Mayor Nutter’s initiative to get 10,000 Philadelphia teenagers hired for summer jobs—beating last summer’s number of 6,000 working teens—is admirable and ambitious. Teen employment means much […]

Morning Glory Diner booster Jim Cramer will be taping “Mad Money” shows from Villanova today. The tapings will last from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. […]

  Last week, as Philadelphia’s Mayor Nutter held an unprecedented closed-door session with a number of investors looking to raise money to help fix the city’s […]

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The draft is upon us. Day One of the draft, that is. The whole shebang ends in November, I think. Here, from assorted NFL swamis, […]

The NFL draft is a bore. I remember it used to be fun, when I was a kid. The TV production was slightly amateurish; it […]

Northeast Philly State Senator Mike Stack isn’t the highest-profile candidate in the running for Tom Corbett’s seat–that honor would go to Allyson Schwartz, or Joe […]

Today, the first guns will go off for the Penn Relays, which each year draw the country’s top high school, college, professional, and masters track […]

Ah, the perils of the paid-gig speaking tour. Talking to a high school in Grosse Point, Michigan–Romney territory–Santorum received an apparently empty bomb threat via […]

The NRA is sponsoring a gun show in Harrisburg…where it won’t sell guns. Vendors will be allowed to display firearms — including AR-15s and other […]

Philadelphia police charged 18-year-old Ciarra Ryan with simple assault after she was accused of punching Olivia Nutter in the face after a track meet in East […]

The Delco Times reports: “The Rhode Island medical examiner’s office is trying to determine whether a body found in Providence is that of  student Sunil […]

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The ACLU today said it is suing the city of Norristown, whose cops last year reportedly threatened to have a resident evicted by her landlord […]