Our investigation into the Mariner East pipelines running through Pennsylvania found that many people are in the dark about what to do if something goes wrong.
Plus, Pennsylvania is on the brink of “a fall resurgence” of the coronavirus, as Secretary of Health Rachel Levine put it. So far, it’s too early for a concrete timetable to tell us when the majority of students in the Philadelphia School District will go back to in-person school.
As many as 345,000 people live close enough to the Mariner East pipeline system that they could be affected by a leak or serious explosion. Spotlight PA interviewed more than 80 residents, firefighters, school officials, and emergency responders who don’t have the crucial information they need about the volatile chemicals flowing through these pipelines — and what to do if things go wrong. Through court documents, violation records, and risk assessments, our investigation found pipeline operators have withheld this critical safety information from the public with little oversight by the state.
President Donald Trump’s baseless attacks on mail ballots as being vulnerable to fraud appear to have turned off some Republicans who put far fewer ballot requests in than Democrats have. And this week, Democrat surrogates are mobilizing their efforts to drum up turnout by making sure people know how to vote.
“The president has purposely orchestrated an effort to sow doubt in our democracy and sow doubt in our election system, and make it harder for Pennsylvanians to vote,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said. “He has quite literally sued us here in Pennsylvania multiple times, to try and make it harder for people to participate in our democracy.”
Judges rejected many of these lawsuits from Trump’s campaign and Republican leaders, including the arguments that Pennsylvania should prohibit drop boxes and allow poll watchers to observe satellite election offices. But not all. See: the state Supreme Court ruling that those so-called naked ballots will not count.
Whomever you vote for, here’s how to avoid a naked ballot issue: Put your ballot in the inner secrecy envelope before you put it in your mailing envelope, and then complete and sign the back of that outside envelope.
Starting Nov. 30, the city school district kicks off its phased plan with 32,000 children in prekindergarten through second grade getting back to business in person for two days a week.
Next up, they’ll admit students who receive services for special needs in January, with ninth graders and students in career programs back in the mix by early February.
But it’s still unclear when the 120,000 remaining students bringing up the rear will be able to return, per Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. The district plans to make that call based on COVID numbers and recommendations from health officials, Kristen A. Graham reports.
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- Loree D. Jones, the chief executive officer of Philabundance, and Sister Mary Scullion, president and executive director of Project HOME, write to call on the federal government to join communities in the fight to transform the lives of those battling food insecurity.
- Florence Momplaisir, MD, MSHP, FACP, and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, writes that a vaccine that people don’t want or won’t get can’t be effective, but it has the potential to reduce racial disparities in health outcomes.
“The last pandemic couldn’t shut us down, and neither will this one,” Carver W. Reed & Co. pawnshop company owner Tod Gordon reassured his customers when the pandemic hit. Founded in 1860, the company that lends cash against jewelry and sells new and used items has survived plenty, including the Spanish flu. It recently dropped big anniversary party plans in light of the climate, which still hasn’t come for their staying power. Why? In his interview with us, the owner chalks it up to treatment. “You treat people with dignity and give them respectful, professional service.”
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