Americans watched in horror as protests over Gregory Floyd’s death devolved into riots and looting from New York to Los Angeles this weekend, but perhaps just as surprising were media reports of the dark conspiracy behind it: White supremacists. Within 24 hours, social media and cable news networks were spreading an unfounded conspiracy theory that […]

Local Democrats like state Sen. Vincent Hughes are using their official state Facebook pages to push out their party’s get-out-the-vote message — just in time for Tuesday’s primary. And so are some Democrats in leadership, like Senate Democratic Minority Leader Jay Costa. While many legislators have personal or campaign Facebook pages to promote their political […]

America’s “deaths of despair” — suicides, alcoholic liver disease and drug overdoses — are on the upswing as the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown lingers, with at least 20 states reporting a surge in deaths from opioid overdoses alone. Since the extreme lockdown measures were enacted in March, public health experts have publicly expressed concerns that an […]

A California-based “dark money” group has dumped almost $200,000 into Pennsylvania elections as part of a strategy to use local races to advance its national green-energy agenda, Delaware Valley Journal has learned. The organization, the Green Advocacy Project (GAP), is a political nonprofit founded by former members of billionaire activist Tom Steyer’s NextGen organization, and […]

Since the coronavirus pandemic forced hundreds of millions of Americans into lockdown, mental health advocates have expressed concerns that isolation would create its own healthcare crisis: “Deaths of despair” from suicide, alcoholism and drug overdoses. A recent study on deaths of despair by the Well Being Trust, a national foundation dedicated to advancing the mental health of […]

When Delaware County finally emerges from Gov. Tom Wolf’s lockdown, some county employees may have a tough call to make: Go back to work and collect a paycheck, or stay home and collect even more? When Congress passed emergency legislation to help keep the economy afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, one provision tacked on an […]

All counties still in Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) “red” lockdown phase will move into the “yellow” hybrid phase of economic reopening in two weeks, including all four of the Delaware Valley counties around Philadelphia. The move will result in the most significant reopening of economic activity in the Delaware Valley since the governor issued his sweeping […]

    This week’s edition of the Delaware Valley Journal podcast features cameo appearances by Montgomery County Chairwoman Dr. Valerie Arkoosh and State Senator Andy Dinniman, along with plenty of analysis of the week in politics from DVJ Editor Todd Shepherd. Hosted by Michael Graham of InsideSources.