Government & Politics
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Neumann University Senior Working Hard to Make Sure All of Her Fellow Students Have a Chance to Vote
Kaitlyn Tracey, a senior at Neumann University, is on a mission to get her classmates to register and vote in the Nov. 3 election. Tracey has been named a Democracy Fellow by the Campus Vote Project, an organization that works to reduce barriers to student voting and empower them with the information they need to…
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Delaware County Announces 32 Ballot Drop Box Locations for Secure Voting
Delaware County voters now have access to 32 ballot drop boxes distributed around the county. The boxes were set up and open for business Tuesday, Oct. 20. The ballot drop boxes augment traditional Nov. 3 in-person voting and vote-by-mail, both of which are also still available. Voters can securely drop their mail-in ballots into the…
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Check Out How Much Each Presidential Candidate Raised in Campaign Donations in Your ZIP Code
Joe Biden has raised $1.6 million from donors in Philadelphia and the four surrounding Pennsylvania counties, while Trump received $183,738 in the same area, writes Kennedy Rose for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The former vice-president has been favored by the donors in the majority of Delaware County ZIP codes. In ZIP code 19063 in Media,…
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Jill Biden Talks About Importance of Women in Campaign Swing through Swarthmore
Jill Biden made a campaign swing through Swarthmore Thursday, thanking volunteers and speaking with a group of elected female leaders at a small backyard rally, writes Julia Terruso for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jill Biden emphasized the important role Pennsylvania women will play in the upcoming presidential elections. “Women will decide the future of this state,…
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New Delaware County Website Helps Residents Navigate General Election
Voters in Delaware County looking for some straight forward answers to their election year questions can now turn to DELCO VOTES, a comprehensive website set up by Delaware County to educate residents about the 2020 General Election. DELCO VOTES is an updated elections website created to make it easier for voters, candidates, poll workers and…
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Upper Darby Fire Department Has Its First African American Fire Chief
Upper Darby welcomes its first African American fire chief, Derrick Sawyer, the former Philadelphia fire commissioner, writes Maria Panaritis for The Philadelphia Inquirer. His hiring represents an effort to bring the township’s public safety infrastructure closer in line with the diversity of the Upper Darby community. That said, Sawyer, 61, is the only Black man…
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Naked Ballots Will Be Tossed Out, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules
Delaware County Councilwoman Christine Reuther is worried about voters who are voting by mail as they face an unusual presidential election, writes Jonathan Lai for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “For a lot of people, this is going to be their first experience voting by mail,” Reuther. “They didn’t vote absentee, they didn’t vote in the primary,…
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Washington Post: Trump Support Among White Women Voters Has Weakened
Nin Bell from Brookhaven is part of a group of working class White women who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton in the last election but are now determined to vote for Joseph Biden, reports the Washington Post, as reprinted in the Longview News Journal. White women have said in interviews they’re concerned about Trump’s recklessness,…
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Delaware County Seeks Transition Manager to Shift Prison Back to Public Hands
Delaware County is looking for a transition manager and team to turn the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Concord from private hands back to being county-run, writes Alex Rose for the Daily Times. The team would smooth the transition and figure out costs for such a move, said Delaware County Jail Oversight Board Executive…
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Delaware County Lists Voting Options in Upcoming General Election
Delaware County voters will actually have five ways to vote in this year’s General Election. Options to vote in the 2020 General Election: Vote in person at your polling place on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 Vote by mail or absentee ballot – return your Delaware County ballot by US Mail by dropping it at a…
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Here’s How Delaware County Is Doing Responding to the 2020 Census
Delaware County ranks 19th in Pennsylvania on self-response rates for the 2020 Census, with 70.7 percent of residents already having filled out and submitted their forms, writes Jesse Musto for The Morning Call. Out of that number, 59.5 percent of respondents have returned their completed forms through the internet. This switch from traditional methods further…
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Polls Will Be Open in Delaware County on Election Day and Workers Will Be There to Help You Vote
Mail-in ballots will likely dominate this year’s election as people exercise caution in voting, but that doesn’t mean crowds won’t still gather on Election Day, writes Abraham Gutman for The Philadelphia Inquirer. As Delaware County puts out a call for more poll workers Nov. 3, many of the county’s long-time poll workers will be in…
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Local Republicans Fighting Anti-Trump Sentiment in Delaware County
State Sen. Tom Killion (R-9) is traversing a different Delaware County on the campaign trail than the one he walked in 2016, writes Andrew Seidman for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The 9th District was an area Donald Trump easily won in 2016, a solid Republican area. This time, there were more Democrats around and fewer Trump…
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3 School Districts Claim Tax Burden’s Too Heavy for Delaware County Residential Property Owners
The current reassessment of Delaware County property taxes places too much of a burden on residential property owners, claim three school districts, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. Marple Newtown, Radnor Township and Springfield school boards declared that the new 2021 assessments are an “unfair and inequitable shift” of the real estate tax…
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WHYY: Delaware County Intensifies Hunt for Poll Workers, Aiming for Younger Election Day Staff
Following staffing problems that hampered the state’s primary election, Delaware County is intensifying efforts to hire poll workers for the November presidential election, writes Ximena Conde and Zachariah Hughes for WHYY. County officials are focusing on bringing in a new wave of younger poll workers as well as coaxing more senior workers to return to…
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Sorority Sisters Rally for Democratic VP Nominee Kamala Harris
Members of the oldest Black sorority in the country are rallying to champion one of their sisters, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, Sen. Kamala Harris, writes Melanie Burney for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The more than 300,000 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority are raising money for the Biden-Harris campaign and working to get out the vote.…
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Swarthmore Restaurant Owner Scott Richardson Gets His Moment at the Democratic Convention
Swarthmore restaurant owner Scott Richardson got to share his 10 minutes of fame with some heavy hitters Monday– Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, John Kasich, writes Victor Fiorillo for phillymag.com. He had met Democratic presidential nominee Joseph Biden back in June when the candidate visited Delaware County. Now he was being interviewed at the Democratic National…
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Washington Post: Jill Biden a Tough Philly Girl with Graduate Degrees from WCU and Villanova
As a tough “Philly girl” who grew up in a Philadelphia area, Jill Biden, Joe’s wife, has a slight Philadelphia accent and cheers for Philadelphia sports teams, write Jada Yuan and Annie Linskey in The Washington Post. While Jill moved around a lot when she was young, she and her four younger sisters grew up…
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