Philadelphia To Ban Felon Question On Job Applications
Philadelphia will soon become the latest U.S. city to "ban the box," prohibiting questions about a person's criminal record on job applications.
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Philadelphia will soon become the latest U.S. city to "ban the box," prohibiting questions about a person's criminal record on job applications.
Philadelpha mayor Michael Nutter hopes he isn't shuffling off to Buffalo -- because of his bet with the mayor of that city over the Flyers-Sabres playoff.
The Garden State is spending $2.1 million on pothole repair this season, which includes a three-month lease of a half-dozen specially equipped trucks that do quickie patch work.
Russell Davis is under investigation for possible financial improprieties.
The 10-week-old, six-pound Vietnamese micro potbellied pig is named "Steve," and owner Brian Maguire wants the township to return him.
A federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Gloucester Township public works employee Steven Brodie Jr., who says he was taunted by two colleagues because of his race and the township did nothing about it.
Philadelphia City Council today passed a bill to close a loophole in the city's campaign financing regulations that allowed campaign donors to give more than the legal limit to city candidates.
Hope Moffett, the Philadelphia public school teacher who was once confined to a "rubber room," is going public again with her criticism of the School District of Philadelphia.
Council unanimously approved developer Robert Ambrosi's plans for a combination hotel-condo-retail complex in Old City, at 4th and Race Streets, the site of the former Pincus Brothers Maxwell clothing factory.
Philadelphia City Council today gave its final OK to what would be the city's first "upscale" billiards parlor. But the project promises to quickly end up in court.
With Earth Day right around the corner, recycling was the theme as a number of firms set up shop for the Philadelphia Recycling Industries Congress.
A group seeking to place a casino near the historic battlefield was among the losing applicants today as the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board awarded the state's last currently available casino license to a resort near Pittsburgh.
The state House Wednesday passed and sent to the governor a bill that would repeal a requirement that sprinklers be a part of new home construction.
Should you have to pay a bag fee if you take a flight and your luggage doesn't? Passengers at Philadelphia International Airport seem quite pleased with new rules being considered by the government.
State comptroller Matthew Boxer's finding that thousands of white-collar state workers get $700 annual allowances for clothing, paid in a lump sum, without the need to produce a single receipt. Half of the workers are not subject to any clothing requirement at all.
