Philadelphia's Bike-Sharing Program Moves Forward
The city now has an official web page for the bike share program, at phila.gov/bikeshare.
Watch CBS News
The city now has an official web page for the bike share program, at phila.gov/bikeshare.
A judge has ordered the City of Philadelphia to pay more money into the health and welfare fund for Firefighters' Local 22. The union had sought the emergency arbitration hearing, saying the fund was running out of money.
Everett Gillison, deputy mayor for public safety, says the spike in homicides, combined with the raw emotional impact of the Trayvon Martin case, pushed the Nutter administration to verbalize its tactics.
The Nutter Administration has reversed course and on Friday, released hundreds of pages of documents related to last month's fatal building collapse on Market Street.
Mayor Michael Nutter is promising answers to why the company clearing debris at the site of the collapse has reportedly brought in an asbestos removal firm even after the original demolition company certified there was no asbestos.
Abandoned bicycles locked to bike poles are being tagged with a notice that on July 11th, the locks will be broken and they will become city property.
The city was expecting about 1,000 people to show up, but about three times that number were standing in a line that wrapped around the Municipal Services Building, across from City Hall.
Battalion chief Joseph Schulle won the seat of president in a decisive election victory over the incumbent, Bill Gault, who has held the post since July 2009.
But even as the American public becomes more accepting of the LGBT community, Pennsylvania has been slow to make a move when it comes to same-sex marriage or to expand LGBT civil rights.
"The budget, in its current form, simply cannot support the services provided this year," SRC chair Pedro Ramos told Philadelphia lawmakers.
The Nutter administration says the controversial fire department policy of station "brownouts" will continue even if City Council appropriates extra money to eliminate them.
Clarena Tolson, the longtime Philadelphia streets commissioner, is now the revenue commissioner.
This is National Volunteer Week, and here in Philadelphia the importance of ordinary people who respond to emergencies took on special meaning in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings just one week ago.
Robin Jones, 50, avoided jail time following her guilty plea in the wake of a car crash last September in which she rammed a city-owned car into a building at 13th and Hamilton Streets.
Joan Markman, Mayor Nutter's chief integrity officer, finds herself in a political firestorm after she injected herself into a Philadelphia Historical Commission debate over a coffee shop near her home.
In both Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania, tax deadlines have been extended by one day due to government web site problems.
The Nutter administration is standing firm in its decision to bar reporters and the public from a meeting this week with Wall Street investors, despite a protest from several media outlets.
Even the sponsor acknowledges the measure is likely to be challenged in court.
The chambers of Philadelphia City Council were packed to the rafters with angry union members as mayor Michael Nutter prepared to unveil his new budget.
You probably pass by works of art honoring famous people every day in this area, and many of them you know. But there are others...
Mayor Michael Nutter is asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take up the question of whether he can impose a new contract on the city's blue-collar workers' union.
McDaniel, the former campaign treasurer for Reynolds Brown, was recently fired from his city-paid airport job after the city Board of Ethics identified numerous reporting irregularities by McDaniel in the campaign's required city filings.
The City of Philadelphia says the company that makes Yuengling beer owes $6.6 million in back taxes.
Wednesday was the deadline set by Mayor Nutter for the blue-collar city workers' union to respond to what he calls his "final offer" in the long-running contract talks.
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.
