Illinois will soon expand eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine to include people with high-risk medical conditions and disabilities, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Wednesday. The state is currently in Phase 1B of its vaccination program, which includes people 65 years and older, frontline essential workers and inmates. Starting Feb. 25, the […]
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CONCORD – Plunging into what is expected to be a dominant issue in the 2021 legislative session, a House committee on Thursday took up three bills that would change state tax rates, including those on businesses and unearned income. Over more than three hours, the House Ways and Means Committee plowed […]
Excerpts and summaries of news stories from the former Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era and Sunday News that focus on the events in the county’s past that are noteworthy, newsworthy or just strange. Rockvale Square Outlets held a groundbreaking ceremony in November 1995 for an expansion – but this one […]
Tao has always been moving, whether with his mouth or his legs. With a five-year gap between us, he was like a parent to me. Whatever sport, music or television show my older brother was following, I was engrossed in too. Growing up, we spent time between our parents’ homes […]
The UC-Berkeley Haas Class of 2022 is the largest the school has ever enrolled. Campus, however, remains closed amid the coronavirus pandemic. File photo For two years in 2016 and 2017, the acceptance rate at UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business was among the lowest of any B-school in the world. […]
CONNECTICUT — Gov. Ned Lamont said he is worried about Danbury’s 7 percent COVID-19 positivity rate, but that’s just one of the reasons the state Department of Public Health issued a “COVID-19 alert” for the city on Friday. The spike in COVID-19 cases in Hat City — and the state’s […]