Council Gives Preliminary Approval To 1.34% Tax Rate
Philadelphia's controversial new property tax system is now a step closer to reality, following a preliminary vote Wednesday in City Council.
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Philadelphia's controversial new property tax system is now a step closer to reality, following a preliminary vote Wednesday in City Council.
"I know too many LGBT pioneers who don't have the money and who are almost homeless," Mark Segal says. "This is place for them to love with dignity in their own community."
It's a big weekend for the Alex's Lemonade Stands cancer charity, and Eastern State Penitentiary will be serving its visitors prison slop!
Philadelphia officials are hoping to expand a new model for providing after-school and summer activities for youth.
About two dozen people, determined to make their voices heard, boarded a bus in North Philadelphia for the ride to Harrisburg.
Merion Golf Club is hosting its first U.S. Open in more than 30 years and it's proving to be a logistical challenge for the entire community
These two brothers, 15 and 12, are looking for a family that will keep them together.
"We want to take that big abstract number -- 700,000 -- and show these are real faces, these are real lives," said one demonstration leader.
The traveling Vietnam Memorial, "The Wall That Heals," was escorted into town by the Nam Knights, a motorcycle club honoring fallen veterans and police officers.
That's according to a survey of more than 1,100 adults conducted by Visiting Angels, one of the country's largest in-home senior care companies.
Charter school operators were putting their heads together to help students with learning disabilities after they graduate, and were swapping ideas at a forum at Children's Hospital.
The Career Wardrobe is a non-profit that knows the power of a suit. Tomorrow the group will honor a woman tomorrow who is helping to fashion a future for the women around her.
The Gloucester County DREAM Park says it will be accepting items such as diapers, baby food, cleaning supplies, horse blankets, vet wrap, horse feed, dog food, and cat food.
The hit-making producer, songwriter, and impresario will receive the award in Philadelphia at a gala dinner on November 19th.
Hamels, whose foundation is providing $50,000 for special programs in Philadelphia public schools, says it's all about making a difference.
It's been five years since Tara and Dwayne Cuff received the devastating news that their eleven-year-old daughter Trava drowned in a swimming accident.
A group of artists are selling their goods inside an historic room of the Philadelphia Art Alliance, for the benefit of the cultural foundation.
Local Hispanic leaders delivered "Binders full of Latinos" to Governor Tom Corbett's Philadelphia office Friday.
City officials are making final preparations to re-do its job fair for Philadelphia ex-offenders, less than two weeks after a similar event was shut down because of the huge turnout.
Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz headlines a charity event Sunday to raise money for college-bound public school students.
The mural, titled "Legendary," towers six stories high and stretches 60 feet wide.
The elite team will be riding in memory of firefighters who died in the line of duty and to raise awareness about firefighter health issues.
The Bell "Huey" is a helicopter that Vietnam vets are very familiar with. It will be part of the National Constitution Center's exhibit about the year 1968.
An archdiocese spokesman says church members will likely receive letters in the mail along with announcements from the pulpit at weekend masses.
Everyday life can be a real struggle for local families battling childhood cancer but a Montgomery County non-profit organization raises money to help make it a little easier.
