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Cheyney University President Dr. Aaron Walton speaks at the 2019 Philadelphia UNCF Mayor’s Masked Ball. (Ronald Gray/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Higher Education
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity
The Philadelphia Tribune

Cheyney, Lincoln universities receive awards from UNCF

The United Negro College Fund recently announced that it has awarded Cheyney University and Lincoln University, two of the nation’s oldest historically black universities.

7 years ago

Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. on the Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
Politics
PA Post

Winners and losers in Pa.’s $34 billion state budget package

Below is a look at who stands to win and lose from the budget package, if it gets back on track.

7 years ago

Kris Singh, center, the founder, president and CEO of Holtec International. The company was granted the second-largest tax break in state history, but officials placed a hold on the break following our reporting. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
New Jersey
Taxes
ProPublica

A huge tax break went to a politically connected company in New Jersey despite red flags

Holtec told N.J. regulators that Ohio was competing for its new headquarters. Officials there stripped the firm of past tax awards for failing to create the jobs it promised.

7 years ago

Immigration activists rally outside the Supreme Court as justices hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania

Funding for census outreach is unnecessary, GOP tells Wolf

The money would help track hard-to-count people: for instance, elderly residents who might have a hard time with the census's new online form, or people don't speak English.

7 years ago

Holtec International building
Business
Government Accountability
New Jersey

N.J. agency asks tax break recipients for more information after allegations of abuse

The N.J. Economic Development Authority has the power to reduce, suspend, or terminate tax breaks if companies misled regulators on their applications.

7 years ago

(Scott LaMar/WITF)
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Groups criticize Pa. budget shifting $10 million from environmental fund

Sixteen environmental groups sent a letter to Wolf and legislators Tuesday decrying the transfer of $10 million out of the state’s Environmental Stewardship Fund.

7 years ago

House Minority Leader Frank Dermody said it is
Pennsylvania
Politics

Don’t discuss minimum wage, GOP speaker tells Dems during Pa. budget debate

The state House passed the main spending bill for its proposed budget Tuesday afternoon — a major step toward getting a plan finalized by the June 30 deadline.

7 years ago

Gov. John Carney signed Delaware’s $4.45 billion budget Tuesday afternoon in his Dover office. (Courtesy of Carney staff)
Delaware
Politics

Delaware approves $4.45 billion budget to better support education for low-income kids

The Delaware General Assembly approved Gov. John Carney’s $4.45 billion operating budget that includes new spending on education, social services and state workers.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa.
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania
Politics

Pa. lawmakers cosign $34 billion budget, but negotiations aren’t over

Pennsylvania House Republicans have started moving the main spending bill for next year's state budget, and it seems likely the Senate and Governor Tom Wolf will support it.

7 years ago

Gur Kimchi, vice president of Prime Air, talks about Amazon's drone delivery service. Federal officials recently approved a patent for the company to explore allowing its drones to provide
NPR
Business
Technology

Amazon explores having its drones provide ‘home surveillance’ for customers

The tech giant is moving closer to a future in which customers order drones to hover around a home and scan for things like a garage door left open or a broken window.

7 years ago

In this Wednesday, June 19, 2019, photo, a visitor to Herald Square takes a photo with the Pride and Joy window display at the Macy's flagship store in New York. For Pride month, retailers across the country are selling goods and services celebrating LGBTQ culture. Macy’s flagship store is adorned with rainbow-colored Pride tribute windows, set in the same space as its famous Christmas displays. (Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)
Business
LGBTQ

A retail rainbow: Vendors mark LGBTQ Pride on sales racks

Not everyone praises the Pride merchandising, which some see as thinly disguised corporate promotion.

7 years ago

Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania
Politics

Pa.’s year-end surplus is official. But it won’t last long.

The IFO said that the commonwealth can count on ending the year with $910 million to spare. But the number dwindles when factoring in the amount the state overspent.

7 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Julio Cortez/AP Photo, File)
New Jersey
Politics

Murphy says he’s reviewing budget but will meet deadline

Whether the Democrat will sign the spending bill the Democrat-led Legislature sent him Thursday or use his line-item veto remained murky Friday.

7 years ago

(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Politics
Billy Penn

Convicted ex-sheriff won’t get a pension, saving taxpayers $1.6 million

The Philadelphia Board of Pensions and Retirement has decided to terminate former Sheriff John Green’s city pension, which he accrued over more than two decades in office.

7 years ago

This June 1, 2018, file photo, shows a housing unit in the west section of the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix in Collegeville, Pa. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Technical parole violations cost Pa. about $100 million a year, report finds

A new report estimates that Pennsylvania is spending about $100 million a year to house inmates for technical parole violations, such as missing curfew or failing a drug test.

7 years ago

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