, Other Businesses Not Planning To Reopen Despite Wolf’s Announcement

Nemacolin Resort Closes For Holidays, Plans To Reopen Next Week When COVID Restrictions Are Lifted

Luzerne County’s Virus-Limited Scheduled Ends Sunday, Manager Says

Across Lehigh Valley, Municipal Doomsday Pandemic Tax Increases Haven’t Panned Out Yet, But Real Pain Could Come In 2021

Limiting Foreclosure And Eviction Risk Will Take More Than A Vaccine

New Federal Stimulus Gives Philly’s Struggling Music Scene A Shot In The Arm

Blair County Submits Final Report On How It Spent Federal COVID Aid

Here’s How Centre County Spent $14.7 Million In Federal COVID Aid

Editorial: Paying Unemployment Back To The State

Wilkes-Barre Area School District Staying Remote-Only Thru January

Erie School District’s New Virus Aid: $28 Million

Top Stories Of 2020: Schools Balance Health And Education As COVID Surges

PennDOT Extends Expiration On CDL Licenses, Commercial Learner’s Permits

National/International

States Rewrite Vaccine Rules To Get COVID Shots Moving

Why The New COVID Mutations Might Not Be As Scary As You Think

AP: California Has Nation’s 2nd Confirmed Case Of New COVID Variant

AP: $2,000 Individual COVID Stimulus Checks All But Dead As U.S. Senate Republicans Refuse Aid

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