Philadelphia July 4th Fireworks Too Late For Youngsters, Some Complain
"There's no reason why they can't do it at 9, when it gets dark," says one woman we spoke with.
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"There's no reason why they can't do it at 9, when it gets dark," says one woman we spoke with.
Word of a cheating scandal in Atlanta schools got Pennsylvania state rep Michael McGeehan thinking: what ever happened to a similar case in Philadelphia?
Since 1965, Pennsylvania has received more than $160 million from the federal government to acquire land that, according to the funding, must be used for public purposes in perpetuity.
Citizens Bank has donated $200,000 to the project, called "How We Fish," which reflects the old saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
On the last day of All-Star voting, Mayor Michael Nutter continued his push to get Phillies' centerfielder Shane Victorino into the All-Star Game.
Medicaid is a key part of President Obama's health care reform law, and a new study shows that it does help to make people's lives better.
New Jersey State Senate President Steve Sweeney concedes he may have gone a little over the top in characterizing Governor Chris Christie as a "bastard" in a published interview after Christie line-item vetoed hundreds of millions of dollars from the new state budget.
Parx casino continues to wear the crown as Pennsylvania's leading casino for slots play, according to revenue figures for the fiscal year that ended last week.
Mayor Michael Nutter has relaunched the management tool and held the administration's first public review meeting on Wednesday.
Last week's budget cuts from Trenton could leave financially distressed urban areas like Camden in serious trouble.
Mayor Nutter's original managing director, Camille Barnett, created PhillyStat as a way to hold department heads accountable for tracking problems and complaints and dealing with them.
With its fate as a state agency threatened like never before, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is reporting record numbers for the just-concluded fiscal year.
Local food banks say they're still waiting for $2 million in funding from the Delaware River Port Authority, approved by the agency more than a year and a half ago but subsequently put on hold.
For one hundred local high schoolers, summer in the city means an internship at Philadelphia City Hall. The program got underway with a greeting from the mayor.
One step removed from the incredible shrinking School District state aid package, the mayor says the penny-wise approach to education funding is foolish.
