Hayden Mitman
Lehigh County reporterI’m Lehigh County reporter for LehighValleyNews.com. A graduate of William Allen High School in Allentown and Moravian College in Bethlehem, I was born and raised in the Lehigh Valley. I joined Lehigh Valley Public Media in 2018 and have more than 15 years of experience as a reporter working in television, radio and newspapers. I’m an avid fan of local sports, sci-fi movies, comic books and video games. But my favorite pastime is being a dad and spending time with family.
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The acting head of the state’s Department of Human Services, Meg Snead, visited Bethlehem Wednesday to detail a billion-dollar federal program to help renters in counties with substantial or high levels of transmission of COVID-19, like Northampton County. -
The rapid fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban surprised a lot of Americans.
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Pennsylvania’s largest teachers union, which represents nearly 200,000 teachers and school workers on Monday commended the Pennsylvania Department of Health after it announced a plan to bring free COVID-19 testing and vaccination clinics to schools statewide.
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Northampton County is hoping to help small businesses emerge from the pandemic with a new round of grant funding from the federal government that totals $15 million.
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The Pennsylvania Dept of Aging says the isolation during the pandemic has made seniors more vulnerable to forms of financial abuse so the agency has launched a task force to look into these crimes.
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Gov. Tom Wolf spoke out on June 17 against a Republican-backed election reform bill, calling it an ‘unconstitutional’ attack on voter rights.
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Pennsylvania’s new unemployment claims system launched June 8, replacing a 40-year-old infrastructure.
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This week, Pennsylvania is replacing its 40-year-old unemployment filing process with a new system with the intention of making filing easier and helping untangle a backlog of more than 300,000 claims built up during the pandemic.
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Bethlehem-based OraSure Technologies has received emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration for its long-awaited at-home coronavirus testing kits.
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Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation system is about to undergo an overhaul that includes an entirely new online portal. June 2 is the last day to file a claim before the system shuts down for the upgrade.
