How to watch Pa. Health Secretary Rachel Levine talk COVID-19 vaccines and more with PennLive Editorial Board
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine will meet with PennLive’s Editorial Board to provide details on the coronavirus vaccine rollout. The discussion will air live on PennLive’s Facebook at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
The livestream of the Editorial Board meeting will allow readers to submit questions and hear the questions asked by PennLive reporters, editors and community board members.
Reporters Wallace McKelvey and David Wenner will join PennLive Outreach & Opinion Editor Joyce M. Davis and PA Media Group President Cate Barron to lead the discussion with Levine. They will explore the latest information about the vaccines being offered in Pennsylvania and how quickly people can expect them to be available.
Why Americans may not get the $600 check Congress just approved is the topic of today’s Facebook Live
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Congress has finally passed a relief bill to help relieve some of the stresses many Americans are facing during these difficult times, but President Trump doesn’t like the bill and is threatening to veto it.
Congress approved a $900 billion package that would put $600 in the pockets of taxpayers this holiday season. But the president says it’s not enough. He says Americans need at least $2000, and many progressive Democrats agreed with him. But that puts the president squarely at odds with many of his Republican colleagues, who are worried about the ballooning deficit and fiscal responsibility.
How to help people facing homelessness this winter is the topic of Thursday’s Facebook Live
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Local social service agencies that provide help to homeless people in our area are sounding the alarm. We’re heading into the dead of winter, people are losing jobs, the moratorium on evictions is slated to end Dec. 31 and the death toll from the coronavirus now exceeds 300,000 in the United States.
The statistics, indeed, are bleak, with the threat of even more suffering ahead. PennLive reporter Ivey DeJesus and John Luciew spent weeks looking into the situation for homeless people in our region, and the news is far from good.
Despair plus guns equals death for too many youth in Harrisburg | Social Views
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Too many youth in Harrisburg have simply given up. They’ve lost trust in a society they see as racist, that they believe wants to crush them, handcuff them, throw them in jail or worse – see them dead in the street before they’re 18.
It’s a sad but true consensus among those who should know that too many youth in Harrisburg have no hope of ever achieving the dream that is supposed to be guaranteed to every American.
Nativity School Headmaster Lavelle Muhammad put it bluntly: too many Harrisburg youth see only two alternatives: “fight or flight . . . and they’re choosing to fight.”