Enforcement action begins at 8:00 a.m., Monday, March 23 Harrisburg, PA – Colonel Robert Evanchick, commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), issued the following statement today on the agency’s enforcement of Governor Tom Wolf’s order closing physical locations of non-life-sustaining businesses: “The priority of the Pennsylvania State Police is protecting lives and maintaining order in the commonwealth. […]
Harrisburg, PA – In recognition of the critical role boarding kennels, doggie daycares, shelters, sanctuaries, and rescues play in ensuring essential workers and at-risk individuals have a safe place to house dogs and the need for continued care for Pennsylvania’s strays, the Department of Agriculture today issued guidance for protecting staff and volunteers of such facilities. […]
U.S. Senate passes a bipartisan plan to expand paid leave and unemployment benefits; and as COVID-19 expands in U.S., Latino kids are in the crosshairs. Download QR 🡻
By: Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. — An independent policy research project has released a brief outlining steps to guard against the burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic falling disproportionately on the poor. The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center says the Keystone State should embrace the moral equivalent of wartime equality in its response to the pandemic. State spending […]
Harrisburg, PA – Major Gary Dance, director of the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Records and Identification, released the following statement today on the Pennsylvania Instant Check System (PICS). “Technology challenges and a surge in requests resulted in PICS twice going offline on March 17, 2020. An isolated server issue was responsible for the morning outage […]
Washington – Following President Donald J. Trump’s emergency declaration pursuant to the Stafford Act, the U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today issued guidance allowing all individual and other non-corporate tax filers to defer up to $1 million of federal income tax (including self-employment tax) payments due on April 15, 2020, until July 15, […]
Residents of Lancaster County who fear they may have been exposed to or are exhibiting symptoms of CoVID-19 should contact their primary care physician by phone or telemedicine to discuss what actions they should take. Due to the limited resources for testing, only patients exhibiting CoVID-19 symptoms- fever over 100.3 degrees, dry cough, difficulty breathing […]
March 2020 Public Meeting was cancelled. Here are the notes and information contained within the written report: View Report Download QR 🡻