Harrisburg City Council candidates debate police reform, affordable housing
Updated 12:40 AM;
Today 11:49 PM
Harrisburg s City Council candidates discussed police reform, affordable housing and other issues in a virtual debate Wednesday night. (Screenshot).
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It might be a tough choice, but the candidates faced off in a virtual debate Wednesday night to give residents a better idea of who they are, where they stand on the issues, and why they should be on city council to help carry Pennsylvania’s capital into the future.
Of the 13 candidates, 12 participated in the debate – Vishal Bajpai, Roy Christ, Shamaine Daniels, Crystal Davis, Carrie Fowler, Sarah Gethers, Ausha N. Green, Lavet Henderson, Jennie Jenkins-Dallas, Robert Lawson, Jocelyn Rawls and Ralph Rodriguez. Lori Ann Beamer-Saulisbury did not participate.
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.
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.”
More than 80 million people are breathing easier now that the Electoral College has voted: Facebook Live discussion
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
The Electoral College has met, delegates have cast their votes, and Joe Biden is the official winner of the battle to become the next president of the United States. Kamala Harris officially becomes the first woman of color to be declared vice president-elect. And more than 80 million people are breathing a sigh of relief.
Joe Biden also won the battleground in Pennsylvania, at least according to everyone except President Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters. Democratic analyst Rogette Harris and Republican commentator Jeffrey Lord will join PennLive Outreach & Opinion Editor Joyce M. Davis at 9 a.m. Wednesday on a Facebook Live airing of Battleground PA to debate Trump’s next moves.