A Rush On Legislation As Philadelphia City Council Prepares For The End Of The Current Term
Committee hearings this week have advanced some 70 bills for council to vote on before it adjourns December 10.
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Committee hearings this week have advanced some 70 bills for council to vote on before it adjourns December 10.
Details of a budget deal remained fluid yesterday as legislative leaders and Governor Wolf try to end Pennsylvania's five month-old budget stalemate. And now it appears that eliminating some exemptions to the state sales tax is now in play as a possible way to raise new revenue.
Pennsylvania GOP Chairman Rob Gleason says Trump is doing well in polling and that the party's donors would like to hear from him at the $1,000-a-head Commonwealth Club luncheon Dec. 11.
Cable news host Jake Tapper said he sees nothing standing in the way for Donald Trump to win the Republican nomination for President.
A statement posted on his Twitter account Thursday said Trump doesn't know the reporter personally or what he looks like and was only mocking his journalism.
With the state-budget stalemate poised to enter a sixth month, Delaware County is sending a letter to human-services providers, letting them know the county will have to stop paying them effective December 1st, and no further payments will be made until a state budget is passed.
The Philadelphia City Commission has certified the November election results and it's official: Republican Al Taubenberger has defeated incumbent Dennis O'Brien for a City Council-At-Large seat.
New Jersey Lottery officials testified at a legislative hearing in Trenton that a partnership with a private firm to assist in sales and marketing has helped the state, despite revenue figures that are lower than projected estimates.
Author and political columnist Peggy Noonan, while discussing her new book, The Time of Our Lives, said the American people expected a different tone from the President following the Paris terror attack.
Philadelphia Mayor-elect Jim Kenney has named four more cabinet members, including two holdovers from the Nutter administration.
When the governor and legislative leaders agreed to the framework of a budget deal, Wolf said he hoped it would be passed by Thanksgiving. But the governor says the process of finalizing the budget has stalled since that framework was announced earlier this month.
Five months and still no budget agreement in Pennsylvania between Governor Wolf and the legislature. Until that happens, Bucks County officials are vowing to cut the purse strings to Harrisburg.
A new Pennsylvania Senate bill being discussed could spur additional development on Pennsylvania's waterfront land.
A U.S. presidential candidate delivered the keynote speech at a business conference Thursday morning at the University of Pennsylvania.
They are Egyptian, Jordanian, Iraqi - but mostly Syrian. And just under 200 arrived to the Syrian Arab American Charity Association in Allentown to receive food, supplies and medical care.
