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By: Tom MacDonald Four of the original members of the Grateful Dead are going on tour. Tickets go on sale this morning and WHYY ...

The Delaware River Port Authority is planning to fund more special projects, after a DRPA committee voted yesterday to use $11 million f ...

Pharmaceutical powerhouse Pfizer is reportedly in talks to acquire rival drug maker Wyeth. What could the deal mean for the medication y ...

By: Tom MacDonald A U.S. Congressman from Philadelphia says he has instituted a ban on foreign made items in the U.S. Capital Gift ...

A city councilman says satellite dishes are ugly and he’s introduced a bill to get them off the fronts of houses. But Federal regul ...

President Obama starts his job at the White House this week and the Gallup poll already has their first job approval rating. How’s ...

Philadelphia’s mural arts program started working in city prisons a decade ago after a heavy blow in city budget cuts. But some of ...

By: Bill Hangley A flurry of new studies suggest that Pennsylvania’s high schools aren’t providing colleges with enoug ...

By: Scott Detrow With a projected budget deficit of more than two billion dollars, Pennsylvania Governor Rendell says layoffs of s ...

By: Mary Fuchs New Jersey’s Department of Education is struggling with budget cuts. And Commissioner Lucille Davy doesn̵ ...

By: Bill Hangley New data from the state department of education show that as many as one in three Pennsylvania high school gradua ...

You can give your two cents about how the city should address its budget problems at four upcoming forums, whose details were just announ ...

By: Tom MacDonald Philadelphia police officers shot two people Tuesday night, bringing the total of civilians shot by officers up ...