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Governor Shapiro highlights budget proposal's comprehensive approach to increasing mental health support for students

Governor Josh Shapiro visits Parkland High School in Allentown to meet with students and hear about their experiences with mental health and to highlight his proposed budget investments in mental health resources for schools and counties. Pictured here are students and leaders from the Parkland High School District. Allentown, Pennsylvania. May 25, 2023

Kinsey Fresh Food Financing Initiative bill approved by House Committee

HARRISBURG, June 6 – Today, legislation (H.B. 580), introduced by state Reps. Stephen Kinsey, Danilo Burgos, and Morgan Cephas, all DPhila., to re-establish the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative was approved by the PA House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee

The woke derangement syndrome

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been touted as the presidential candidate who offers Trump without the drama, a Trump who can win rather than lose

Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity set to host a "Safer Summer In Philly" Weekend of Action June 2-4

Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity has something really special happening this weekend

Wear Orange

May 29 was Memorial Day in the United States, and the long weekend that is traditionally observed with shared American remembrance made headlines again for the shared all-American epidemic of gun violence

Supreme Court tossed out heart of Voting Rights Act a decade ago, prompting wave of new voting rules

ATLANTA (AP) — Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press forward with a similar law that had been on hold

About What CNN did to Don Lemon

I’ve been giving CNN what might appear to look like a pass for many months now. However, truth be told, every sentence we write and every story we tell in the SCOOP Newspaper is important

Get rid of your ANGER

The Apostle Paul states this about \"ANGER\"... “don’t sin by letting anger control you. Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil.

2045 Freight Movement Plan provides strategic vision for Pennsylvania freight

HARRISBURG, PA, May 17, 2023 – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced that the 2045 Freight Movement Plan (FMP), a comprehensive strategic plan for moving goods throughout the Commonwealth, is available on PennDOT’s website

PUC Alerts Consumers of June 1 Electric Price Changes; Urges Exploring Shopping & Conservation Options to #SaveinPA

HARRISBURG, May 17, 2023-The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) alerted consumers that on June 1 most electric utilities will be adjusting electric generation prices charged to non-shopping, or default service, customers reminded them they have options to #SaveinPA this summer, including shopping with competitive electric generation suppliers (EGSs) and exploring energy efficiency and conservation measures around their home or business

No more hoisting immigration woes on COVID - The end of Title 42

Remember the hysteria over Y2K

Here are all of the abortion debates happening this week in US courts and statehouses

Abortion opponents are trying again to implement restrictions in the latest round of court and legislative action on the divisive issue

We must stop Trump fascism - the danger is now

Last Wednesday evening marked the unofficial start of Donald Trump’s campaign to be reelected president of the United States

Justice dies when politicians turn vigilantism into a campaign stunt

On his way to see whether his expected presidential bid can play in Peoria, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis upstaged himself with a newsmaking tweet

Mayor Brandon Johnson's 'holistic' ideas got him elected. Can they be enacted?

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson barely had time to savor his victory before he was facing new questions about an issue that dominated this year’s mayoral race more than any other

12 year old Alana Inez, Makes Noise with "Minor in a Major World"

Kierra Sheard, Jekalyn Carr and Kelontae Gavin are a few artists that come to mind who you think of child gospel music prodigies

Parent & Youth Resource Fair connects families, teens to wealth of opportunities, programs

PHILADELPHIA, May 6, 2023 – The City of Philadelphia held a free Parent & Youth Resource Fair at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Saturday, May 6, 2023

Governor Shapiro hosts National Governors Association Roundtable on Youth Mental Health with Governor Phil Murphy and Governor John Carney

PHILADELPHIA, PA, May 18, 2023— Governor Josh Shapiro hosted a National Governors Association (NGA) roundtable on youth mental health in Philadelphia with NGA Chair New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Delaware Governor John Carney, and frontline leaders in youth mental health care

Cephas celebrates third edition of Overbrook Night Market

PHILADELPHIA , May 12 – State Rep. Morgan Cephas, D-Phila., celebrated the third year of The Overbrook Night Market in her district on Thursday, May 11, 2023

So much work to do

Mothers Grandmothers Women

The many accomplices to the Killing of Jordan Neely

“His mental illness screamed of profits prioritized over people …His Blackness disquieted the American ideals and sensibilities that proclaim us all equal

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin H. Rap Brown (Pt 2)

During his imprisonment in the ’70s, he went in H. Rap Brown and came out Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin

Cherelle Parker takes home the big WIN in Democratic Primary Election to face off against Republican David Oh in November

This feisty fifty-year-old Democrat just won the Democratic nomination to become the next Mayor of Philadelphia

This Information is Vitally Important

“The intention behind the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, Green Deal ‘Net Zero’ agenda is to completely block off the arteries of sentient life on earth and replace them with an insentient artificial construct

Voting can be a Family Affair

This week’s civics column is going to be personal. I hope that’s alright with you, our amazing SCOOP readers and subscribers

Military prowess provides neither peace nor strength

\"Peace through strength\" is the lodestar, the guiding assumption, of the United States policy since World War II

Winners from May 16th PA Democratic Primary Election

The primary election build-up to election day was one that some of us will not forget for a long time to come

Small Businesses are sounding the alarm in Harrisburg over House Bill to drastically hike the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage

Pennsylvania's leading small business advocacy association, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), is sounding the alarm over a proposed new bill in the state House, HB 1135, that would hike the Commonwealth's mandated minimum wage to $21/hour

Against AI, political punditry can still do the write thing

Striking Hollywood writers are nervous about artificial intelligence — also known as AI — and I’m not feeling so good myself

Tina Turner, 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' whose triumphant career made her world-famous, dies at 83

Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with her husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and '70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping \"What's Love Got to Do With It,\" has died at 83