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Top city leaders, including planners and hospitality officials as well as small business people gathered this week to discuss the state of Philadelphia. They were looking for "transformative ideas' to impact jobs and the quality of life in the city.
The beautiful weather has more diners seeking sidewalk tables and more restaurants putting them out - sometimes at the expense of pedestrians.
There are some jobs in this "jobless recovery," if you know where to look.
Three years out of college and feeling secure about her job, Stephanie Pincus is sure this is the right time to buy.
Buying your first home can be a very exciting time, but it can also cause a lot of anxiety -- especially when it comes to the application process for securing a mortgage.
"Six-twenty was a high credit score four to five years ago -- it was a good one," notes one mortgage expert. "Today, purchasers are getting penalized even if they have a 700 credit score."
In foreclosure sales, short sales, and similar tranactions, you could be getting some problems you didn't count on.
Hat shops in the area have been doing a brisk business for the royal wedding.
Acme Markets is laying off 900 of its 14,000 employees in our region. The 900 workers, all part-timers, are being laid off at the supermarket chain's 117 stores in the area.
A handful of budgets were shot down in Camden and Gloucester counties, but in Burlington County, 17 of the 39 district proposals were rejected.
As US Airways management and its flight attendants get ready to go to mediated contract talks next month, informational picketing by flight attendants was going on at Philadelphia International Airport.
You used to be able to apply for passports or get information on wills and powers of attorney at the Camden County Store at the Cherry Hill Mall. Not anymore.
Folks who sign up for "half-off" discount programs at local eateries offered by CBS Philly, Group-on and other organizations should know that under Pennsylvania law, alcoholic beverages don't qualify for the discount.
Senators Bob Casey and Pat Toomey toured the Philadelphia Navy Yard yesterday afternoon to get a first-hand account on jobs being created there.
Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett has signed into a law a bill repealing a requirement that sprinklers be included in new homes built in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
