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It seems that Democratic Party leaders in New Jersey are abandoning their hopes of finding a more popular politician to take on incumbent governor Chris Christie, and are now coalescing around the only announced candidate.
A new Quinnipiac University poll shows that voters say, by a 51-to-31 percent margin, that the governor does not deserve to be re-elected.
On Tuesday, Mayor Nutter fired a city worker implicated in a probe by the city's Board of Ethics of City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown.
When Mayor Nutter last year announced pay raises and work rule changes -- including the right to furlough -- on nonunionized workers, he included the members of Local 2186.
Ethics board executive director Shane Creamer says these include reporting violations, excess contributions received by her campaign committee, and improper handling of contributions.
The Pennsylvania public school advocate group "Action United" filed the complaint after, the group said, its analysis of the plan showed that schools slated for closing disproportionately serve African-American, low income, and disabled students.
"I think, increasingly, Council members will see that it was not the path to go," Mayor Nutter says.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has heard arguments on whether the Christie administration can reorganize an independent agency into being less independent.
Several conservative lawmakers have introduced a package of bills to outlaw compulsory union membership, but the odds are against Pennsylvania becoming the next right-to-work battleground state.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono has garnered another endorsement from a county party organization.
Stakeholders in the big professional bike race held in Philadelphia every June are trying to figure out whether they can still stage this year's race, one of cycling's biggest one-day events in the United States.
As Congress considers strict gun control legislation, Vice President Joe Biden took to Google+ Thursday to hear what some of what the social network's users have to say about the Obama administration's push for new laws.
A source familiar with the situation says that as of Wednesday, Fumo was hospitalized in stable condition in the intensive care unit of a Kentucky hospital and apparently needs heart bypass surgery.
The debate within City Council chambers was heated.
US defense secretary Leon Panetta was expected to announce today that American women will be allowed by policy onto the front lines of combat. Local vetarans, including Aronda Smith, think it's a good move.
