Last week, U.S. Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., introduced the “Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act.” The bill would have the U.S. Department of Justice create a grant program “to hire, train, and retain detectives and victim services personnel to investigate shootings and support victims.” Demings, who served more than a quarter-century in […]

Washington — US Congressman Dwight Evans in District D-3 provides $ 1 billion in federal funding over the next decade to help local and state police increase both deadly and non-fatal clearance rates A shooting case that is co-leading a new bill to do. “Helping state and local police resolve more deadly and non-fatal shootings […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, is co-leading a new bill that would provide $1 billion in federal funding over the next 10 years to help local and state police raise their clearance rates for both fatal and non-fatal shooting cases. “Helping our state and local police solve more fatal and non-fatal shooting […]

Over the last 18 months, the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium rose to health-care stardom as a go-to provider for coronavirus testing and vaccine distribution in Philadelphia’s hardest-hit neighborhoods. But what started as a mobile grassroots effort to help the underserved weather the pandemic has evolved into a brick-and-mortar primary care clinic aimed at improving health […]

On Friday, Oct. 1, a group of Pennsylvania Congress members sent a letter to President Biden and the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, urging them to immediately terminate the ICE contract held with the Berks County Residential Center. The letter, led by Representative Madeleine Dean, came after she joined the Shut Down Berks […]

Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite and U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans advocated Friday for school-repair initiatives to remain in a federal bill that would provide funding for the district to restore older buildings. Parents and teachers have complained for years about dangerous conditions in Philadelphia schools, especially around asbestos, and have called for greater transparency about existing […]

WASHINGTON — A member of Berks County’s congressional delegation and some of her colleagues are echoing repeated calls for the federal government to end its practice of detaining undocumented immigrants in Berks County. U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean announced Friday afternoon that she recently sent a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him and the Department […]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (PQHH) today commended the introduction of the Choose Home Care Act of 2021 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Introduced by Representatives Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and James Comer (R-KY), the bipartisan legislation is designed […]

School advocates are fighting for a voice in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act. The U.S. Senate is actively debating the $3.5 trillion proposal, which would vastly expand the nation’s social safety net and combat climate change. Advocates in Pennsylvania are fighting to include a provision that would invest in school infrastructure. Rep. Dwight […]

Many Philadelphia schools urgently need repairs, and local funds alone can’t pay for the billions of dollars needed to bring buildings up to 21st-century standards. Help must come from Washington, officials said Friday. “We must do something about these facilities,” said U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans (D., Phila.), standing on the rooftop of Academy at Palumbo, […]