Shale Gas Conference in Center City Philadelphia Draws Protesters
Outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, several hundred people gathered for a rally demanding an end to "fracking."
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Outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, several hundred people gathered for a rally demanding an end to "fracking."
If you walk into a retail store today, there's a good chance you will see a Christmas display. Retailers are hoping to maximize sales by getting an extra early jump this year.
The future of the City of Atlantic City was the subject Wednesday of a New Jersey Assembly committee hearing.
Tom Raftery has now been given the duties and responsibilities of a "senior" manager, but some commissioners are balking over moves to adjust his salary from $130,000 to $165,000.
The joint venture between Sunoco and the investment firm The Carlyle Group keeps the refinery and its 850 jobs alive.
A new study released by the Pew Charitable Trusts finds that Philadelphia is becoming more competitive in terms of local taxes when compared to the suburbs.
How soon? "Very shortly is, literally, very shortly," the mayor says.
"Court I was an affordable apartment (rental) complex, where Court II is an affordable home ownership complex," says the head of the Nicetown Community Development Corp.
"Now, I can expand. I can probably go after some food contracts. Before I couldn't do that," said one woman with a mail-order cake business.
"It's an extremely broad and crude attempt to scare the patient into not commenting," says health law expert Barry Furrow.
Eleanor Gesensway, who had led the original effort to save the building in the '80s, called the proposal "a travesty" that "desecrates the honesty of the building."
"No one really knows what it's worth," says an official of the auction company, "but by putting it up for auction, exposing it to the market, we let the buyers tell us."
The tribe, which owns casinos in the Poconos and in Connecticut, now has a 10-percent stake in Atlantic City's first gambling hall.
In addition, 14 staffers previously demoted are being restored to supervisory positions.
"We found that constitutionally we can have a two-tiered tax system, so we believe that the more you owe, the higher the penalties should be," Darrell Clarke said.
