Can failure of Prop 8 bring same-sex marriage to Pennsylvania? Not quite
California’s case is unique – and Pennsylvania offers so few rights to same-sex couples that a ruling on equal status isn’t relevant, U Penn law Prof. Tobias Wolff said.
Tom Corbett’s budget is good for PA residents, bad for college students
The Pennsylvania governor continues to stick to his word. His proposed state budget would not increase state taxes, but it would dramatically decrease the aid given to PA’s state universities. Can you say tuition hike?
Susan G. Komen reverses course, restores funding to Planned Parenthood
The women’s organization originally pulled funding to Planned Parenthood because it doesn’t fund other organizations that are under investigation. Public outcry seems to have changed their mind.
We here at the IRS see the world as five kinds of taxpayers
We at the Internal Revenue Service study returns all year and read your life in numbers, like old Scottish women read it in tea leaves and Facebook reads in in “Likes.”
So which voting district am I in?
That’s the question a lot of people in Pennsylvania are asking now. After the state Supreme Court invalidated the new maps, drawn after the Census, the state Speaker has filed a lawsuit.
Philadelphia Fed president says interest rates may need to rise sooner
Charles Plosser says that, if the economy keeps improving as it has recently, interest rates should be raised this year, or by the middle of next year at the latest.
How would you spend $20,000 you got for ratting out a murderer?
Philadelphia’s Mayor has put a $20,000 bounty out for murder convictions, which made us wonder what the best ways to blow the cash in and around the city would be. Here’s five ideas to help you go out with a bang. (no pun intended)
Philadelphia Councilwoman wants to extend bar hours; time to party up!
Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown is proposing a bill to extend bar hours to 3 a.m. The extra revenue from those liquor sales would help Philadelphia’s schools, she said. I’ll drink to that!
City Council proposes bill to extend Philadelphia bar hours to 3 a.m.
According to officials, the bill could produce an additional $5 million, in addition to the $42 million that liquor taxes generated in 2010. What are the negatives to the proposal, though?
7 “American Classics” for your next SOTU drinking game (if you must)
While rumors of what would be said at last night’s State of the Union Address, some of you derelicts planned differently. Instead, you even made a game out of it! And for this we salute you.
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