Mayor Nutter Makes First Stop on Public Schools 'Listening Tour'
His visit to George Washington High School, on Bustleton Avenue in the Northeast, was the first of four around the district.
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His visit to George Washington High School, on Bustleton Avenue in the Northeast, was the first of four around the district.
Without offering much in the way of concrete evidence that their community is safer, Norristown police say they are working closely with the DA's office, the sheriff's department, and Septa police to create a more visible police presence on the streets.
Three of the four Democrats seeking to replace the outgoing Allyson Schwartz in Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District took part in a debate in Rhawnhurst last night.
Under the order, smoking is prohibited in more than 125 Philadelphia neighborhood parks, including dozens in the sprawling Fairmount Park system, totalling 11,000 acres of public space.
Dom Giordano spoke with Pennsylvania State Senator Dominic Pileggi on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.
Mike Resnick, the mayor's public safety director, says overtime savings in other areas within the fire department may allow them to either reduce brownouts or end them outright.
That means the law requiring voters to show ID cards is dead unless the Pennsylvania Supreme Court steps in.
Pennsylvania's Attorney General now says she will turn over evidence in the sting operation that ensnared several prominent Philadelphia Democrats to Philadelphia's District Attorney.
During an event organized by the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition, six holocaust survivors or family members of survivors took part, one by one, in lighting electronic candles to remember the millions who lost their lives as the result of Nazi atrocities.
The city charter requires that departmental regulations and notices of meetings be published in local newspapers. That charter dates from the early 1950s, so of course there's no mention of the Internet.
Christine Brann, of Hershey, Pa. (at microphone in photo), is the mother of a young son with a severe form of epilepsy. She believes medical marijuana is the only course of treatment left to her son.
Chris Stigall spoke with State Representative Daryl Metcalfe about Second Amendment Action Day, which is taking place tomorrow in Harrisburg, and a potential Senate bill that would allow wine and beer to be sold in supermarkets and convenience stores.
From 2009 tp 2013, people who used mass transit to get to work were allowed to use up to $245 of pre-tax income per month to offset that cost. But at the end of 2013, the benefit was reduced by about $100 per month.
The battle of words is heating up between Marjorie Margolies and Daylin Leach, each vying to replace Allyson Schwartz in Congress.
Robert Kerns is being charged by the Pennsylvania attorney general with rape and sexual assault of a female paralegal, in a case that had been earlier filed and then abandoned by the Montgomery County DA.
