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Government Accountability

The revamped Germantown Special Services District has been called to order

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NSA leaker Snowden weakens U.S. efforts against terrorism

It was foreseeable when Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong and Moscow that all the secrets he was carrying on his four laptops would fall i ...

13 years ago

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The full rundown on the ‘Ready for Next Time?’ forums about the Shore after Sandy

In an earlier post, I told you about a series of community forum ...

13 years ago

 A bulldozer on Long Beach Island moves sand to restore the dunes that were swept away by Hurricane Sandy. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Ready for next time? Rethinking the Jersey Shore after Sandy

This post is updated now with the full list of forums.  For the last year, a horde of Jersey Shore property owners ...

13 years ago

What’s wrong with our tax system and IRS?

As a law student in the 1970’s, I studied tax law under Stanley Surrey, a former Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy under President ...

13 years ago

 Still from a commercial paid for by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, vocal opponents of state liquor store privatization.

Political ads show entrenched sides of liquor privatization debate

While it’s unclear whether the Pennsylvania legislature will vote to do away with the state store system, the contending forces in ...

13 years ago

 Both sides of same-sex marriage debate eagerly await Supreme Court ruling (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo, File)

Both sides of same-sex marriage debate eagerly await Supreme Court ruling

This week, the Supreme Court will issue its decision in a high-profile case challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Also called ...

13 years ago

 Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett (AP Photo, file)

Pa Governor’s race now “leaning Democratic,” analyst says

One of the nation’s leading political analysts has changed his rating of next year’s Pennsylvania governor’s race  ...

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12th Amendment celebrates 209th birthday

The 12th Amendment, which combines a party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates onto one ticket, turned 209 this weeken ...

13 years ago

NSA leaks by Edward Snowden threaten constitutional self-government

Since its earliest days, the United States of America has been a great experiment testing whether a free people are capable of governing ...

13 years ago

N.J. ‘Dream Act’ faces hurdles to passage

Young immigrants in New Jersey are pushing the state Legislature to take up a version of the federal Dream Act by the end of the month. ...

13 years ago

Supreme Court issues decisions on voter identification and prices of generic drugs

The Supreme Court issued two decisions today that will effect voter identification at elections and the prices of generic drugs. < ...

13 years ago

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Whose prying is more worrisome — NSA or Facebook?

“You have zero privacy. Get over it.” That’s not me talking. That was Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun Micr ...

13 years ago

65% of likely Pa. voters support immigration overhaul, poll shows

In Washington, senators are debating an overhaul of the American immigration system. In Philadelphia, supporters of comprehensive ...

13 years ago

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Government Accountability

Sizing up a flurry of blight and delinquency legislation

13 years ago

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