In Philadelphia, A Hope To Keep Elderly Safe and Aware of Impersonators
Philadelphia police and local utilities are planning a public awareness campaign to warn residents of scammers who try to enter homes posing as utility workers.
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Philadelphia police and local utilities are planning a public awareness campaign to warn residents of scammers who try to enter homes posing as utility workers.
Council president Darrell Clarke, who also represents the district where the tower will be located, says there will be meetings for residents to voice concerns.
Congressman Bob Brady, who heads Philadelphia's Democratic party, says a line has already formed of people vying for Bill Green's at-large seat.
Having a doctor's appointment over the Internet, via Skype or similar services, may be more common in a few years, according to local health care experts who testified today at a City Council hearing on the future of telemedicine.
Richard North III was sentenced to three years' probation. He has already paid restitution of more than $62,000 and written a letter of apology to Councilman Bobby Henon.
Philadelphia inspector-general Amy Kurland says an investigation found that Danella Construction Co. overbilled the city and PGW for materials.
Within days of the collapse, Mayor Nutter announced new restrictions on how contractors in Philadelphia obtain demolition permits.
City Council president Darrell Clarke got fellow lawmakers to agree to a plan that would recover money sent to the school district by selling some unused school buildings to developers.
On May 17th, a city-sponsored job fair for ex-offenders was abruptly canceled when thousands of applicants swarmed the Municipal Services Building.
Mayor Michael Nutter says he's not yet sure whether he'll sign off on a City Council plan to change the way water rates are set in Philadelphia.
City Council gets a C-minus. And the state legislature gets a "D" in a report card from a coalition of groups led by Public Citizens for Children and Youth.
City Council closed its 2013 legislative session with one key matter unresolved: whether to allow advertising on public school properties -- to benefit the cash-starved district.
After months of contentious negotiations, City Council approved -- and Mayor Nutter plans to sign -- a bill that creates what's called a Land Bank.
Councilman David Oh believes that since state lawmakers don't have to resign to run for mayor, city elected officials shouldn't have to, either.
A City Council committee has okayed a major change in the city's Business Income and Receipts Tax, but any final vote may not come for many months.
Mayor Nutter vetoed a bill that would require a zoning variance for any new medical offices in the northeast section of the city. But City Council quickly overrode the veto.
City Council members have reached what officials are calling an "historic" agreement to rein in a longstanding Philadelphia problem: how to dispose of tens of thousands of vacant properties and lots.
Philadelphia school district chief operating officer Fran Burns told Council's Rules Committee that passage of the bill doesn't guarantee that the district will follow through on putting ads in schools.
Tracey Jordan of Southwest Philadelphia (left) says auto shops are popping up all over that section of the city -- on residential blocks.
City clean-up crews in Philadelphia may soon have the authority to clip the locks on fenced-in vacant lots that are left in disrepair.
Mayor Nutter on Thursday transmitted to City Council a bill to sell the underground garage to a Chicago firm called InterPark for nearly $30 million. But the measure was never formally introduced, and Nutter's spokesman Mark McDonald says that pushed the deal to next year.
The sponsor of the plan, councilman-at-large David Oh, said the 60-year old "resign to run" provision of the city charter simply does not work.
"The Upper Northeast is overloaded with medical practices, and the new zoning code pretty much allows anything to be turned medical," said Councilman Brian O'Neill.
3-D printers create physical objects by depositing layer upon layer of a plastic substance that hardens. And they are coming down in price.
Councilmembers complained to school district CFO Matthew Stanski (left) that the district keeps them in the dark each year about budget woes until the last possible minute.
