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$27.7 billion budget moves toward final vote in Pa.
Now that lawmakers in the Pennsylvania House have endorsed a Republican-negotiated $27.7 billion budget, the spending plan will move to t ...
14 years ago
Muscle cars revving up for Philly exhibit
We don’t even know what some of these cars can do. In the 1960s and ’70s, the big three American automobile manufactur ...
14 years ago
Northwest Philadelphia residents and officials react to health care ruling
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold health care reform with a 5-4 vote. Under the individual mandate, nearly all Americans woul ...
14 years ago
Disappointed over AVI failure, Nutter notes positives of City Council budget
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says he’s not wild about the budget sent to him by City Council, but says it has some good points ...
14 years ago
In the series “Teen Sanctuaries,” Philly Youth Radio asked students to show us their safe spaces. ...
14 years ago
Delaware General Assembly down to the wire
Delaware’s new operating budget has passed both houses of the General Assembly a full 53 hours before the start of Fiscal Year 2013. ...
14 years ago
Nutter team wasn’t ready on Philadelphia property tax plan
I got a complaint last week when I wrote about the city’s failure to adopt a proposed overhaul of the property tax system, and I sa ...
14 years ago
Photos from the Hezekiah Jones concert in Pastorius Park
The band Hezekiah Jones performed Wednesday night in Pastorius Park in the Ches ...
14 years ago
ACA decision leaves health consumers with more questions
About 20 faculty members and students gathered around a conference table at the ...
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Philadelphia Orchestra on its way out of bankruptcy
The Philadelphia Orchestra is about to be on the nicer side of bankruptcy. The orchestra was granted approval in bankruptcy court ...
14 years ago
Bill ‘El Wingador’ Simmons: Jail time was ‘life-changing experience’
A week and a half in jail was all Bill Simmons needed to convince him of his greater purpose. Simmons, who goes by “El Winga ...
14 years ago
Supreme Court’s ACA ruling opens next chapter to fix nation’s health care woes
The Affordable Care Act of 2010, one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation ever presented to the American people, stood to profoundl ...
14 years ago
Former N.J. attorney general’s nomination advances
A former New Jersey attorney general’s nomination to become a judge cleared a hurdle Thursday. The Senate Judiciary Committ ...
14 years ago
A patient responds to Supreme Court’s health care decision
In a landmark decision the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 to uphold the Affordable Care Act on Thursday morning. Cartoonist Tony Auth i ...
14 years ago
Friends of Jenks will appear at tonight’s CHCA meeting
The newly created fundraising arm of the J.S. Jenks Home and School Association will provide an update on its efforts to the full board o ...
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