Virtual school. Shuttered businesses. Mask mandates. “Stay calm, stay home and stay safe.”
Like the rest of the globe, Pennsylvania struggled mightily with a new virus that arrived suddenly and upended daily life, bringing sickness, suffering and death and widening political fault lines.
The coronavirus pandemic, of course, dominated statewide headlines in the annus horribilis that was 2020. But it was far from the only thing that grabbed attention.
Pennsylvania played a starring role in the presidential election, helping to deliver the White House to Joe Biden. And there were widespread racial injustice protests, accompanied by violent unrest, after the police killings of George Floyd in Minnesota and months later, Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia.
A look back at the year’s top Pennsylvania stories — as if anybody could forget:
The pandemic
It came to Pennsylvania in late winter and, with stunning speed, began wrecking lives and…
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