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 Matt Slocum
June 26, 2020 | 5:23 AM

Dueling Trump-Biden events offer contrasting virus responses as the Democrat visits Lancaster

Biden: “Amazingly, he hasn’t grasped the most basic fact of this crisis: To fix the economy we have to get control over the virus."
By Will Weissert and Marc Levy/The Associated Press
 Kate Landis / PA Post
June 25, 2020 | 8:29 PM

Biden brings campaign to Lancaster, but remains out of sight

Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters faced off briefly outside venue where Democratic presidential candidate spoke
By Ed Mahon
 Matt Slocum
June 24, 2020 | 10:13 AM

Midstate communities reconsider Columbus likenesses in public space

“Statues and monuments like this are about who we choose to glorify.”
By Alanna Elder

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 Freedom Initiative
May 4, 2020 | 5:14 PM

Lancaster schoolteacher imprisoned in Egypt is released

Reem Desouky, a dual Egyptian-American citizen and single mother from Lancaster, had been arrested on arrival at the Cairo Airport with her teenage son in July 2019.

By The Associated Press
 Russ Walker
May 4, 2020 | 3:53 PM

Coronavirus prompts cancellation of Long’s Park Summer Music Series

By Sean Adams, PennLive
 Elaine Thompson
April 7, 2020 | 9:25 AM

Assisted living facility in Lancaster reports several deaths from coronavirus

An assisted living home in Lancaster has reported six of its residents have died over the last two days apparently due to the coronavirus.

By Edward Sutelan/PennLive
 Dan Gleiter
March 13, 2020 | 12:29 AM

Possible coronavirus exposure prompts school closures

"While we do not have any confirmed cases in our district, we are closing schools out of an abundance of caution,”
By Emily Previti
 Ian Sterling for WITF
November 27, 2019 | 6:14 AM

The puzzle of Lancaster County’s economy

The heavily rural county has a lot of manufacturing jobs and a low share of college-educated workers.
By Cardiff Garcia and Stacey Vanek Smith/NPR's Planet Money
 Weshoyot Alvitre
November 18, 2019 | 7:01 AM

Native American comic artists tell story of 1763 massacre of Conestoga tribe in Lancaster

“The landscape of film and TV that shows dead natives is hip-deep. You wade through it. We didn’t want to do that. We didn’t need to fetishize what happened.”
By Peter Crimmins/WHYY
Event Date: November 22, 2019

RSVP to Smart Talk Road Trip to The Extraordinary Give in Lancaster

Smart Talk Road Trip returns to The Extraordinary Give in Lancaster on Friday, November 22nd. 
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