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Signs of progress in delinquency fight

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Land Bank bill caught in twilight zone

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 In this photo provided by the Newtown Bee, Connecticut State Police lead a line of children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 after a shooting at the school. Hundreds of children at the school that day survived, but the horrors have been especially difficult to overcome for some of the 6- and 7-year-olds who witnessed the bloodbath, even as the school year resumed in autumn of 2013. (AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks, file)

A year after Newtown, still wondering: What makes a school safe?

It’s been almost a year now. What have we learned since? What have we done since? Just a few days short of one year ago, a m ...

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Senate filibuster rule change doesn’t go far enough. End all filibusters!

Republicans are warning that Democrats will regret their November 21 party-line vote to change rules of the U.S. Senate to permit confirm ...

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 Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane speaks. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

Metcalfe introduces bill to impeach Pa. attorney general

Pennsylvania Rep. Daryl Metcalfe has introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of state Attorney General Kathleen Kane. ...

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Ed and Midge Rendell target kids for civic engagement

Aiming to promote civic involvement among young people, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and the former first lady Midge Rendell have ...

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 The Philadelphia Ethics Board is putting some new rules for giving gifts to city officials up for discussion. (Photo illustration by Kim Paynter/WHYY)

Keeping ethics rules simple and strict is the best path

“Thanks, but sorry, I can’t accept that. Our ethics rules don’t allow it.” Now, was that so hard? Trust me: The pain is mi ...

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Infrastructure

If TIFs are good for Center City hotels, they’re good for schools, too

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Remembering November 22, 1963: the Kennedy assassination

I’m writing down my recollection of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, not because my experience was in any way specia ...

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 A laboratory chemist checks a vial with a urine sample. (AP Photo/Damian Dovargane, file)

Sure, let’s drug test everyone who gets a federal benefit — as long as it’s everyone

Some lawmakers at the federal and state levels are pushing to set up drug testing for anyone getting food stamps. I fully understa ...

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Government Accountability

TIF districts generate less property tax revenue than expected

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 New Jersey is considering offering in-state tuition prices at its public universities to undocumented immigrants. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

N.J. Senate leader says Dream Act vote set for Monday

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney said the full Senate will vote Monday on a bill granting in-state tuition rates to students bro ...

13 years ago

 Geoff DiMasi (left) and David Clayton speak to the crowd during  Ignite Philly at Johnny Brenda's. (Image courtesy of Kevin Monko)

Tea, beer and the Big Bang theory of parenting

It is like, she said, a Big Bang that you hold in your hand. Yes. Having a child, becoming a parent, are like being propelled into a bran ...

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 School protesters and supporters surround Pa. Governor Tom Corbett during his visit to Philadelphia on Thursday, November 7, 2013. (Nathaniel Hamilton/For Newsworks)

Corbett visits Northeast Philly in kickoff of re-election campaign

Gov. Tom Corbett stopped in Northeast Philadelphia as part of a statewide tour to kick off his re-election campaign. “We don ...

13 years ago

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Government Accountability

Council Committee approves $33 million subsidy for W Hotel

13 years ago

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