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Pennsylvania announces plan to produce 50% of state government electricity through solar energy

Pennsylvania announces plan to produce 50% of state government electricity through solar energy

Ella Yurick, Reporter March 29, 2021

Governor Tom Wolf announced on March 22, 2021 a major clean energy initiative with a goal of producing approximately 50% of state government energy by 2023. Currently, just 4% of the commonwealth’s...

This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist reviews a plate with serological test samples. Serological testing is used to detect antibodies, which indicate past infection with the virus that causes COVID-19, and is important to the understand of disease prevalence within a population. (CDC/ James Gathany/Public Domain)

PA becomes 8th state to exceed 1 million COVID-19 cases

Allyson Lin , Reporter March 29, 2021

Pennsylvania has become the eighth state in the U.S to exceed 1 million cases, according to The Morning Call. Recently, the state of Pa has added more than 3,600 Covid-19 cases on Thursday, March 25.  According...

Pennsylvania Governor Wolf addresses the media on March 16, 2020.  Wolf and Secretary of Health Levine are expected to release details for a statewide contact tracing program on May 1, 2020.  (Governor Tom Wolf/CC BY 2.0)

Governor Tom Wolf increases gathering size limits

Allyson Lin , Reporter March 29, 2021

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that indoor  and outdoor events may increase their gatherings to 75% of capacity.  This change impacts a variety of businesses including gyms, entertainment venues,...

Dauphin County Moving to Yellow Phase

Paige Dalto, Lead Copy Editor May 26, 2020

Governor Tom Wolf has approved eight additional counties including Dauphin to move to the yellow phase of reopening on May 29th. According to the Wolf Administration, all Pennsylvania counties remaining...

Tom Wolf: More than PA’s Governor

Haley Daniels, Reporter March 20, 2019

From owning a business to governing a state, Tom Wolf has seen it all, but his beliefs stay rooted in helping others and benefitting Pennsylvania. The midterm election took place on Tuesday, November...

Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., a member of the House Appropriations Committee, emerges from a House Republican Conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017. Dent announced his intention to resign from the House in May on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Representative Dent to retire early from Congress in May

Robert Sterner, Advisor April 18, 2018

Republican Representative Charlie Dent has announced today his retirement next month.   Previously he had said he would resign at the end of the year.  The resignation may trigger a special election,...

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