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Archives: Articles

Keystone Crossroads

Shamokin votes to apply for Act 47

This city in the middle of coal country may join a growing list of those in Act 47. Harrisburg is already in the program for distr ...

12 years ago

 Public Works Director Mike Gable says 550 of the city's 1042 miles of roadway need attention. This spring and summer, they'll tackle 40 miles.  (Photo via Flicker by artnoose)
Keystone Crossroads

What can you do with $1.8 million? Repave 11 miles of Pittsburgh streets

With $1.8 million, you could buy half a million Big Macs, 3,500 iPad Airs or four Lamborghinis. Or you could use it to repave an addition ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Greening Stanton eyes stormwater management funds

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

April 29: $70m reno for 401 N. Broad | Cheesecake Factory demo | OpenDataPhilly overhaul | Parking meter hikes | Clarke talks PGW sale, affordable housing

12 years ago

Philadelphia newspaper saga is a cautionary tale around the U.S.

Philadelphia’s major newspapers are back in their own headlines now that a judge has ruled that they be sold at a private auction w ...

12 years ago

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 New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin (Phil Gregory/for NewsWorks)

$100 million for N.J. open space, but environmental chief pressed for long-range funding

New Jersey lawmakers are pressing the Christie administration to come up with a long-term plan to preserve open space. About $100 ...

12 years ago

 The American Association of Blacks in Energy and Hispanics in Energy hosted a conference Monday in Philadelphia geared toward diversifying the oil and gas sector, including a panel discussion with members of the industry. (Katie Colaneri/for NewsWorks)

Most drillers ignore Pa. law requiring inclusion of firms run by minorities, women

Pennsylvania’s natural gas producers have largely ignored a state law requiring efforts to include businesses owned by minorities, ...

12 years ago

 This composite image taken from  HollabackPhilly's website shows an ad from Visit Philadelphia (left), and a contrasting bus shelter ad at 16th and JFK (right) running as part of HollabackPhilly's April 2014 anti-street harassment ad campaign.

Echoing tourism ad, HollabackPhilly respectfully disagrees with approach

A Philadelphia nonprofit aimed at stopping catcalls and other unwanted comments in public has a new target: the city’s tourism corp ...

12 years ago

 State and local officials cut the ribbon on the brand new, 180-room Westin hotel. (Shana O'Malley/for NewsWorks)

Westin hotel opens on the Wilmington Riverfront [video]

Officials today cut the ribbon on the Westin hotel on the Riverfront, the first new hotel to come to downtown Wilmington in 30 years. ...

12 years ago

(Ross D. Franklin/AP File Photo)

Research says patients with neurological disorders get mixed results from medical marijuana

Patients in New Jersey, Delaware and nearly half the states have access to medical marijuana, but is the drug actually reducing their sym ...

12 years ago

 Judy Foster is regional director of the American Adoption Congress. ({Phil Gregory/for NewsWorks)

N.J. strikes deal on opening birth records to adoptees

After more than 30 years of pressure to open birth records to adoptees in New Jersey, state lawmakers and the Christie administration hav ...

12 years ago

In Pa. governor’s race, Schwartz continues to jab at Wolf over loan

Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Allyson Schwartz isn’t satisfied with opponent Tom Wolf’s responses to questi ...

12 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Smackdown in Philly-suburban congressional race

As four Democrats running for the open seat in Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District gather for a debate in Northeast Philadel ...

12 years ago

Philly Parking Authority seeks rate hike for city meters — with proceeds destined for schools

Parking meter rates could be going up in Philadelphia — and no one testified against the idea at a City Council hearing. The ...

12 years ago

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 Runners race around the track at Franklin Field for the 2014 Penn Relays. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

Scenes from the 120th anniversary of Penn Relays [photos]

During the last full week of April, Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus transforms into a huge machine with more than ...

12 years ago

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