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With Newt Gingrich’s campaign seeming to implode, Chris Satullo asks in this week’s Centre Square commentary,  ...

A bill in the New Jersey legislature would allow taxpayers to make voluntary contributions on their income tax returns to give financial ...

Senator Tom Carper (D-Delaware) got a laugh from the crowd gathered on Courthouse Square in Old New Castle when he said today is the day ...

I’ll be away for a week, on a family vacation. Keep your ear out for my interview on Fresh Air with writer Jim Shepard. He h ...

The National Weather service issued earlier today a flash flood watch for parts of central Pennsylvania, including Adams, Cumberland, Dau ...

There’s something really depressing about watching Philadelphia City Council debate a tax increase to fund the school system. The d ...

The Star-Ledger is reporting that the ramp is ...

Well, that should do it. When most of a presidential candidate’s campaign staff quits on him, saying he’s not taking h ...

The latest turn in U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter scandal appears at first blush to be among the less troubling details to surf ...

The Friends of the Wissahickon began work this week on the Warming Shed at Valley Green Inn. The shed, which is used for horses, bur ...

The Gorgas Park Summer Concert Series takes off this weekend with the King of Rock and Roll.  Now in its 12th year, summer wi ...

A U.S. diplomat recently explained to me why the U.S. went to war in Libya, a country in which the U.S. has no interests at all. The dip ...

Theater performers producing work with little or no money are using the cheapest venues they can find. This week, the SoLow theater festi ...

Lack of access to Philadelphia’s stretch of the Delaware River has long been a source of ire for those who love the water. On Mond ...

Negotiations between the Corbett Administration and 17 unions representing Pennsylvania’s state employees are heating up as the Jun ...