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The mayor says, why dont you try a 9 propertytax increase . Youve talked about selling commercial tax liens. There are other ideas out there. If you had to guess what the makeup is come june, whats in there . I think therell be a combination. The reality is, is that the commercial lien is a onetime revenue stream. But were basically dealing with a oneterm issue, because if the governor is successful in some aspects of this budget, theres gonna be significant revenue coming from the state to the ...

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Pasquale T. Deon Sr. is retiring from the SEPTA Board after 24 years as its chairman. Deon, a Bucks County Republican who joined the board in 1995, is known as a consensus builder with solid connections among Pennsylvania lawmakers. The transit authority rolled out a new fare system, reconstruction part of the Market-Frankford Line and began selling station naming rights during his tenure.

Negotiations continue Friday in hopes of a deal that would end the threat of a SEPTA strike that could happen on Wednesday.

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services this week announced a change in Medicaid — also known as Medical Assistance in Pennsylvania — that will allow…

Where is the oversight that keeps the agency from throwing taxpayer money at projects that don’t make transit more useful?

Diversity dean lecturing a sitting federal judge whos a serious person on the , quote, harms that he caused. and that video got us thinking about the state of colleges and universities in this country. why are there so many diversity deans and why are they like this? tommy lee is a former diversity director at dansa college. he was removed from her role for questioning the schools anti-racist policies and she joins us now. wesley, thank you so much for coming on . >> so tell your story, if you w...

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Pennsylvania Democrat Bob Casey could get a challenge from Republican David McCormick.

The former CEO of Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund with $150 billion in assets, resigned from his job to run for the Senate seat left open by U.S. Sen. Pat...