Atlantic City Casino Workers Stay on the Job Despite Expired Contracts
Even though labor contracts have expired at nine Atlantic City casinos, those hotels and gambling halls remain open as the city's largest union tries to reach accords with them.
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Even though labor contracts have expired at nine Atlantic City casinos, those hotels and gambling halls remain open as the city's largest union tries to reach accords with them.
"We feel very confident that we did exercise the proper discretion and did the right thing," an attorney representing the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said afterward.
Soon, amid the iconic Victorian houses along DeKalb Street near East Elm Street that many of the area's movers and shakers used to call home, will rise a new development that will blend in with the community.
Philadelphia will get $2 million to encourage small business start-ups. The money comes from a new program by the Small Business Administration.
The US Census Bureau reports that in 2010, more than 46 million people were living in poverty -- an increase of 3 million in just one year, and a 27-year high.
Six groups vying to become custodian of an historic US naval cruiser now berthed in Philadelphia have passed the first hurdle in the takeover process.
Valley Forge Casino officials on Monday took reporters and invited guests on a hard-hat tour of the work that's being done on the casino floor at the Valley Forge Convention Center.
On the agenda in Philadelphia City Council this fall: at least two new plans to ease the tax burden for businesses in the city.
Ending a price with 99-cents is a venerable marketing technique that one expert says probably shouldn't extend to everything.
When flames break out, every second counts. No one knows that more than firefighters -- and in Montgomery County, they recently got a look at a new product that claims to prevent a blaze from spreading and aims to save lives.
Sunoco's announcement that it is getting out of the refinery business has residents of Marcus Hook more than a little worried.
The "Philadelphia Collection" -- a celebration of all things fashion -- kicks off next week in center city.
Some local residents may not be able to watch President Obama's address to Congress about his job creation plan tonight because they may be in line trying to get work at a job fair in Bucks County.
Former Pennsylvania governor and industry consultant Tom Ridge says many of the concerns about the environmental and public health impacts of drilling are "phony hysteria."
The Cape May County Department of Tourism routinely surveys some 600 businesses -- everything from souvenir shops to real estate agencies.
