A group of House and Senate Democrats, led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, are demanding that Biden cancel $50,000 in student loan debt for each borrower. The lawmakers wrote in part to President Biden: Canceling $50,000 of student debt would give 36 million Americans permanent relief and aid the millions more who will eventually resume payments their […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional members and police officers are sounding the alarm on the rise in violent crime across the U.S. and sadly, we’re seeing our fair share of that here in the Erie and Elmira areas. Congressional members are trying to tackle this issue head on. Back in December of 2021, Elmira investigators responded […]

Washington D.C. – The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Action Fund, which works to elect pro-environment candidates, announced today the first round of incumbent endorsements in the 2022 election cycle for the U.S. House — 28 candidates in key districts. The endorsements include Chairs Kathy Castor (FL-14) and Raúl Grijalva (AZ-07), and Reps. Tom O’Halleran (AZ-02), […]

On Friday, Jan. 14, student-artists from Philly’s Hill-Freedman World Academy (HFWA) released their fifth album through the school’s own record label, Hill-Freedman Records. Hill-Freedman Records released Love & Healing this past Friday. The new album features a whopping 32 original songs from the student-musicians. The album explores and celebrates the lives and legacies of musical legends who have passed in […]

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will speak in Philadelphia to announce a new, $26.5 billion Bridge Formula Program. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and Mayor Jim Kenney will join Secretary Buttigieg at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge. Other attendees include U.S. Senator Bob Casey, U.S. Representative Dwight Evans, and additional leaders. The briefing will take […]

Standing in front of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive Bridge in Philadelphia Friday, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg highlighted the bridge funding the city and commonwealth will receive as part of the federal infrastructure bill. “I’m here to give you a sense of literally what President Biden’s vision for building a better America […]

Washington According to a letter released Thursday, fifteen U.S. congressmen have called on President Joe Biden’s administration to investigate allegations of “forced labor” in the Dominican Republic’s sugarcane production for U.S. consumption. The members of the Subcommittee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives asked that “the accusations of exploitation and forced labor” […]

PLEASANTVILLE, New Jersey (WPVI) — In this Sunday’s sermon at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pleasantville, New Jersey, Pastor Willie Francois was energized by the word. But, one day before, he wasn’t sure he’d make it all the way through. “Just talking about my fatigue,” he said of his conversation with another faith leader on […]

Jan. 6, 2021, was a terrible day for our democracy. I was at the U.S. Capitol complex, and it was not simply a “protest,” as some revisionists try to claim. In an attempt to block the certification of a free and fair election, hundreds of rioters attacked police, injuring more than 100 officers. Five people […]

An editorial by Congressman Dwight Evans Philadelphia’s neighborhoods could finally be reconnected, thanks to President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion Infrastructure and Jobs Act. It’s no secret that racism shaped our interstate highways, especially here in Philadelphia. Planners of the interstate highway system routed some highways directly — and sometimes purposefully — through Black and brown […]