An 11th-hour adjustment will give Pennsylvania recipients of a soon-to-close public welfare program one more month of benefits. The state budget will eliminate the general assistance program, which provides about $200 a month in cash assistance to about 70,000 very low-income clients. About... Read more...
The pursuit of The Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com began in October with an unsolicited offer by two businessmen with South Jersey roots, Lewis Katz and George E. Norcross III. It ended Monday with Katz, Norcross, and four other local investors paying $55 million to acquire the d... Read more...
Mumia Abu-Jamal“Wrapped in the sweet, false escape of dreams, I hear the unmistakable sounds of meat being beaten by blackjack, of bootfalls, yells, curses; and it merges into the mind’s movie-making machine, evoking distant memories of some of the Philadelphia Police Department’s grea... Read more...
Before Miriam Boss got food stamps, the 87-year-old Pennsylvanian was living on only her $1,000 monthly Social Security check. She says making ends meet was always a struggle, and she often went hungry. Now, Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett wants to enact a new policy that would disqualify tho... Read more...
Tell your lawmakers the truth about capital punishment! Innocent people on death row! The Pa Bar Association reported that we are at risk of executing an innocent person - this is not a risk that we should be willing to take. Six people have been released from Pa’s death row due to inno... Read more...
Umm... But I hope they know THIS is still going down though... #FreeMumia Prosecutors have called off their 30-year battle to execute former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal for murdering a white police officer, putting to an end the racially charged case that became a major battleground in the ... Read more...
Police in Philadelphia say four men were killed and three others wounded in shootings at five city bars over the weekend. 31-year-old Mikal Grant and a 42-year-old man were shot at about 1 a.m. Saturday in Scotty's Bar in South Philadelphia, according to police. Both men were taken to the Hospital ... Read more...
We can only hope that the recent surge in American communities voting to end water fluoridation is an omen to the eventual end of this abominable and toxic practice across the entire country. A recent report in the The Mercuryexplains that officials in Pottstown, Penn., a northwest exurb of Philadel... Read more...
Cant blame Bush for this one... Last week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, set up disaster recovery centers in the area for those in need after recent storms. Those centers were overwhelmed this weekend, prompting FEMA to break claims into two categories, food vouchers or... Read more...