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Companies want in on Pennsylvania’s health exchange
Uninsured and self-insured residents in Pennsylvania may have several plans to choose from in a new online marketplace, or health exchang ...
13 years ago
Education official offers primer on Pa.’s new ‘Common Core’ standards
Corbett administration officials are waging a cleanup campaign to try to dispel some of what they call false claims about new Common Core ...
13 years ago
Princeton schools mandating headgear for soccer, lacrosse, field hockey
Updated August 7, 2013: Take a hard blow to the head diving for that soccer ball? Well, gone are the days o ...
13 years ago
Prevailing wage could be shaved as part of Pa. plan for road, bridge projects
One thorny issue in the debate over road and bridge funding is whether to include reforms to prevailing wage laws, which set higher wages ...
13 years ago
Students show their hard work at Philly’s WorkReady Expo
More than 500 of Philadelphia’s career-minded youth showcased the fruit of their summer jobs and internships Monday at the ...
13 years ago
How will former Sen. Fumo adjust to life on the outside?
Vince Fumo. Remember that name? The one time kingmaker convicted of multiple counts of corruption will be released from priso ...
13 years ago
Food stamp benefits set to dip by $29 a month
Families on the food stamp program known as SNAP will receive an average $29 less each month starting in November. T ...
13 years ago
Philly finance director says Council should move on sales tax; Clarke: Council will OK it
Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke’s office said Monday that legislators will make permanent a 1 percent sales tax ...
13 years ago
Staying positive about our ‘do nothing’ Congress
The Republican Party, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Tea Party Movement, can’t govern, but they can make sure nobody else can gov ...
13 years ago
When the feds nailed Vince Fumo in a massive corruption case, they asked the judge to give him 15 years. The former state senator reports ...
13 years ago