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U.S. judge blocks Trump Administration rule inhibiting unions
The rule would have harmed the bargaining rights of more than 500,000 home healthcare workers in California and several hundred thousand additional workers across the nation.
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School funding in New Jersey back at 1994 levels
A nonpartisan think tank says state funding of New Jersey schools has failed to recover from the Great Recession of 2008 and actually receded to levels seen in the mid-1990s.
6 years ago
Spanish speakers in Pa. faced confused poll workers, lack of interpreters on Election Day
Latino advocacy groups across Pennsylvania said there were only a handful of incidents in which Spanish-speaking voters had trouble with language assistance.
6 years ago
New Jersey’s capital city has tied its 2013 homicide record
Jeremy McTamney, 26, was fatally shot in Trenton on Tuesday, marking the city’s 37th homicide this year.
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Gov. Carney puts new restrictions on indoor dining, gatherings, youth sports in Delaware
Gov. Carney ordered sharp new restrictions, saying the skyrocketing number of coronavirus cases and increasing hospitalizations and deaths forced him to act.
6 years ago
Listen 1:30Penn pledges $100 million to help fix Philly’s schools
Penn, which doesn’t pay property taxes, had been under growing pressure to support Philly’s public schools.
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States plead for more federal help as COVID-19 outbreak worsens
“Every state ... every city is suffering," said one governor. "The federal government is really the only resource that we all have to turn to.”
6 years ago
Philadelphia appoints first-ever Latina city solicitor
Cortes will succeed Marcel Pratt in overseeing the city's 330-employee law department. She currently chairs its litigation group.
6 years ago
Biden filling top White House team with campaign veterans
Biden is drawing from the senior ranks of his campaign and some of his closest confidants to fill out an increasingly diverse White House leadership team.
6 years ago
US casinos recovering from pandemic, but challenges remain
“People are looking for opportunities to escape what is happening around us. Coming to a casino is entertainment, and people still want to be entertained.”
6 years ago
A cheat sheet for the Trump election lawsuits still alive in Pa.
Two weeks after Election Day, President Donald Trump’s campaign is still engaged in bitter litigation over several lawsuits contesting Pennsylvania’s results.
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Sigma Studios, birthplace of the Philly Sound, wins spot on city’s historic register
The Philadelphia Historical Commission voted unanimously to add Sigma Studios to the local Register of Historic Places.
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Senate axes second term for Pa.’s victim advocate, who angered GOP leader
The Republican-controlled Pa. Senate on Monday blocked state Victim Advocate Jennifer Storm from serving another six years in the job
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Safehouse debate in appeals court centers on two sentences in ‘crackhouse statute’
The question of whether the Philadelphia nonprofit can open a supervised injection site comes down to language in the U.S. Controlled Substances Act.
6 years ago
The President-elect met with corporate executives and union leaders and said they must cooperate to resurrect the coronavirus-ravaged economy and create jobs.
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