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Masks

Education

Wolf asks Pennsylvania legislators to mandate masks in public schools

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021
Christen Smith
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The Wolf administration and Republican lawmakers in control of the chambers are grappling over mandating masks in Pennsylvania schools.
By Christen Smith

Culture

Christine Flowers: The smarmy K-12 mask crusade

August 25, 2021August 26, 2021
Christine Flowers
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I have a problem with smarmily virtuous adults treating other adults as lepers because they do not want their children to spend another year wrapped in a mask.
By Christine Flowers

Health

Pennsylvania health secretary leery of legislative retaliation over mask mandate

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021
Christen Smith

Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam, Pennsylvania’s top health official, said a statewide universal masking mandate remains off the table due to concerns that blowback may interfere with the Wolf administrations other COVID-19 response efforts.
By Christen Smith

Sports

Beth Ann Rosica: Masks while playing sports – students say it feels like being waterboarded

April 7, 2021April 12, 2021
Beth Ann Rosica

Local school districts have adopted policies requiring student athletes to wear masks while playing sports. But neither the science nor common sense explain why it’s helpful and mounting evidence shows why it’s harmful, bordering on barbaric.
By Beth Ann Rosica, Ph.D.

Culture

George Hofmann: How our masks may change us

March 15, 2021March 16, 2021
George Hofmann
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It takes centuries to make a culture, and to understand that culture, a person must study with diligence the deepest thought of the centuries that formed it. To destroy it might be a much easier task.
By George Hofmann

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Op-Ed

Thom Nickels: Will USA 250 lead to a better Philadelphia? Don’t bet on it.

Thom Nickels: Will USA 250 lead to a better Philadelphia? Don’t bet on it.

schedule April 17 2026
ink_pen Thom Nickels

The poet T.S. Eliot once wrote, “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory […]

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