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Jane Pepper talks about the Philadelphia Green project
Jane Pepper is the woman credited with making the Philadelphia Flower Show a success.This past March, the show attracted more than 250,00 ...
17 years ago
PA Gov pushing for statewide income tax hike
Pennsylvania’s lawmakers are wrestling with a huge budget deficit and the idea of a tax increase has been held as an option of last ...
17 years ago
N.J. Legislature considers limitations on where sex offenders can live
By: Phil Gregory Just weeks after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled towns can not ban sex offenders from living near where childr ...
17 years ago
Phila Art Museum wins award for exhibt in Venice
The Philadelphia Art Museum triumphed in Venice over the weekend when it won a top award for curating the United States pavillion. The Mu ...
17 years ago
Philadelphia Eagles ordered to pay City $8 million
A Philadelphia judge has ordered the Eagles to pay the City $8 million dollars. The ruling is a step toward resolving a continuing financ ...
17 years ago
Commonwealth Court hears Fox Chase Cancer expansion dispute
The fate of a northeast Philadelphia landmark is now in the hands of three state court judges. In testimony yesterday, Fox Chase Cancer C ...
17 years ago
Mid-Atlantic States are warming up to solar panels
Solar energy advocates are in Philadelphia for a multi-day conference on the future of generating more electricity from the sun. ...
17 years ago
Number of homeless children in Philadelphia estimated at 5000
A national report on child homelessness says more than 1.5 million U.S. children each year sleep on the streets, in shelters, cars or cam ...
17 years ago
U.S. Senator Bob Casey criticizes Republican state budget plan
Senator Bob Casey is the latest high-profile Pennsylvania Democrat to blast a budget passed by the Republican-controlled Senate. S ...
17 years ago
Fewer city swimming pools will open this summer
Philadelphia’s city pools are set to start opening on June 23rd. But 27 of the city’s 73 pools aren’t scheduled to open ...
17 years ago
PA House Democrats reject a leaner GOP spending plan
Voting along party lines, the Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee has rejected the budget approved last month by the Republican-c ...
17 years ago