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As the Philadelphia Zoo kicks off its 150th year, activists seeking improved conditions for the zoo’s two remaining elephants are s ...

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter wants to increase the sales tax by one cent. But the tax hike requires state approval. Phil ...

AIG dishes out some big bonuses to their executive staff this week. But what do Americans think of the insurance giant and the decision? ...

By: Tom MacDonald SEPTA is expecting close to $200 million in federal stimulus money. That will mean work for hundreds of people, ...

Mayor Nutter is relying on revenue from many sources in the coming years to balance the city budget. Property tax increases, sales tax i ...

By: Tom MacDonald There was an interesting guest at Thursday’s Philadelphia budget address. A former mayor, now firmly entr ...

Used to be once you were a sculptor, you were always a sculptor; once a photographer, always a photographer. But these days artists are m ...

By: Scott Detrow Museums throughout Pennsylvania claim they’re another victim of proposed budget cuts. Governor Rendell wan ...

The budget that Delaware Governor Jack Markell unveiled yesterday featured the kind of spending cuts and tax hikes that every state is de ...

Now that the Tyler School of Art has moved into Philadelphia with the rest of the Temple campus, its students have decided it’s tim ...

By: Tom MacDonald and Elizabeth Fiedler The budget proposed by Mayor Nutter today is a difficult pill to swallow for many if not a ...

Former state Senator Vincent Fumo was back in court today to fight the government’s efforts to seize more than $4 million in assets ...