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By: Scott Detrow Governor Rendell wants the General Assembly to legalize video poker in bars as quickly as possible, and utilize t ...

Advocates for a single-payer health system are gathering in Philadelphia Saturday to promote their path toward universal health coverage. ...

The clock is ticking on a contract between SEPTA and roughly 5,000 operators and mechanics. Today SEPTA officials and Transport Workers U ...

Pennsylvania’s commitment to the arts is mostly remaining steady. But local advocates are trying to make sure state representatives ...

As the city searches for ways to address the budget crisis, grumbling is increasing over the city’s ten year tax abatement. A new C ...

Philadelphia has an important jazz history, having launched the careers of John Coltrane and Philly Joe Jones. More recently, the experim ...

One hundred twenty New Jersey troopers are fighting to work past the mandatory retirement age of 55. The troopers have filed a lawsuit ag ...

By: Tom MacDonald Philadelphia-area schoolteachers got a unique learning experience today in one of Philadelphia City Hall’s ...

Philadelphia City Councilmembers want to make sure the crisis in the newspaper industry doesn’t make them obsolete. Phi ...

Feel like the only economic news these days is “bad news?” Dave and Frank find out if all this doom and gloom is affecting th ...

The 2nd Annual Philly Beer Week kicks off today with Mayor Nutter once again tapping the first keg. But this year, he’ll be doing i ...

Nine convicts were released from Pennsylvania prisons when DNA evidence proved them innocent. Now the state will launch its own “In ...