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Local advocates upset by cuts to food stamp program
It’s a win for cash-strapped states across the country, but a loss for people who receive food stamps, and local advocates are worr ...
15 years ago
State revokes license for Woods Services residential facility
Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare today revoked the operating license for a Woods Services residential facility in Langho ...
15 years ago
Bracing for Delaware’s sea level rise
Delaware’s environment secretary has called for a new planning policy that takes into account sea level rise from global climate ch ...
15 years ago
Pa. & N.J. await passage of Medicaid funding
The same federal funding that Pennsylvania says it needs to balance its budget is also needed for the same thing in New Jersey. Unl ...
15 years ago
On Tuesday Mayor Michael Nutter called for an end to the DROP retirement incentive program. The program costs the city more than $20 mil ...
15 years ago
A 24-year old summer science camp for kids is drawing thousands of children across the Delaware Valley indoors. ...
15 years ago
Prison officials killed in 1973 honored
Two heroes from Philadelphia’s prisons who were killed more than a quarter century ago got a fitting memorial today at the scene of ...
15 years ago
Juvenile lifers could get a 2nd chance
Pennsylvania has more juvenile lifers than any other state. The term refers to convicts serving life without parole for crimes committed ...
15 years ago
A city-wide show and tell is being planned for Philadelphia. For ten years, First Person Arts has encouraged people to stand in front of ...
15 years ago