When problems like financial or food insecurity surfaced, people found solutions. By now, we have three covid vaccines, Philadelphia has fully vaccinated more than 140,000 people, and the city is beginning to introduce more lenient social distancing requirements. And a question for communities is, are the grassroots solutions still needed as we move forward? | From: Germantown InfoHub (Read more.)
Shannon Roche and Meagan Benz have opened a storefront to bring all of their staff back from the COVID-19 pandemic. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
The moratorium will lift April 1 for the state’s lower-income utility customers, but the commission also required all of its regulated utilities — including electric, natural gas, water, sewer and telephone — to give them additional payment plan options. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Students in the School District of Philadelphia returned to classrooms Monday for the first time in nearly a year. As part of the district’s phased return to in-person classes, a select group of pre-K through second-grade students showed up at 53 school buildings across the city. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Según el gobernador Tom Wolf, el estado recibiría $13.7 mil millones en ayuda federal para ser distribuída entre el estado y los gobiernos locales. De ese monto, Filadelfia recibirá 1.1 mil millones. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Rev. Cortés spoke up at a city news conference on the vaccine Friday, calling for a federally run vaccination site in the city’s Spanish-speaking neighborhoods that could cater to the communities there. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Each room at St. Pio’s has a window cracked and a door open. There’s a system for when students can use bathrooms between regular cleanings. And each desk has a three-panel barrier that students raise whenever they need to lower their masks. Behind the barriers sit roughly 230 students, from pre-K through eighth grade, about the same number who occupied this building last year. They’ve been learning in a decades-old Catholic school five days a week since the school year began. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Anyone who lives and works in Philadelphia can indicate interest in getting the vaccine at the official city sign-up page or by calling the city’s COVID call center at 215-685-5488. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
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The change came last year as a result of the economic downturn from the pandemic, the mayor’s office said — a $750 million deficit Mayor Jim Kenney had to figure out a way to close. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
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