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Mayor Nutter endorses Cindy Bass in the Eighth District Council race
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter today endorsed one of the seven Democratic candidates vying to fill the open Eighth District City Counc ...
14 years ago
Early morning closures on Turnpike Sunday
If you had thoughts of speeding up and down the empty Pennsylvania Turnpike early Sunday, this might throw a wrench in your plan. ...
14 years ago
Penn’s ‘Holy Experiment’ mixed principle and business savvy
What might you do if you found yourself with almost 50,000 square miles of seemingly virgin land in a place you have never seen, far from ...
14 years ago
Delaware Job Fair saved with federal budget agreement
Monday’s job fair at the Chase Center in Wilmington WILL go on. That was assured with a budget agreement that kept the federa ...
14 years ago
Worries and woes about federal budget cuts
Just before midnight on Friday, President Obama and elected officials avoided a government shutdown with an ...
14 years ago
Jerry Brown: Why I am a Philadelphia Republican and not a National Democrat
I am a Philadelphia Republican while my neighbors are National Democrats. Whether their affiliation results from an aggressive advertisin ...
14 years ago
Multiple people reported injured in Chester shooting, one dead
Nine people were shot, one person is dead from a shooting at the Minaret Temple in Chester during a birthday party late Friday night, rep ...
14 years ago
Breaking through the blue wall of silence
“The bad apples get right back on the job,” said the woman in a community meeting about police misconduct. “Many [people] are afrai ...
14 years ago
Election apathy a hard one to figure
In one moment last week, I saw both the gloomy downside and the percolating potential of Philadelphia politics. In the last month, ...
14 years ago
Obama’s plan to reduce oil imports is doomed by immigration and population growth
President Obama, probably in response to Republican criticism of rising gasoline prices, recently ...
14 years ago
Curt’s Corner: Aging in a new age
By 2015, The Philadelphia Corporation of Aging estimates, over a third of the population of Philadelphia will be over the age of 55. ...
14 years ago
Update on Temple law faculty vote on ABA tenure requirement for accreditation
For those with interest in this issue, the Standards Review Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Legal Education ...
14 years ago
DEP orders twice monthly testing at public wastewater-treatment centers
Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection wants publicly-owned wastewater-treatment facilities to test for radioactive ...
14 years ago