Philadelphia City Council Schedules Neighborhood Hearings On City's Next Budget
City Council has announced its plans for public hearings on the mayor's proposed spending plan -- and they're taking it on the road.
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City Council has announced its plans for public hearings on the mayor's proposed spending plan -- and they're taking it on the road.
New Jersey voters support same-sex marriage by a margin of 57 to 37 percent, according to a survey conducted by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
She says she is trying to make a point about proposed legislation that would accord human rights and protections to a woman's eggs.
Janet Manion is chairman of the Travis Manion Foundation, which she created in honor of her son, a US Marine lieutenant from Doylestown killed in Iraq.
Governor Chris Christie continues to fare well in the latest New Jersey poll of voters, but Republicans looking for him to join Mitt Romney on a potential presidential ticket might not be pleased with the results of a new Quinnipiac survey.
No new taxes: that's the pledge -- for now -- from the Nutter administration.
With cuts in government funding over the last several years, Community College of Philadelphia is proposing tying salary increases over the final three years of a five-year proposal to city and state funding.
Poll director Larry Eichel doesn't see those findings -- a desire to lower taxes and yet preserve services -- as contradictory.
All 538 districts statewide were given the option, as a cost cutting alternative. More than 85 percent agreed.
As voters head to the polls in Michigan, today, there are two mainly overlooked factors that could make this a night of upheaval.
A key state Senator says he wants to eliminate all of the cuts for higher education that Governor Tom Corbett has proposed in his new budget.
Councilman Henon is now asking people in his district to report nuisance properties and absentee landlords. His website has a map of properties of homes that have multiple license and inspection violations.
Top city attorneys are now trying to figure out if a former Philadelphia police officer convicted last week of murder should be allowed to keep his pension.
During budget hearings last week, state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle continued to pressure Governor Corbett to address transportation funding, as the PennDOT secretary expressed concerns about Pennsylvania's aging bridges.
A penny costs more than two cents to make; a nickel, more than 11. Mint spokesman Tom Jurkowsky says, that just is not sustainable.
