Isabela Weiss
Reporter at WVIA-TV (Pittston, PA)
NEPA and Central PA journalist, @Report4America Corps Member, and cat mom to Boo and Lorelai 💐 https://t.co/cidlhTFfve
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1 week ago |
wvia.org | Isabela Weiss
Children ages four to 16 spoke in a cacophony of voices on one rosy spring morning in Wilkes-Barre, all clamoring to ask and answer The Four Questions for Rabbi Larry Kaplan. “Why on all other nights can we sit up or recline, but on this night we only recline,” asked nine-year-old Jack Yelen last Sunday at Temple Israel. Rabbi Kaplan repeated the fourth question of the Haggadah, the book Jews read from during the Passover Seder.
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2 weeks ago |
wvia.org | Isabela Weiss
Employees at Starbucks' location on Kidder Street in Wilkes-Barre are looking to unionize. They also say they have been under heightened scrutiny from corporate management since they filed election paperwork on March 24. “We've had the district manager coming in a lot more lately, kind of observing us. We've noticed a few people actually sitting in the lobby taking notes … and just staring at us for almost the entire day.
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2 weeks ago |
wvia.org | Isabela Weiss
Gov. Josh Shapiro is again pushing for lawmakers to create an adult-use cannabis program, which would launch early next year. Pennsylvania launched its medical marijuana program nine years ago, in April 2016. The governor believes this state has been losing money to its peers who took the next step in the meanwhile. “Five of our neighboring states have legalized adult use cannabis.
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1 month ago |
wvia.org | Isabela Weiss
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) is almost always fatal to horses and can spread to humans, according to Lackawanna County officials. The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) informed county officials that the virus killed a horse it infected at an undisclosed location in December. No human cases have been reported, according to the county's press release. The virus spreads by mosquitoes and has a 90% fatality rate in horses.
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1 month ago |
wvia.org | Isabela Weiss
A new lawsuit accuses the Bradford County Commissioners of illegally slashing the Bradford County Library’s budget and violating the state’s Sunshine Act. Friends of the Bradford County Library, a citizens group, filed the complaint Feb. 18 in Bradford County Court. The suit asks the court to restore the library’s budget to $471,106, the amount it was allocated before the commissioners’ December 2024 budget cut decision.
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