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Philly Parking Authority resumes ticketing thousands of cars parked in street sweeping lanes
Six weeks after Philadelphia resumed street cleaning on major corridors, the parking authority has issued nearly 1,900 cleaning-related tickets.
5 years ago
Councilmember Parker introduces bill to cut Philly parking taxes
Councilmember Cherelle Parker says the bill would help encourage drivers to come back into the city for events. Some argue that isn’t a good thing.
5 years ago
Delaware State cancels $730,000 in student debt
Recent Delaware State graduates will have more than $3,200 of their outstanding debt canceled by the university to offset financial hardships related to COVID-19.
5 years ago
Bill to raise income taxes on wealthiest Delawareans stalls
Delawareans with an income of $1 million a year pay taxes at the same rate as someone whose salary is $60,001.
5 years ago
No, you are not imagining it. Prices for a lot of things did jump in April
Consumer prices rose 4.2% last month from a year earlier as companies struggled to source critical raw materials and as the gov't pumped trillions of dollars into the economy.
5 years ago
Jeff Yass, the richest man in Pa., is single handedly keeping school choice PACs flush
Montgomery County billionaire Jeff Yass, a professional gambler turned powerful Wall Street trader, has long been a major donor to conservative causes in Pennsylvania.
5 years ago
Weak jobs report could spur, slow Biden’s huge money package
The employment report failed to show that the economy was accelerating forward, so much as it appeared to be stutter-stepping along as the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1%.
5 years ago
Unemployed Pennsylvanians demand benefits amid growing backlog of claims
Protesters, including Democratic state lawmakers, called on the Wolf administration to pay unemployment benefits to hundreds of thousands of residents.
5 years ago
Pa. GOP wants to restore work-search rule for jobless benefits
Lawmakers suspended the work-search requirement through 2020 amid the pandemic last year, and Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, extended the waiver administratively into this year.
5 years ago
Philadelphia developer has big plans for Atlantic City’s Showboat
“We're going to be the first true year-round family resort in Atlantic City."
6 years ago
Pennsylvania promises quicker, easier jobless claims system
It arrives after a series of bungled efforts to replace the system began in 2006 and culminated in a 2017 lawsuit that is still being fought in court.
6 years ago
Philly pols eye wage and business tax cuts ahead of next city budget
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Councilmember Allan Domb are mulling competing tax cut proposals.
6 years ago
Even with pretax profits, many big companies pay zero U.S. tax
The 55 companies named in the report issued Friday cross many industries, from agriculture to high tech, and they include such big names as Nike and Duke Energy.
6 years ago
Pa. utility shutoffs resume on April 1. Here’s what you can do if you owe
On April 1, utility companies in Pennsylvania can resume terminations of non-paying customers, as the annual winter shutoff moratorium lifts.
6 years ago
Here’s how a long shutdown of the Suez Canal might roil the global economy
One of the world's largest container ships is solidly lodged in the Suez Canal, blocking billions of dollars' worth of commerce each day.
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