Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is set to receive the 2009 Liberty Medal for his artistic and humanitarian achievements. Former President Bill Clinton will present the medal to Spielberg at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia tonight at 6:30 p.m.
The event will be broadcast live by local ABC television station WPVI Channel 6, and a live Internet [...]

Sugarhouse is planning a Thursday, Oct 8th 3:00 pm official ground breaking ceremony for what will likely be the first of two major casinos in Philadelphia. The other planned casino Foxwoods has a license to build along the Delaware River in South Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Councilmen Frank DiCicco and Darrell Clarke, and other elected [...]

Pennsylvania and Delaware’s slots-only casinos are going to be adding table games in the future. Last week, the Pennsylvania legislature and the Governor agreed to a budget that would expand gambling in the form of blackjack and poker tables. Delaware added the games in May. Atlantic City is already on the offensive boasting on billboards [...]

The Philadelphia Daily News ran a story this morning headlined “Looks like it’s back to South Philly for Foxwoods casino.” Holy cow! Are we going to go through another round of noisy protests? It was one year ago when Foxwoods announced it was willing to consider building its slots-only casino in the Market East Gallery [...]

A bill granting Philadelphia the ability to impose a temporary one-percent sales tax and defer its pension contributions passed the Pennsylvania Senate this afternoon by a 38 to 9 vote.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter issued this statement tonight.
The main goal of this legislation is to provide $700 million in financial recovery for Philadelphia through a temporary [...]

Updated: 1:50 p.m. Associated Press reports a federal appeals court has ruled that a plan to offer sports betting in Delaware would violate a federal ban. The plan was opposed by the professional sports leagues and the NCAA. The ruling came Monday after a three-judge panel in Philadelphia heard almost two hours of arguments from [...]

Let’s make all elected officer holders take lie detector tests. Whad’ya think Philly?
The idea was proposed yesterday by an influential Republican political consultant who was speaking to a New Jersey Assembly policy committee discussing political corruption. George Dredden says that if all political candidates and elected office holders were required to take lie detector tests [...]

Former CBS3 anchor and all around drama queen Alycia Lane has landed on her feet. She was fired in January 2008 after being charged with assaulting a New York police officer. Those charges were later dropped. Lane has been hired by the NBC affiliate KNBC in Los Angeles as weekend anchor and general assignment reporter.
On [...]

Laying the blame squarely on the the Pennsylvania Legislature, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter announced more budget cuts yesterday. The reason the city’s fiances are tied to the state is because Philadelphia is already operating in the new fiscal year and it was counting on state approval of a city sales tax hike. Nutter says every [...]

A new survey of geo-tagged pictures loaded on Flickr shows that Independence Hall/Liberty Bell is the most photographed spot in the city. You might say, Duh, but this kind of survey could become more useful as geo-tagging in digital cameras and cell phones becomes more standard. Imagine the boon this kind of data will be [...]