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Personal Finance with Jeff Brown: Avoiding the tax hit while balancing your porfolio

By: Jeff Brown Many people find it necessary to shift their retirement asset allocation from bonds to stocks or vice versa but thi ...

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Gitmo attorneys pleased by Obama’s order

President Obama’s executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center is good news to some Philadelphia-based attorneys wh ...

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Making NJ’s energy sources more efficient could be costly

By: Mary Fuchs PSE&G says it will cost more than 800 million dollars to make New Jersey’s energy sources more efficient. ...

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Working to minimize wind turbine dangers

By: Scott Detrow With the Obama administration pushing for more alternative energy, many are predicting that wind turbine construc ...

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PA comes down hard on smoking ban violators

Within Philadelphia’s boundaries, city law dictates where smokers can light up. Outside the city – in restaurants, bars, and ...

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Single working moms still have time to spend with their family

University of Maryland sociologists have found single working moms aren’t doing too badly when it comes to spending quality time wi ...

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The Dead rising again at the Spectrum

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

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Gunshot victim carjacks elderly man

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Port Authority back to funding economic development

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

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Pharmaceutical industry could face lower prices

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

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Brady bans “Made in China” souvenirs from Capitol gift shop

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 ...

18 years ago

Councilman: Get satellite dishes off roofs

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 ...

18 years ago

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