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Christie offers $32.9 billion budget plan, agrees to Medicaid expansion in N.J.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has offered a $32.9 billion state budget aimed at helping the state recover from the destructive force of ...
14 years ago
Online gambling a winner for N.J.?
The New Jersey legislature has cleared the way for legal of online gambling within state borders. But will it bring the economic benefits ...
14 years ago
Bowles peddling fiscal plan days before sequester due to hit
Perhaps unsurprisingly, budget-cruncher Erskine Bowles likes to present his ideas as numbered line items. As in, in the case of th ...
14 years ago
Public Information Matters – Come and get it
I’ve been reporting long enough to remember when I had to call the city personnel office to get a public official’s salary, a ...
14 years ago
Nutter optimistic in speech to Chamber of Commerce
In his address before the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Mayor Michael Nutter offered a bit of a preview of his budget addr ...
14 years ago
Casey, Toomey have widely different perspectives on sequestration
Sequestration is either a legitimate worry or no big deal. That’s the summation of the divergent views of Pennsylvania’s two ...
14 years ago
Court takes up question of arrestee DNA sampling
The Supreme Court will soon decide what one justice called its most important criminal procedure case in decades: whether to allow police ...
14 years ago
5th District: Shurs Ln. sidewalk attack fractures victim’s face
Feb. 18 9:30 a.m. Residential Burglary: 200 block of Hermitage St. $2,000 of copper tubing taken from residence.< ...
14 years ago
Artists collectives joining forces in Philly for City Wide initiative
Nearly a dozen of Philadelphia’s artist groups are banding to together to form a collective of collectives. To be called Cit ...
14 years ago
Is there any property tax relief for renters?
Taxipedia is answering people’s questions about Philadelphia’s property tax reassessment. Today’s question come ...
14 years ago
Wharton and Cisco unveil new ‘connected classrooms’
A floor-to-ceiling projection screen. A handful of wall-mounted TVs. That uneasy feeling of forgetting which coast you̵ ...
14 years ago
Sen. Joe Vitale: New Jersey to expand Medicaid
A New Jersey lawmaker says Gov. Chris Christie has decided to extend Medicaid coverage to more low-income New Jersey adults in a decision ...
14 years ago