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 Ken Hutchings, co-owner of Cavanaugh’s Rittenhouse Square, says he remembers the first person to buy a beer in Philadelphia with Bitcoin. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

You can buy a beer in Philly with bitcoins, but is the currency viable?

Tucked into a narrow Sansom Street block in Philadelphia, Cavanaugh’s Rittenhouse Square appears similar to any other sports bar in ...

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 The well head for a gas well is seen in Dimock, Pa. State regulators blame faulty gas wells drilled by Cabot Oil & Gas Corp for leaking methane into the groundwater in Dimock, Pa. It was the first serious case of methane migration related to the Pennsylvania 3-year-old drilling boom, raising fears of potential environmental harm throughout the giant Marcellus Shale gas field. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)

Senior DEP official invested in natural gas industry

For several years a high-ranking official at the state Department of Environmental Protection invested his personal money in the natural ...

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 The largest oil refinery complex on the eastern sea board (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Philly refiner’s push to maintain ban on U.S. crude oil exports goes against trend

In early 2012, the refining business in Southeast Pennsylvania was on life support until a glut of cheap American oil and natural gas rev ...

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 The U.S. government has approved a plan by Gov. Tom Corbett to provide health coverage to an estimated 600,000 Medicaid-eligible Pennsylvanians. Corbett is shown in September introducing his Health PA alternative to Medicaid expansion.(AP file photo)

Pa. businesses will face steeper tax penalties without Medicaid expansion

When originally written, the Affordable Care Act assumed all states would expand Medicaid. But once the U.S. Supreme Court made that opti ...

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 The Comcast Center is a dominant element in Philadelphia's skyline. Comcast plans to build a taller skyscraper in Center City. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

For Philly economy, Comcast tower will be bigger than its 59 floors

Business and civic leaders are welcoming the Comcast Corp. and Liberty Property Trust plans for a $1.2 billion office tower in Philadelph ...

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Comcast plans $1.2 billion building to be tallest in Philly

Comcast Corp. is expanding in a big way in Philadelphia.  The communications giant’s headquarters will expand into ...

12 years ago

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 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. (PRNewsFoto/Local Search Association)

Apple co-founder Wozniak looks back and forges ahead

The Philadelphia Speakers Series resumes Monday evening at the Kimmel Center with a lecture by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak. H ...

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 In this July 22, 2010 file photo, the sign at an entrance for the Horsehead Inc. zinc plant is seen in Monaca, Pa. Shell Oil Co. said in March 2012, it had chosen this site near Pittsburgh for a major new petrochemical refinery that could provide a huge economic boost to the region. Shell Oil Co. is years away from building the petrochemical plant (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo, file)

Shell takes final extension on Pa. site for proposed ethane cracker

Shell Chemical has signed a deal with the owners of a Beaver County industrial site that would give the company more time to decide wheth ...

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 A person passes a retail store with sale sign displayed in the window in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

Shopping season doesn’t end with Christmas

You might think that Christmas day marks the end of the holiday shopping season, but merchants are now used to a post-Christmas surge spu ...

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Online sales help brick-and-mortar stores — on Cyber Monday and all year

Black Friday — and now Cyber Monday — signal the start of the holiday shopping season with a rush for deals at big box stores and maj ...

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 NAACP's Jerry Mondesire gives his support to the Market 8 casino development project because of the project's commitment to economic inclusion. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

African American leaders back Market 8 casino proposal for Philly

The African-American Chamber of Commerce and the Philadelphia NAACP are endorsing one of the plans for Philadelphia’s second casino ...

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 Temple grads invite students to rate off-campus landlords (Screenshot of whoseyourlandlord.com)

Temple grads invite students to rate off-campus landlords

A Philadelphia start-up is inviting students to submit reviews of their off-campus landlords. The team behind the new online site ...

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Pa. deploys action team after Lockheed Martin announces plant closure

Pennsylvania officials are scrambling after news that Lockheed Martin will close a satellite manufacturing facility in Newtown, Bucks Cou ...

12 years ago

Lockheed Martin will close Newtown plant

More than 1,000 people will lose their jobs as Lockheed Martin eliminates a facility in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Spokesman Chip Esch ...

12 years ago

Wynn scraps plans for a Philadelphia casino

Wynn Resorts, headed by casino mogul Steve Wynn has withdrawn it’s proposal to build a casino and 300-room luxury hotel in Philadel ...

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