Carla Christopher, vicar at Union Lutheran Church, is seen on June 12, 2019, at The Parliament Arts Organization in York.
Ed Mahon / PA Post
Carla Christopher, vicar at Union Lutheran Church, is seen on June 12, 2019, at The Parliament Arts Organization in York.
Ed Mahon / PA Post
Fifty years ago this month, riots broke out in the city of York. Two people were killed: a 22-year-old white police officer and a 27-year-old black woman visiting from South Carolina. “There is still a sense of pain that is very current,” Carla Christopher, the vicar at a York church, told me.
Christopher is one of the volunteers with an initiative called the 10,000 Acts of Kindness. She sees the effort as a way to “show that there’s more to us than York at its worst.” A community dinner is scheduled for Sept. 15.
On Thursday evening, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission will host a town hall in another York County community, one the commission says “has worked hard to rehabilitate its reputation as a place that once harbored racism.” The town hall in Hanover, near the Maryland border, was scheduled after racist flyers targeted the borough’s first black mayor, the York Daily Record reports.
PA Post’s Emily Previti explains why the risk for gerrymandering is higher in Pennsylvania than most other states. Emily looked into several factors, including which states give power to independent commissions, political appointee commissions, the legislature or some other entity.
Here are two separate stories about leadership fights for the GOP. WESA’s Chris Potter describes one in Allegheny County. And Politico’s Holly Otterbein describes how some people aren’t happy that Republican Donald Trump’s campaign is stepping into the contest over the next Pennsylvania GOP leader.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and the Republican-controlled General Assembly couldn’t reach an agreement over voting machine funding. And on Tuesday, Wolf announced that he would take action on his own to provide up to $90 million to reimburse counties for 60 percent of their costs to replace voting machines. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Stan Saylor, R-York, criticized the move and said House members are reviewing their legal options.
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