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Commonwealth Court judge Robert Simpson is taking a second crack at a challenge to Pennsylvania’s voter ID law. Judge Simpson block ...

Once again, Mitt Romney divides Americans into neat categories and decides our fates. With regard to healthcare, the current system is ju ...

Artist Murray Dessner — Desi to some — ...

With just over a month to go until the Presidential election, volunteers at the Obama campaign’s Organizing for America-PA office c ...

A series of community summits are helping leaders in the public health, business, and non-profit sectors work together to overcome system ...

Ascension of Our Lord parish has reached the end of its days. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has announced the parish at 725 E. W ...

Since 2009, the union representing Philadelphia’s blue-collar workers has been on the job without a contract. That stalemate ...

I’m not proud of this, but yes, I not so briefly considered hoarding bacon in my basement like some survivalist when I heard about ...

Two weeks ago, city officials announced that a statue of Philadelphia’s legendary non-fictional boxer Joe Frazier would soon become ...

The Philadelphia City Planning Commission recently tried out a new tool for stoking civic engagement. The pilot project is over. The resu ...

The owner of an alternative education company says fired employees are to blame for violence at a southeastern Pennsylvania school. < ...

The city of Wilmington extends its agreement with federal prosecutors as part of the FED UP program.  FED UP, which stands for Feder ...

  We can capture the dynamic of the ’12 campaign by simply examining Mitt Romney’s latest misfire. I’m refe ...

Philadelphia Police have arrested two adults in connection to a church burglary that unfolded in Germantown on Monday night. At ar ...

New Jersey Transit has agreed to pay 10 police officers $5.8 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit. The officers, all minorit ...