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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
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
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
Listen$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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ListenScenes 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