The Wolf administration won't release details about wasted coronavirus vaccines, citing a decades-old law that gives the state the authority to keep such information private, but which legal experts say also affords officials broad discretion to release it.

The state's Department of Health denied a public records request from Spotlight PA seeking documentation of vaccine doses that providers did not administer because of expiration, damage, or other factors — all information that is gathered by the state. Spotlight PA plans to appeal the decision.

The department counts just 1,589 of the more than 2.3 million doses administered as of Feb. 26 — just .06% — as wasted but won't say if certain providers were responsible for a disproportionate share of that waste.

THE CONTEXT: Pennsylvania's vaccine rollout has seen no shortage of scrutiny, even from Gov. Tom Wolf's political allies.

And while the pace of the effort has quickened significantly in recent weeks, the administration's reluctance to be more forthcoming on the issue of vaccine waste speaks to a broader pattern seen throughout the pandemic — even despite Wolf's public commitment to transparency.

The scrutiny will surely continue, though, with millions of Pennsylvanians still waiting to be vaccinated and Pennsylvania becoming the eighth U.S. state to reach 1 million COVID-19 cases just yesterday.

ON STRIKE: A St. Louis Post-Dispatch correspondent named Olivia Howard Dunbar was sent to Hazleton to cover a massive mine workers strike in 1900. Dunbar's subsequent reporting focused on the importance of women in the labor movement and likely used pseudonyms to protect them from mine owner retribution, Wynning History reports. 

BITTER BITES: Passover starts Saturday and horseradish will be on Seder plates, symbolizing the bitterness Jews experienced as slaves in Egypt. The commercial horseradish industry came much later, taking root in the mid-19th century in places like Pittsburgh, where a future ketchup magnate named Henry J. Heinz bottled his first batch in 1869, per the Post-Gazette.

KID YOU NOT: Philadelphia's homemade pop-tarts scene is further proof that the fancification of unfancy foods is a genre without boundaries. The city's got fig-apple-rosemary ones, strawberry-champagne ones, and savory versions with potatoes, leeks, or turkey, stuffing, and gravy, The Inquirer reports.

WATCH PARTY: Pennsylvania wildlife are content creators, too. At any given time, cameras are broadcasting live shots of Pennsylvania eagles, falcons, elk, and bears around the world — often with NSFW disclaimers. The Morning Call has a roundup of seven Pennsylvania wildlife cams worth watching.

FIREBALL: Luckily all the cameras were still awake at 12:30 a.m. on Sunday when a meteor streaked across the skies of Pennsylvania. The American Meteor Society received at least 263 reports from more than a dozen states and a number of impressive videos from ours, via Lehigh Valley Live.