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Pa. State Police troopers stretched like rubberband
The pinch on the Pennsylvania State Police isn’t letting up any time soon, in spite of the governor’s plan to put another 380 ...
14 years ago
Should Philly use gaming money to lower property taxes?
Should Philadelphia’s gaming revenue be used to lower property taxes? Since Mayor Michael Nutter is ...
14 years ago
Chestnut Hill’s Herbiary loses ground in variance support battle
The dispute over a use variance request made by a Chestnut Hill herb shop’s owners and neighbors of the site where they hold classe ...
14 years ago
U Penn’s head of smoking treatment says no-hire rule for smokers is ‘regressive’
The head of the University of Pennsylvania’s smoking treatment program said the health system’s new policy not to hire smoker ...
14 years ago
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia queried on 2024 Olympics
The U.S. Olympic Committee wants to know if Pittsburgh or Philadelphia might be interested in hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics. Th ...
14 years ago
5th District: Roxborough TD Bank targeted twice by same robber in a week
This list covers Feb. 11 to Feb. 17 Feb. 11 2 a.m. Theft: 500 block of Conarroe St. Car title and re ...
14 years ago
Fire-struck Mount Airy property sold 20 months later
A vacant Mount Airy property deemed “a blight on the community” by neighbors was sold Wednesday in a Philadelphia tax sale.&n ...
14 years ago
Suspect in two through-the-wall Germantown burglaries arrested
Germantown’s hole-in-the-wall bandit is now in a hole of a different sort. On Wednesday, Philadelphia Police announced the a ...
14 years ago
Poll knocks N.J.’s Senator Menendez
A new poll shows that allegations against U.S. Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey are having an impact on voters. Menendez is unde ...
14 years ago
What’s next for Revel and A.C. casinos?
Atlantic City’s latest and glitziest casino is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after nearly a year spent trailing the rest of the ...
14 years ago
Kane pleads for money for Pa. attorney general’s office
The Pennsylvania attorney general is asking state lawmakers for a $12 million budget boost. About a week after Attorney General Ka ...
14 years ago
Health secretary pushing Obamacare in Philly
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services visited Philadelphia today to talk about implementing the next phase of “Obamacare. ...
14 years ago
Philly City Council gets good budget update
The city’s chief money people report to Philadelphia City Council this week during budget hearings. ...
14 years ago
Bowles speaks in Philly as Washington stares at sequester — what would you ask him?
It is a fitting time for Erskine Bowles to be in Philadelphia. He and his fellow co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Respo ...
14 years ago