For ten years, the city averaged slightly more than 513,000 tons annually. In the wake of the pandemic, the total skyrocketed to over 617,000 tons. To top it off, sanitation workers are not immune to Covid-19. Mayor Jim Kenney said over the summer many trash collectors have been unable to work.
By Rick Rickman
Jerry Wesner: The “New Normal” at PHL — will the airport economy lot ever reopen?
The economy lot of the Philadelphia Airport remains closed, and what is being done to address this problem remains a mystery.
By Jerry Wesner
Gina Diorio: More Covid data deception from the Wolf administration
The Wolf administration presented irrelevant data on the proportion of Covid deaths, hospitalizations, and cases among the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated.
By Gina Diorio
Former Sec. of State Boockvar and Gov. Wolf staffer helped selectively invite counties for election grants
Emails show that former Sec. of State Boockvar and a Wolf staffer participated in selectively inviting counties to apply for election grants — grants that would skew heavily towards Democratic-tilting counties.
By Todd Shepherd
Kevin Mooney: Bucks Co. education officials chose lawyer over health director for Covid policies
The parents who spoke up to try and reassert the authority of the public in public education, well, they just seem to exist to pay the taxes.
By Kevin Mooney
Pennsylvania school directors sever ties with national group after letter likening parents actions’ to ‘domestic terrorism’
The Pennsylvania School Boards Association voted this week to sever ties with its national parent organization over the latter likening some parents’ behavior to “domestic terrorism.”
By Christen Smith
Elizabeth Stelle: Covid didn’t “break” parents
Few things are more sickening than the realization that something you disagree with will happen to your child and there is nothing you can do about it. Parents get this, are speaking up, and are ready for big change.
By Elizabeth Stelle
Dispute between Wolf admin and feds delayed vaccine distribution to elderly
“Could we please get additional clarification on how this date of December 28 was decided?”…”Were there constraints identified that led DOH to determine it could not start vaccination before the 28th?”
By Todd Shepherd
Pennsylvania taxpayer burden unchanged after infusion of federal pandemic aid
Pennsylvania’s ledger has fallen short by $78.5 billion, a new report shows, leaving taxpayers on the hook for around $18,000 each.
By Christen Smith
Ben Mannes: Did controversy over Covid-19 treatments reveal the FDA’s “Vaccine Bias”?
While FDA approvals for potentially breakthrough treatments for Covid-19 languish, many wonder if recent plans from the Biden administration to control the distribution of monoclonal antibodies are a plan to hold back Covid-19 treatments in order to force Americans to get vaccinated.
A. Benjamin Mannes
