Menciones en los medios de comunicación

La Cumbre 2023 Rebuilding PA de City & State reunió el martes en el Hilton Harrisburg a casi 100 de las mentes más brillantes de Pensilvania en un acto de un día de duración en el que se examinó cómo los líderes estatales y locales, las empresas y otros...

En Enfoque Político que se emite el sábado 18 de febrero de 2023 a las 6:30 a.m. y el domingo 19 de febrero de 2023 a la 1 p.m. con Jennifer Lewis-Hall comenzamos el programa de hoy con una recapitulación de un fallo ampliamente seguido. Nos enteramos de la decisión de un juez que...

HARRISBURG - El senador republicano Greg Rothman, de los condados de Cumberland, Dauphin y Perry, y el senador demócrata Nikil Saval, del condado de Filadelfia, proponen una ley bipartidista que convertiría Diwali en fiesta oficial del Estado en la Commonwealth. En Pensilvania...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - El senador estatal Greg Rothman (R-34) y el senador Nikil Saval (D-1) presentó una legislación para hacer Diwali una fiesta oficial del estado en Pennsylvania. Cerca de 200.000 residentes del sur de Asia residen en Pennsylvania, muchos de los cuales participan en Diwali como...

A principios de este mes, un papel llegó al escritorio del gobernador Josh Shapiro que, de ser firmado, habría fijado una fecha de ejecución para Rahmael Sal Holt. En 2017, Holt fue condenado por asesinar al agente de policía de New Kensington Brian Shaw. El Tribunal Supremo de Pensilvania confirmó la...

Josh Shapiro was once a supporter of the death penalty, including for the suspected gunman in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Philadelphia in 2018. Now, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania says his views on capital punishment have shifted, and...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) —Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Jueves he will not allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and called for the state's lawmakers to repeal the death penalty. “When my son asked me why it was okay to kill someone...

Governor Josh Shapiro said he will not issue any execution warrants during his term and called on the General Assembly to abolish the death penalty. Governor Shapiro was joined by elected leaders – including Sen. Vince Hughes, Sen. Nikil Saval, and Rep. Rick Krajewski...

Governor Josh Shapiro has called on the General Assembly to abolish the death penalty once and for all in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. On Jueves, when speaking in front of the Mosaic Community Church in West Philadelphia, Governor Shapiro stated he will not...

A moratorium on executions will continue in Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Jueves. Continuing the precedent set by his predecessor, Shapiro has refused to sign execution warrants and plans to use his executive authority to issue a reprieve to anyone whose...

Gov. Josh Shapiro wants to bring an end to capital punishment in the commonwealth.  During a press conference Jueves in West Philadelphia, the Democratic governor committed to grant a reprieve to any execution warrant that comes across his desk and called upon...

Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Jueves he would continue his predecessor’s practice of not signing death warrants and is “calling on the general assembly to work with me to abolish the death penalty once and for all in Pennsylvania.” The move represents a more liberal...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — As Pennsylvania's attorney general, Gov. Josh Shapiro supported the death penalty for years. On Jueves he announced he'd changed his mind. Speaking to criminal justice reform advocates at Mosaic Community Church in West Philadelphia, Shapiro...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro followed in the footsteps of his predecessor Gov. Tom Wolf on Jueves morning, Feb. 16, by announcing that any instance of capital punishment will not occur under his governorship. He also called on the General Assembly to abolish...

Gov. Josh Shapiro vowed Jueves not to sign any execution orders over the next four years, continuing the death penalty moratorium that his predecessor Tom Wolf formally signed eight years ago, and urged state lawmakers to abolish the death penalty "once and for...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Jueves he will not allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and called for the state’s lawmakers to repeal the death penalty. Shapiro, inaugurated last month, said he will refuse to sign...

A group of more than 170 trans, nonbinary, and cisgender contributors to the New York Times published an open letter on Miércoles, condemning the paper’s coverage of trans issues — particularly its reporting around trans youth and gender-affirming...

Over 200 New York Times contributors have signed an open letter addressed to the paper of record, critiquing its biased coverage of trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people. The letter was published Miércoles morning at the...

A coalition of community leaders, journalists, LGBTQ organizations, and celebrities called out The New York Times for its flawed and biased coverage of issues affecting the transgender community, and for spreading misinformation about the topic in order to...

There was a news conference at the former home of Philadelphia abolitionist William Still Martes morning. Pennsylvania State Senators Art Haywood and Nikil Saval announced a new legislation recognizing the second week in Febrero as William Still...

As part of Black History Month, several Pennsylvania State Senators announced an effort to recognize the contributions of a Black abolitionist. Senator Art Haywood, Senator Nikil Saval, State Representative Donna Bullock and State Representative Ben Waxman, along with...

Since Enero 2022 Temple University Graduate Student’s Association (TUGSA) has been negotiating with the university administration for improvements in healthcare, wages and overall working conditions. No agreements have been reached, and things just...

Temple University, a public school in Philadelphia with roughly 40,000 students, confirmed Miércoles that teaching and research assistants who take part in a strike over low pay will have their health coverage suspended and be forced to cover the full cost of tuition,...

In the wake of a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have alarmed Democrats concerned about the justices’ rightward shift, dozens of elected officials in Pennsylvania have endorsed expanding the court in an effort to restore balance.  Eight members of...

The Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA) went on strike early Martes morning for the first time in the union’s history since it was founded in 1979 and continues to show their support for a living wage through ongoing rallies...

Holding signs proclaiming “Respect TUGSA, Respect Students” and “Temple Works because TUGSA Does” on a lively picket line loud with chants and brass horns, Temple University Graduate Students’ Association members went on strike Jan. 31. They are demanding a fair...

Elected officials, Temple University students and local community leaders came together Jueves to show support for the ongoing strike being held by the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA) following over a year of failed negotiations on a new...

The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders wrote a message on his social media supporting the indefinite strike the Temple University graduate workers announced yesterday.  The Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA) called the strike after a year of non...

United States Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders voiced his support for Temple University Graduate Students’ Association’s strike in a tweet Miércoles evening. “If Temple can afford to pay its football coach $2 million per year, it can afford to pay its grad...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) -- Junior lawmakers typically defer to their senior leaders on important decisions. But drafting a memo for legislation about the cost of tickets to sporting events, newly-inaugurated state Sen. Frank Farry (R-Bucks) couldn't help himself. "We...

This crisis of unaffordable housing did not start yesterday. It’s a build-up of deliberate and very racist housing policy, corrupt financial institutions and severe structural deficiencies over generations. Recently, on WURD, Charles Ellison hosted a special ecoWURD...

What image comes to mind when you think about the environment? Is it a lush forest bursting with vibrancy? Or an open field where the sun casts its warmth over the rolling hills? How about an icy tundra? When we think of the environment, especially in the context of...

About 30 pre-apprentice carpenters, members of the Eastern Atlantic States Carpenters Technical College’s Carpenters’ Apprentice Ready Program, on Sábado created planter boxes to share with communities across Philadelphia in celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr....

Dozens of Black, brown and immigrant Philadelphia International Airport food service workers, who are members of UNITE HERE Philly Local 274, picketed at the airport’s Terminal B on Viernes for a contract they say has not been signed yet. The workers said they are...