Convention Perspective: Headed To The RNC
There's nothing I love more than the big events that come around every four years: the Olympic Games, the World Cup, and my personal favorite the American political conventions!
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There's nothing I love more than the big events that come around every four years: the Olympic Games, the World Cup, and my personal favorite the American political conventions!
A week after a state court judge refused to block Pennsylvania's voter ID law, the Commonwealth responded to the ACLU's request for a swift appeal, saying a hearing date in mid-October would be ideal.
Some call it controversial, but both political leaders and many educators are calling it necessary.
A West Philadelphia community group is suing the City of Philadelphia and Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell for moving the group out of a recreation center.
NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg calls it a "reverse Robin Hood" plan -- taking from the middle class to give tax breaks to the wealthy.
With less than three months until the elections, the focus has shifted to Pennsylvania, a critical swing state in November.
A Montgomery County lawmaker is pushing legislation designed to take guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them by putting them behind bars for a longer period of time.
PennDOT said they gave Viviette Applewhite, 93, a non-driver photo ID even though she did not have the required Social Security card, because she fell within one of the agency's unwritten exceptions. So what are these exceptions? And who can qualify?
Newly released federal numbers put New Jersey's unemployment rate at 9.8 percent, a full 1½ percent above the national average and continuing as the highest rate in the tri-state.
President Obama's lead has been whittled down to six points in the Keystone State, 44-percent to 38-percent, half of what it was in June.
The University of Pennsylvania did the first ever national survey to find out how Americans feel about campaigns using their profile data to target them politically.
"This decision by Judge Simpson is dripping in political partisanship," says Jerry Mondesire, the president of the Pennsylvania NAACP.
Over the last six years, topics that have taken center stage have changed.
A Pennsylvania judge isn't stopping a tough new voter identification law from going into effect.
Now that the presidential battle lines are drawn, the question of who will win the favor of independents in the fall election could be the critical one.
