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The failure of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's agenda in the final weeks of the legislature's spring session is another setback for a governor heading toward an election year with abysmal poll numbers.
School Reform Commission chair Pedro Ramos isn't making much comment until the financial picture is finalized.
The state senate favors expanding Medicaid, as provided for under the Affordable Care Act, while House Republicans do not.
This will be the last price increase ever for tokens. That's because by this time next year, Septa predicts, there will be no more tokens.
A SEPTA spokeswoman says the transit agency wasn't expecting the state legislature to approve transportation funding before the end of the state's fiscal year, June 30th.
House Republicans have said "no" to a $2-per-pack cigarette tax in the city, but Nutter isn't ready to throw in the towel on that proposal.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has taken the wraps off an emergency funding proposal intended to raise $140 million for Philadelphia's public schools.
Corbett signed the $28.4 billion Republican-penned spending plan, hours after both the House and Senate voted Sunday to send it to him.
Gov. Tom Corbett said he has completed negotiations with state lawmakers on a rescue package for Philadelphia public schools.
The state Senate on Sunday approved a new budget, while a vote in the House is still pending.
It appears lawmakers will have to work past their scheduled Sunday night recess to finish work on the budget.
Authorities say a woman escaped a rooming house in Bethlehem, Pa. where she was being held captive in a locked bedroom for three weeks.
As re-enacted war raged several miles away, tourists strolled a commercial strip of Gettysburg to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's pivotal battle.
The House back in March passed a liquor privatization bill and now the concept has cleared a major hurdle in the Senate, in the form of an amendment to the House bill passed early Saturday morning.
DVIC is a massive intelligence- gathering outlet for Philadelphia and the five suburban counties. But Mayor Nutter says it is designed to also share information with other "fusion centers," as they are called, in New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
